The head of the national response effort declared that Gale force winds could compel at-sea workers to discard their oil collection efforts in the Gulf of Mexico for two weeks.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen explained the cut-and-run plan in a conference call to reporters as, ‘Realistically, out of an abundance of caution’, but, the Deepwater Horizon well would remain uncapped for ‘14 days’, if that occurred.

Trying to clean up the runaway Deepwater Horizon spill in its 67th day, Hurricane eventualities have become the main concerns for planners.

From the eastern coasts of Honduras and Nicaragua to Mexico’s northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, there’s a tropical wave in the west-central Caribbean kicking up thunderstorms.

There was a 70% chance the system would become a tropical cyclone over the weekend, a storm system that could produce powerful winds, the weather service reported.

Scheduling for a hurricane would entail an emigration of the ruined oil rig’s site once 40-knot winds are predicted to appear within five days, in Washington.

“Were there a coming hurricane, coastal clean-up efforts would also be abandoned in the Gulf. I don’t think anyone wants a vessel out there trying to skim oil”, said Allen.

The attempt to drill a relief well through 4 kilometers of rock to stop the Gulf spill is on target for completion by mid-August, another development proceeded.

But, BP’s stock stumbled anyway over the increasing costs of the adversity and the Company’s incapability to plug the leak, sooner.