It's important that they verify the specific oil well there because you never know what is going to be washing up in Galveston, Texas.
The spill, gushing as much as 60,000 barrels of oil a day, is about 50 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River. Sosnowski said the system would probably become a tropical storm at the least and had the possibility of creating squalls that could disrupt the oil containment and cleanup efforts.
In Texas, officials confirmed Monday that they found a small number of tar balls on beaches in Galveston and nearby Bolivar Peninsula. They were tested and found to be from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
"I think altogether they filled up a couple of buckets full of them; it was not a huge impact," said Jim Suydam, a spokesman for the Texas General Land Office. "We think we'll be able to contain any impact from Deepwater to tar ball pickup on the beach."
