My son is heading up to Ohio St in August. How worried should I be about this? Affecting Columbus at all?
The train wreck is on the PA border, about 25-35 miles from Pittsburgh. Columbus is over 100 miles west. The particulate from the smoke when they burned off the methyl chloride is going to affect the immediate community, then everything east to the Pittsburgh suburbs. They dumped thousands of gallon of water to extinguish the fire. That runs into the Ohio River. It’s going to pass like a plume, then hopefully dissipate and no longer be a problem. Columbus isn’t anywhere near this and it’s water is completely unaffected.
Thanks. Just don't know much about Ohio or that whole area. Been there twice on recruiting visits but didn't leave that area.
Gallup's campus in Omaha is located on the site of a former lead plant on the Missouri river, which is one of the bigger tributaries into the Mississippi. They can't grow trees on certain portions of the campus because, instead of removing all the contaminated soil when the plant closed (because there was so much), they encased it in a giant bubble and covered it up with uncontaminated soil. If they plant trees the root system will eventually puncture the bubble and potentially lead to lead leaching back into the soil and, ultimately, the Missouri river.
I live in Hudson, OH- about 60 miles to the northwest of East Palestine. I have zero concerns about this. Everything is flowing East and south. Plus we are part of the Lake Erie watershed, not the Ohio River. I’d have zero concerns about being in Columbus.
The guy sitting behind him that is framed by the doorway looks like he has an eyepatch because of the microphone.
I've watched him give some interviews and have left feeling bad for him. He clearly didn't sign up to be dealing with something like this, nor is he ready to do so....but, he does seem to care and is trying. But, he's very much in over his head to no fault of his own.
One of the best parts of the racket that is modern conservatism is you get to bitch about the government being too big and tyrannical, and then also bitch when the duties government was meant to perform have been stripped away putting lives in danger for political points.
I think it was about 10 or 15 years ago that a train derailed near Augusta Georgia in Grovetown and a bunch of chlorine gas leaked, lots of homes had to be evacuated but thankfully they didn't have to basically detonate the car.
Ohio Train Derailment Disinfo Traced Back to Bogus News Site Updated Feb. 17, 2023 5:51PM ET / Published Feb. 17, 2023 5:47PM ET A string of frightening claims about the Ohio train derailment spreading contamination to the Mississippi River has been traced back to a bogus news website that uses AI-generated “reporters,” according to an expert. The claims began circulating on Twitter earlier this week in what Caroline Orr Bueno, a behavioral scientist who studies disinformation, described as a “coordinated campaign.” Several Twitter users shared the exact same map to push the claim that farms along the Mississippi River were under threat from dangerous chemicals released in the Ohio train derailment, despite experts reassuring that is not the case. In a Substack on Friday, Bueno noted that many of the conspiratorial posts were taken from Eden Reports, a site registered with a Lithuanian-based registrar that purports to be a news source but relies on “writers” that are actually AI-generated.
Pretty sure all of the Idaho murder suspect experts on TikTok have transitioned to environmental spill experts.
I’d say good riddance but I‘m sure the next batch of SE Ohio chuds in the pipeline will be even more dangerous now that they have mutant capabilities.
I live like 2 miles from the Lake Erie watershed and Ohio River watershed divide on the very west of the state. #WatershedBrag I’d also have 0 percent worry about columbus. Like everyone has said we get western winds 99% of the time and all the water from there flows south.
How’s Cincinnati looking, I’m supposed to go out there in a couple weeks. Air good but don’t drink the water is about what I’ve heard?
Cincy is about 300 miles by road which is WAY more direct than the route contaminants would travel via the Ohio river. I would think anything moving past there is long gone already let alone in three weeks.
The city has tested 130 water samples as of yesterday, and all are clear. They are shutting down water intake on Monday as a precaution, switching to reservoir. There is no air impact. The wind blows eastward. Pittsburgh will have issues.
I’ve been hesitant to post, but my wife’s family lives very close to this disaster (south of Youngstown burbs) and yeah they don’t agree, necessarily given the air quality they’ve experienced.
Oh yeah, didn’t mean to say no effect locally, just that prevailing winds generally blow east. Anyone within 15-20 miles should have concerns.
yeah her whole family is in New Middletown, North Lima, and Poland. Very close. We've been very worried.
they're well informed folks so they will be fine, I'm sure, but they have noted a clear air quality issue after the burn.