Gusher

The freedom movement started as a trickle and turned into a gusher.

It’s no longer news that on April 20th, the catastrophic explosion of an offshore rig sent an undersea gusher of oil boiling to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. Or that winds, tides and time have overwhelmed efforts to contain a slick the size of Cyprus, spreading globs of emulsified goo to the very edges of the tender marshes and bayous of Plaquemines Parish, and onto the barrier Chandeleur Islands.

The gusher blasted oil into the air for nine days at a rate of 16,000 cubic meters of oil a day before the well was finally capped.