Indeed, thick layers of caked mud carved up the streets on Saturday, evidence of the rushing water's movement down the hill and into Lake Superior, and some roads were simply missing.
In a lot of wells I saw that the zone was taking drilling mud, soaking it up and leaving a layer of mud cake across a permeable interval of the wellbore.
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The worst-hit country, the Philippines, began the slow process of clearing up mud and debris Wednesday.
The tidal surges associated with superstorm Sandy and Tropical Storm Irene stirred up mud that killed his shellfish.
When the rains come in April and the Bedunge turns to marsh and then glutinous mud, sending up clouds of malarial mosquitoes, this region is all but cut off from the outside world.
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There were now twenty or so policemen, in small groups bunched up against mud walls, shooting in various directions.
The price of oil, copper, steel, international shipping--even mud--shot up.
Work is slow along the 525-foot-wide route to Umm Qasr's grain elevator, where the Dredge Carolina chews up the mud with its 3, 000 horsepower cutter and suctions out the loosened silt.
The denser mud had been, up until this time, the primary pressure control and was keeping the hydrocarbons in place despite the lack of an adequate cement job at the casing shoe.
If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.
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Dozens of suburbs were submerged and residents are continuing to clean up swathes of mud and debris.
My father grew up in a mud hut in Tamil Nadu, the youngest of 11 children, 9 of whom survived childhood.
But the minute they stopped pumping the mud, the oil came back up.
Staffordshire county council said the divers went into a culvert underneath the road and found blockages created by debris and a build up of silt and mud.
After the most recent, in December, about 120 tonnes of mud and boulders had to be cleared up.
The swirling green mound rises up from a sea of mud and rubble - an extraordinary sight not yet properly visible from the ground.
Wearing white surgical gloves, he dug up a fistful of black mud and held it so that the sunlight caught the telltale blue-orange tint of petroleum.
To make a maintenance appointment, does a client need to wait at home for a 6-hour appointment window, have the technician show up late, and track mud through her freshly-cleaned carpet, no wonder she called to argue about the bill.
Having grown up in a house made of prairie mud bricks, unprotected from dust and grasshopper invasions, the inventor dies a millionaire.
The friction caused by the gas bubble pushing up the pipe and displacing the drilling mud used to control the pressure could have created a static charge that ignited the gas into a fireball.
The takeaway from the evolution of the claim to Award is that you always need to be careful about reaching for the Moon because you could wind up flat on your face in the mud.
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The sea which used to be clear blue was like mud water and it was as if it was boiling up and gaint waves were coimng on to the land.
Dr. DAVID BLACK (Marine Biologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography): About 50 percent of the earth's surface is made up of these big, flat plains of mud we know so little about.
They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and tree roots like ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.
At a construction site in China, however, he once illustrated a concept for a client by stacking up a few bricks and scratching lines in the mud.
When the heavy drilling mud that provides the pressure needed to keep things from coming up the well was removed, first as a test, then as part of a procedure for closing down the well and moving the rig, telltale signs that something was wrong were missed.
And following the intersection of the well bore with those relief wells, they will put heavy mud down there to suppress the pressure of the oil coming up from the reservoir, put a cement plug in and effectively do what I would call a bottom kill, as opposed to the top kill, which was not successful a couple of weeks ago.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
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