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Ten oil workers are missing after Tropical Storm Nate raged in the southern gulf of Mexico early Friday. Fox News had the story.
“Unfortunately we are dealing with a tropical storm that is soon to become a hurricane. (FLASH) It is slowly strengthening, a lot of warm water here in the bay of Campeche. Here are the tropical storm models, looks like it's going to make a landfall across eastern portions of Mexico. One of the outliers here brings it up towards Texas.”
WDSU reports - the missing oil workers were trying to escape the storm’s ravages by evacuation.
“The 10 disappeared after being taken off the rig amid high seas stirred up by Tropical Storm Nate. The workers were contracted by Geokinetics, based in Houston, Texas.”
By Friday afternoon the National Hurricane Center announced Nate had slowed to 50 miles an hour -- but it’s still expected to make landfall as early as September 11th.
A meterologist from Atlanta’s WSB notes -- it could have been worse.
“It looks like it's going to go into Mexico. Could ramp up into a hurricane. But earlier this week we were talking about it drifting up into the northern gulf. Looks like that's not going to happen. So no tropical moisture headed our way.”
Meanwhile -- Tropical Storm Maria -- could hit the East Coast of the United States by next week.
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