MSNBC is reporting that overnight a small tug boat hit a wellhead in a road-inaccessible marsh located along an inland waterway on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans:

Crews don’t expect to be able to cap the well before 6 p.m. ET, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft told reporters.

“We cannot catch a break,” Deano Bonano, Jefferson Parish emergency management director, said in a note to parish officials.

Can’t catch a  break indeed.

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts was quoted as saying by WWL-TV in New Orleans that “there is a pretty good amount of oil flowing there.” He did not have a more specific estimate.

Jefferson Parish officials said emergency crews were at the site assessing how to deal with the spill.

More to come on this disaster-within-a-disaster-zone, we’re sure.