Anyone know what the fuck's going on in Ohio?
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The derailment was pretty bad to the area around it, and I hadn't heard that the fire still hadn't been contained. I know that the police and news crews were keeping drone flights over the sight to see how things were progressing.
If Norfolk Southern was lying about whether or not it was safe to come back, they're sure as shit putting their own staff in danger because apparently they started running trains within 2-3 minutes of the all clear. You can actually see that the news crews themselves are standing next to the site, so if it's extremely dangerous, even the cowardly journalists aren't taking enough precautions.
I don't trust governments, but I do give some credence to small town governments because normally, if they are going to be corrupt assholes, they don't know how to do it well. This mayor seems to be genuinely out of his league with a disaster like this.
I wouldn't trust the idea that there's no problems with the chemicals seeping into the ground, which they seem to admit got into the waterways themselves. The town is apparently supplied with groundwater, rather than surface water, but I personally wouldn't trust the water supply for a minimum of five years, given how long certain chemicals can last in the ground, and how long it might take for people to notice problems. Especially since I'm not prepared to believe that surface water won't seep into the aquifer.
Frankly, it seems to me like they are trying to say that it's contaminated only within "safe" ranges, but if it were me in that town, I'd be cautious as fuck.
Norfolk Southern gave a press brief where they appear to be saying that if they didn't blow up the car, it would have been a much more serious explosion, which (frankly) isn't a completely unreasonable idea. The rep explained that the fire on one of these hazardous chemical cars was burning from a relief valve, which was good because it was burning off the chemical, and wasn't going to cause an explosion. Then the fire suddenly stopped, but the heat kept going up, which suggested a possible serious explosion was imminent because the relief valve failed. That's when they made the decision to make a controlled demolition.
Uh, that's the exact opposite of a "controlled release".
Still better than a BLEVE.
It's the cheap improvement on BLEVE, but the proper way to do it would be to insulate the containers and put the fire out.
Have you checked recently to see what passes for 'man' & 'woman'?
Words are meaningless.
- Vote Biden yesterday!
But people want it to be covered like Alex Jones instead of Walter Cronkite.
I've seen more than enough movies to know that when a town is evacuated completely, and there's all kinds of special effects and news reports showing how "dangerous" it is to even approach , that means there's either aliens there or a zombie outbreak.
But it's never what they say it is.
<taps head>
Ah ah! Rule #2: Double tap.
Rasputin survived worse. Empty the magazine.
"Til it goes 'click'!"
You forgot some options, fren. Like vampires or wights or spiders or Wendigos...
or vampiric wendigo spiders.
From what I understand, there was a massive train derailment and the train was carrying hazardous chemicals. It caught on fire and officials tried doing a controlled burn to prevent a massive explosion, it may still be burning today. There have been anecdotes about chickens and fish in the area dying, but 100% of those reports are from green-type communists so there's no way to know how much they're exaggerating.
Well, if you were an ecoterrorist, wouldn't you also report your wife's death? It makes sense that they would be the first to know about animals dying.
the parasites rubbing their hands together like birdman.
Burning polyvinyl chloride isn't good for you, but calling a bog standard plastic a "megatoxin" is retarded.
It's Ohio, so it must be contained.