East Palestine train derailment

[Windigo]

Supposedly here in semi-upstate NY the rain we had today was heavily acidified from what happened in Ohio 

Given the level of smoke coming from the burn off, I would suggest there was some nasty incomplete combustion of the chemical involved.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Burning vinyl chloride produces a lot of nasty byproducts.  Hydrogen chloride is one.  Once an HCL molecule binds with water, it produces hydrochloric acid so acid rain and acidic waterways is to be expected. 

[Gusington]

awesome 

[Groggy]

https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-the-nation/cincinnati-closing-ohio-river-water-intakes-to-prevent-contamination-from-east-palestine-derailment

[Groggy]

So it wasn't the county that declared the water in East Palestine safe. Those results haven't even come in yet.

It was a company contracted by Norfolk Southern.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ohio-train-disaster-water-sampling_n_63ef034be4b022eb3e35e585?92b

[al_infierno]

These symptom descriptions are effing horrifying.  Holy crap.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/slowly-dying-residents-weird-symptoms-weeks-after-train-derailment-and-explosion/news-story/106e190eb81876dc05ac668c0702f775

"My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It's hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I'm drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won't release me to go to work."

[Gusington]

Jesus.

[Windigo]

These symptom descriptions are effing horrifying.  Holy crap.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/slowly-dying-residents-weird-symptoms-weeks-after-train-derailment-and-explosion/news-story/106e190eb81876dc05ac668c0702f775

"My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It's hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I'm drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won't release me to go to work."

Fired because you're sick... that's fucked up!

[Sir Slash]

Truly awful.

[Gusington]

^And highly illegal.

[Sir Slash]

Highly. There ought to be a law.

[W8taminute]

Many peoples' hearts have grown cold.  Absolutely disgusting.

[FarAway Sooner]

A million sarcastic comments are popping into my mind, but I suspect most of them would be misunderstood.  Apparently the East Palestine derailment trumped the Chinese Balloons as the next great threat to America in the news cycle.  Corporations pollute our world in a million different ways--I'm not so sure why this particular train derailment has everybody so exercised.

I wonder what will be next?  A second invasion of Murder Hornets?  Chinese-made cell phone components that might, under very specific circumstances, cause long-term impotence?  Or perhaps a previously undiscovered affiliation between the NHL and anonymous Russian oligarchs?

I get how this is very serious news to the people living near the accident.  Aside from the corporate malfeasance angle, I don't get why it's transfixed the American attention span for so long.

[al_infierno]

Corporations pollute our world in a million different ways--I'm not so sure why this particular train derailment has everybody so exercised.

Have you followed the thread and seen the images of the gigantic plumes of black, toxic smoke spewing into the atmosphere in a massive radius?  This is far from an ordinary example of corporate pollution, this is one of the worst ecological disasters in North American history, if not the worst.

[Sir Slash]

Right. This is kind of like an American version of Chernobyl.