Crews hurried to get back to work on plugging BP's leaky oil well after Tropical Storm Bonnie fizzled, and engineers hoped for a window of clear weather long enough to stop the gusher for good.
But with peak hurricane season starting in early August, chances are the next big storm is right on Bonnie's heels.
"We're going to be playing a cat-and-mouse game for the remainder of the hurricane season," retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Saturday. Sure enough, another disturbance already was brewing in the Caribbean, although forecasters said it wasn't likely to strengthen into a tropical storm.
In the past 10 years, an average of …
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