Yeah, I don't think people realize how close this is to very densely populated areas. Columbiana County is right between the Cleveland-Akron-Canton CSA (4 million people) and the Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, WV CSA (3 million people). It's 40-70 miles away from several major population centers and a national park.
It's crazy to think about, but one of the causes for the political urgency that resulted in Nixon and Congress creating the EPA were the many times the Cuyahoga river caught on fire south of dowtown Cleveland in 50s and 60s. People were furious that industry was destroying their cities. Now that kind of thing is barely talked about. I was living in downtown Cleveland in 2007, when one of the chemical plants on the Cuyahoga caught on fire. It took firefighters hours to put it out, and the next day the river mouth at lake Erie was covered with football fields of dead fish. The fire itself was maybe two minutes on the evening news and no follow up regarding the huge fish kill.
I thought it was further? Either way East Palestine was poor. It already had some of the worst air quality. If it hit, say, around Murrysville there would be a bigger freak out and more money from the company due to the ever present issue of things affecting the well off now.
Pittsburgh is like, less than an hour drive away.
Yeah, I don't think people realize how close this is to very densely populated areas. Columbiana County is right between the Cleveland-Akron-Canton CSA (4 million people) and the Pittsburgh-Parkersburg, WV CSA (3 million people). It's 40-70 miles away from several major population centers and a national park.
It's crazy to think about, but one of the causes for the political urgency that resulted in Nixon and Congress creating the EPA were the many times the Cuyahoga river caught on fire south of dowtown Cleveland in 50s and 60s. People were furious that industry was destroying their cities. Now that kind of thing is barely talked about. I was living in downtown Cleveland in 2007, when one of the chemical plants on the Cuyahoga caught on fire. It took firefighters hours to put it out, and the next day the river mouth at lake Erie was covered with football fields of dead fish. The fire itself was maybe two minutes on the evening news and no follow up regarding the huge fish kill.
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I thought it was further? Either way East Palestine was poor. It already had some of the worst air quality. If it hit, say, around Murrysville there would be a bigger freak out and more money from the company due to the ever present issue of things affecting the well off now.
It is about 38 miles in a straight line from the crash site to the point park fountain.
That’s still far enough. You know how Americans communities treat anything that’s not in their own line of site/community.