Weather Suspends BP Relief Well Drillilng

UNDATED (AP) _ The government’s point man for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico says crews drilling a relief well to permanently stop the oil will suspend their work until storms pass.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says the suspension could delay completion of the relief well by two or three days.

Crews will pop in a temporary plug to keep what they’ve drilled so far safe, but they won’t send workers back to land. They have about 30 feet left to drill.

Finishing the new well and sealing the broken one with mud and cement should be the final act of the three-month oil spill drama that has upended the lives of fishermen and others along the Gulf Coast.

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