Ohio Barners: Any Updates on the Environmental Cataclysm Train Wreck?

[Bill]

The manufacturer of the chemical seems to be down on burning it, yet that's exactly what the responders did, started burning it. Couldn't hazmat equipped folks with vacuum trucks have been brought in to try and minimize the damage?

Supposedly fish and livestock are dying even up into Canada, and hundreds of miles downstream in the river.

[Onebadcad]

No need to worry, weak incompetent in-over-his-head mayor pete from a tiny smallest town is all over it:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cri...-takes-twitter

[MikeB]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

The manufacturer of the chemical seems to be down on burning it, yet that's exactly what the responders did, started burning it. Couldn't hazmat equipped folks with vacuum trucks have been brought in to try and minimize the damage?

Supposedly fish and livestock are dying even up into Canada, and hundreds of miles downstream in the river.

"Avoid temperatures above 400 C"

Sounds like hell.

[Louie Detroit]

Petey Buttplug is demonstrating what a useless fanook he is once again.

[Torqaholic]

Watched a video on it this morning. Saw claims that people outside the evacuation zone were talking about dead livestock and pets.

It's far more than just vinyl chloride. There's at least three other toxic substances involved. I won't even begin to list the substances created when this stuff burns either alone or in combination. The byproducts are heavier than air. What goes up due to heat rising must come down when it cools. If your home is downwind of this thing your best hope is to be on vacation. Preferably upwind (I hear Indiana is nice this time of year ).

[Loco Vette]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

The manufacturer of the chemical seems to be down on burning it, yet that's exactly what the responders did, started burning it. Couldn't hazmat equipped folks with vacuum trucks have been brought in to try and minimize the damage?

The car that contained the vinyl chloride was damaged in such a fashion during the crash that the pressure relief valves could not do their jobs. As the first responders could not put out the fire, that set up the potential for a very bad situation called a BLEVE - Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. This is similar to why a MOAB is such a devastating weapon. The first responders chose the lesser of the available evils.

Video on BLEVEs:
BLEVE Discussion

[MadInNc]

First Ohio



Now Texas!

[Bill]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...es-derailment/

Video Shows Norfolk Southern Train with Axle(s) on Fire Miles Before Derailment. Evidence Suggests at Least 40 Minutes Before Derailment
By Brian Lupo
Published February 14, 2023 at 12:15pm

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train hauling carcinogenic chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio, sending plumes of dangerous gas into the atmosphere during a “controlled release” burn. The main chemical mentioned in reports, vinyl chloride, is used to make PVC. Exposure to vinyl chloride is known to cause certain cancers, according to Cancer.gov:

Vinyl chloride exposure is associated with an increased risk of a rare form of liver cancer (hepatic angiosarcoma), as well as primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), brain and lung cancers, lymphoma, and leukemia.

The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday about additional chemicals that were disclosed as being a part of this derailment and the impact its having thus far on local wildlife. Fish and aquatic life are turning up dead in local creeks and rivers that feed into the Ohio River and eventually, the Mississippi River. Most residents, however, have been told they can return safely to their homes.

TGP will be releasing more articles specifically focused around the preventability of this accident, but first, the direct cause needs to be clear: shocking video released by the Post-Gazette shows CCTV footage of the Norfolk Southern train moments before it derailed. In this video, the axles on one car appear to be on fire. This is confirmed by a photo shown to The Gateway Pundit in color and with a timestamp. The timestamp on the photo suggests this axle was on fire at least 40 minutes prior to the reported 9pm derailment.

Video from @PittsburghPG shows CCTV footage of one of the cars on fire miles before the derailment.

When was the crew alerted from the hot-box detectors that there was a major issue with one of the cars? It seems they began to break after the E Palestine hot-box, but possibly… https://t.co/UOfugBuJux pic.twitter.com/889tNf8k8F

— CannCon (@CannConActual) February 14, 2023


According to the article from the Post-Gazette, a retired Norfolk Southern engineer claims that a sensor should have picked up that the axles were overheated and/or on fire and immediately shut down the train to figure out the problem:

On the railroad tracks in front of Fresh Mark, there is an instrument called a hot box detector, which scans the temperature of the passing train axles to ensure they are not overheated. If the device finds a problem, a defect detection alert sounds over the train radio.

Detecting a defect so hot that it would appear to be on fire would require the crew to stop the train immediately and inspect the problem, said Scott Wilcox, a retired Norfolk Southern engineer who worked on the Fort Wayne line, where trains travel between Chicago and the big railyard in the Beaver County town of Conway.

Hot box detectors are typically spaced every 10 to 20 miles apart, Mr. Wilcox said. On this particular track, the next detector after Salem was in East Palestine. The train would have passed that one less than a mile before derailing on Feb. 3.

If the train crew heard an alert shortly before braking, it is likely that the warning came from the detector in East Palestine.

As The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, the NTSB and, specifically its Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, have been relatively quiet regarding this derailment on their website. There is no mention of it on the News Release page. The last update was January 26th, 2023 regarding the bridge in Pennsylvania that collapsed.

Buttigieg did publish a Tweet late last night. A full 10 days since the derailment.

USDOT has been supporting the investigation led by The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Our Federal Rail Administration and Pipelines and Hazardous Materials teams were onsite within hours of the initial incident and continue to be actively engaged.

— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) February 14,

Every chicken this woman owned.....dead:

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[Rob]

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[Rob]

EPA releases manifest summarizing deadly chemicals that were released in East Palestine, Ohio:

- Three cars of Diethylene Glycol
- One car of Polypropyl Gylcol
- One car of Propylene Glycol
- Two cars of Polyethylene
- Two cars of Polyvinyl
- Five cars of Petroleum

[Bill]

https://babylonbee.com/news/ilhan-om...ts-in-america/

Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support For East Palestine After Learning It’s In America
U.S. · Feb 14, 2023 ·


WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Ilhan Omar has canceled a planned rally to support the victims of the East Palestine chemical spill after learning East Palestine is actually in America.

"Oh... East Palestine is just a small town in Ohio? Is that where all the white people live?" said a disappointed Omar to her brother while they were out on a Valentine's Day date. "Who cares about Ohio? Some trains did something. Who cares?"

Sources say the planned rally was going to raise funds for the thousands of people who are getting sick and dying after hostile forces burned thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals and poisoned the water for miles around. "That sounds like something the evil Zionists would do," said Omar. "I was looking forward to leading a 'Death to Israel' chant! Bummer!"

At publishing time, Omar had blamed the train derailment and ensuing ecological disaster on the Jews.

[m and t's77]

A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems in the little town of Evan's City, Pennsylvania. Bouts of insanity in the populace are leading to murder and rioting, until the US Army turns up - and things really start going to hel

[theandies]

But we have a "woke" department of transportation run by a fag. What could possibly go wrong......Oh, ya, big train derailment and chemical spill/fire.

Old buttplug must think "trans" in transportation means drag queens.

[MadInNc]

They’re killing chickens!

[ZipZap]

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[the new me]

Likely the largest U.S. national disaster in history and there's a media blackout. - YouTube

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[MadInNc]

Anybody hear about Tucson yesterday ?

I’d hate to be on a bike riding through that shit

[Bill]

[ptindall]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

Anybody hear about Tucson yesterday ?

I’d hate to be on a bike riding through that shit

Yeah, nitric acid. Truck driver died.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by ptindall

Yeah, nitric acid. Truck driver died.

I wonder if hazmat drivers like that would benefit from having an emergency SCBA kit.....just enough air to slip on a mask and GTFO. We did work one time in a plant where they produced phosgene gas. They issued everyone little detector badges that would change color. Uh, OK, what's the point of this? Well, if your badge changed color, you were certainly going to die, but I guess if you looked down and saw it in time, maybe you could say a short prayer before you literally coughed up your lungs and died horribly.