@Leaflord This is going to kill a lot of people in the next year, even more people beyond the year. They've probably been exposed to a medium term fatal amount of several chemicals concurrently. I promise you this is worse than the guys on 4chan are saying.
Anything this cloud falls on might as well be dead earth.
@Leaflord@SpaceElf any time people bring it up I’m tempted to joke “HEY MAN ALL THE OHIO MEMES WERE PREDICTIVE PROGRAMMING“ but I worry someone will be ‘tarded enough to believe it
@RupertvonRipp@Leaflord This isn't going to just be gone in a week. This will stay in the atmosphere and if the wind changes and you didn't take action, your health is going to pay for it.
@Leaflord@SpaceElf ive asked half a dozen people irl if they've heard of this and everyone says no. they are squelching this terribly one so it must be awful.
Are you downwind? Consult maps of rivers and groundwater. Then make an educated guess of how fucked you are. This will be a problem several states removed from Ohio.
> as a means of disposal of it (as it was the cheapest solution.)
actually I believe (just from skimming the twitter thread) that those tanks were in danger of detonating due to surrounding fires so the "quick and dirty" disposal option was to puncture them and burn the contents in a controlled manner in a nearby trench
@NailBomb They've burnt the vinyl chloride as a means of disposal of it (as it was the cheapest solution.) this produced phosgene among other chemicals. Phosgene is a prolifically harmful chemical that will combine with water vapor to produce significant acid rain.
@Marshall1Banana@SpaceElf oopsy woopsy the rail company did the exact same fucky wucky the railroaders warned about last year and we puwt out some accidentow phosgene fucky wucks
@SpaceElf I can’t wait for them to start shrieking at anyone who connects the dots between this and negative health trends in the area with all their “uh sweeties you sound exactly like some crazy antivax conspiracy q cultist! Shouldn’t you be blaming the COVID-19 vaccine lol haahahaha lol”
@RupertvonRipp@Leaflord@SpaceElf The cope the “smart” and “trust your experts” faggots go with is that the “controlled burn” was way safer because not drilling a hole in the tanks risked them cooking off and “becoming missiles and then who knows how much damage it would cause so it had to be done!!!!”
2020 really reinforced their follower instincts to an absurd, horriffic degree
@Leaflord@SpaceElf Nah not downwind, I'd be more worried about it traveling the watershed than getting clouded where I'm at. US distances are big, London and Paris are closer together than I am to East Palestine.
@SpaceElf@RustyCrab@Leaflord@RupertvonRipp Please do a big thread on what to do/prepare for. I wanna send it to friends and family that might be affected. US government isn't even talking about this
@RustyCrab@Leaflord@RupertvonRipp Buy goggles, buy respirators, buy water filters, by some base chemicals like baking powder to neutralize PH in water, be careful how you bathe because you could end up doing moderate to severe damage to your skin if this is way worse than i suspect.
Do not go outside if it's raining or swim in outside water bodies for a long while..
@D-Droid@Leaflord@RupertvonRipp@RustyCrab Buy a respirator for fumes. Purchase swiming goggles to protect your eyes. Do not go outside if it's raining and you're on the eastern half of the US. Do not swim in any outdoor water body. Purchase water filters. Be very wary of drinking water sources. Do not drink from wells without filtering.
@r000t@Leaflord@SpaceElf I'm in the other side of the state literally. I have no idea how fucked I am but nobody at work knows, especially not the coworker browsing Ukraine news daily.
@PhenomX6 I'd go get drone footage just to piss off the cops but I don't want anywhere near that shit and it's probably too late to get good shit (that's not building damage) anyway @Leaflord@SpaceElf
Heard about this and didn’t look into it. Did they have a cause for derailment? If it was WA I would assume Antifa and related groups. They do it all the time.
“Since January there have been 41 incidents of shunts placed on the BNSF tracks in Whatcom and Skagit counties—causing crossing guards to malfunction, interfering with automatic braking systems, and, in one case, causing the near-derailment of tanks of hazardous chemicals,” said U.S. Attorney Moran. “These crimes endanger our community. I commend the agents from Customs and Border Protection, FBI, BNSF Police, and state and local partners who prioritized stopping this criminal conduct.”