Probably would be called Chernobyl 2 if it happened in Russia or China.
If they want to get America to care, they shouldn't have named the area Palestine.
I know it's being shrugged off because it's a poorer, less populated area.
sorry to all the people who will die bc of this, I'm glad I live 10000 miles from there :/
Maybe its just the town name unfortunately setting off all of the Palestine filters in the media offices.
If we start talking about East Palestine people are going to start asking about West Palestine!
The death cloud from the derailed train a few days ago. A taste of things to come.
I don't know. Hopefully not, but American "News" Media has been accidentally not doing a great job of covering it. Been reports of lots of dead animals.
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio —
Crews released toxic chemicals into the air from five derailed tanker cars that were in danger of exploding Monday and began burning it after warning residents near the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line to leave immediately or face the possibility of death.
Flames and black smoke billowed high into the sky from the derailment site late in the afternoon, about an hour after authorities said the controlled release would begin.
The slow release of vinyl chloride from five rail cars into a trough that was then ignited created a large plume above the village of East Palestine but authorities said they were closely monitoring the air quality. [...] Officials warned the controlled burn would send phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air. Phosgene is a highly toxic gas that can cause vomiting and breathing trouble and was used as a weapon in World War I.
https://www.wtae.com/article/east-palestine-ohio-train-wreck/42768369
Hydrogen chloride turns into hydrochloric acid when it touches water, which is already in the air plus combustion produces water.
There are massive amounts of dead fish and other animals there now.
It's absurd.
in North Korea, the government unleashes chemical weapons on its own population, blighting its landscape.
I think that it would only be big news if it happened somewhere where libs or conservatives care about and can be made part of the US culture war.
If it had happened in one the many well off suburbs around Youngstown or 6 hours away in Pittsburg yeah it would have been huge news and the response would have been greater if only because they know the people could fight it. Like how in Michigan the wealthy suburbs are still suing the state over infrastructure issues related to the flooding that happened last year
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.
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.
I saw a local news story that someone from the town had been an extra in the netflix adaptation of White Noise and much of it was filmed around Akron and Cleveland.
