At approximately 8:55pm on February 3rd a major train derailment happened near the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania. In an Ohio town called East Palestine, a Norfolk Southern train pulling 150 cars derailed. 20 of those cars were carrying hazardous materials, including a liquified substance called “Vinyl Chloride.”
A massive explosion and fire resulted from the derailment and the nature of the cargo. In an effort to mitigate the problem, responding emergency authorities dug a trench and allowed the chemicals to burn off into the atmosphere. However, vinyl chloride turns into hydrochloric acid when it mixes with water vapor. The resulting chemical toxins can travel with wind, forming toxic clouds.
Several people in the downwind region from the initial explosion have reported health issues. Additionally, animals and fish have been reported to have been killed in the zone where the chemical cloud traveled.
There is now increasing concern about longer term impacts from the release of the chemicals including vinyl chloride.
Norfolk Southern and the EPA released the full list of chemicals that were being transported, they include:
♦Vinyl chloride: a colorless gas that is used to make polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics and is highly flammable and decomposes to make toxic fumes. According to the National Library of Medicine, it is also carcinogenic and can cause other health issues.
♦Butyl acrylate: a clear liquid that is used for making paints, sealants and adhesives. It is flammable and can cause skin, eye and respiratory irritation.
♦Ethylhexyl acrylate: a colorless liquid used to make paints and plastics. It can cause skin and respiratory irritation and, under moderate heat, can produce hazardous vapor.
♦Ethylene glycol monobutyl: a colorless liquid used as a solvent for paint and inks, as well as some dry-cleaning solutions. It is classed as acutely toxic, able to cause serious or permanent injury, and highly flammable. Vapors can irritate the eyes and nose, and ingestion can cause headaches and vomiting. (source)
According to NewsWeek, “Kirk Kollar of the Ohio EPA said the levels of toxic chemicals observed in nearby waterways “were immediately toxic to fish,” and that spilt material had leaked into Sulphur Run. Lesley Run, Little Beaver Creek and the Ohio River were being monitored.”
The U.S. EPA said on Friday that Norfolk Southern contractors had installed a dam and a water bypass at Sulphur Run to prevent further contamination and had also stopped the remaining spilled chemicals entering the stream. The EPA is working with the Ohio EPA to investigate soil contamination at the derailment site.” (more)
(SOURCE – HHS, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
The video embeds in the tweets below are additionally concerning and informative:
Probably the best video about what happened in Pennsylvania/Ohio and it’s pretty mind blowing. https://t.co/VbG0kzplRs
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌 (@unhealthytruth) February 13, 2023
Now majority of the chemicals were burned but some of them were also buried. The sketchy party? The fixed railroad was built overtop the buried spillage? Now why would they do that and so quickly? Air tests were given but no ground/water tests?
Smells like coverup… pic.twitter.com/OR4091xFEW
— Woke Societies (@wokesocieties) February 13, 2023
The White House and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg have been silent on the issue.
People in the affected communities, which are now quite diverse due to the wind travel of the chemicals, are rightly concerned and apparently not getting enough information from anyone about the potential for longer term health issues.
How weird is it that the chinese balloon was floating by on feb 3rd when the ohio train derailment happened?
Just in: so-called “derailments” are now reported in Texas and South Carolina. Think this may all be the work of Antifa until proven otherwise.
Antifa? I say FBI or CIA.
Antifa is just a subsidiary of the FBI.
Also here in Blount County, TN.
Or are there cells from an open border causing these issues?
Fires at major food suppliers….
Train derailment, 3, 4, 5 in one wk, ALL with hazardous chemicals?
We have NO idea who crossed the border and were set ‘free’ to travel across the USA. No tracking, no identities.
I just wonder if this is part of foreign terrorists using cells to create these disasters and causing mass confusion.
I believe, more are to come.
Hard to tell when the FBI is too busy with the antivaxers and noncompliant parents!
I wonder if the two agents left who give a darn will be allowed to investigate real subversives and not us white supremacists.
They won’t be. Remember the San Bernardino shooting? Those agents were told to quit connecting the dots. We will never know the truth about the Vegas shooting either. Now they are busy flagging the unvaccinated and ruining their lives. The FBI is today’s gestapo.
Maybe there was a stray sidewinder long before the feckless gov stooges started firing at ‘ballons’
Maybe that’s where that sidewinder went. Good call.
What country?
Nothing catastrophic endangering the health and welfare of average Americans and their communities can be accepted as happenstance or coincidence .
From over 30 million illegals many from the Middle East and China dispersed all over what was our country . Certainly there are foreign agents undermining our society!
Now add the openly funded miscreants of ANTIFA & BLM along with agent provocateurs from within our alphabet agencies FBI ATF HSA & IRS all attempting to criminalize normal outrage by American Citizens. Now add the Plandemic and vaxx BioWarfare attack on Americans by unauthorized government assholes at all levels .
I think war has been declared on all American Citizens with special attention to the White majority and even more scrutiny upon white males !
It’s a slow extermination and neutering of any resistance to leftist ideology.
We are literally surrounded by our own complacency!
Remember who walled themselves off from the Citizens they allegedly represent !
No such thing as a coincidence.
Agreed. in 2023, the old adage must change. Never attribute to incompetence what is more likely malice.
Politicians/Media no longer mention chemical toxicity, pollution, or emergency response to spills but did convince us its ‘toxic rhetoric’ we must be protected from…
Once upon a time in the way back machine Mr. Peabody I used to race Hare Scrambles in the East Palestine woods. Beautiful area, has it been Chernobled Mr. Peabody?
What? Me worry? Meanwhile Alfred E. Newman is busy pumping breast milk.
I’m not going alone. Some of them are coming with me.
Watershed areas where you want to either have a really good water filter system ( or drink bottled water?) for now.
We still have not seen a good wind map for fallout from the mushroom cloud. If anyone has one, please post it.
Who could ask for anything more. Looks like all those massive infrastructure spending bills did nothing but payoff the unions. If any of these derailments were caused by espionage my list of likely suspects is the FBI and CIA.
MIHOP.
As it turns out, there are thousands of derailments across the country every year. That would seem to make them a management priority, as well as something that the government could deal with on better basis than it did this time. The train had a hotbox that caught on fire and was detected over an hour before the derailment. WTH? Why couldn’t anyone figure out a way by to deal with such things? Setting toxic chemicals on fire is not a solution in my mind. This one was botched on scene and back in the office beginning years ago. It’s out there, but when Brandon interfered in the rail strike last month, did someone not do the maintainence that was required in order to prevent this situation?
Anyway, nothing related to the Northstream gas pipe sabotage, of course.
I’m not finding a 10 minute video?
Where’s the Sierra Club?
EPA?
Greenies?
Animal Rights Groups?
I could go on and on.
Media?
Government spokesman?
Corporate spokesman?
Again, on and on.
Lastly, who in government decided on the “controlled burn” and WTF were they afraid of if this was the best option?
What happened to the video with the gal with the green hair and nose rings?
What happened to the gal with green hair and nose ring? She really had it down.
“dug a trench”
PERC and related compounds are toxic and migrate downward many times faster than water to the water table.
The characteristics are why ground pollution is so severe at dry cleaning plants.
What if President Trump was our rightly elected President, when this derailment happened.
Within 24 hours the President would have put together a group of experts, experts that know their job, instead of the EPA, who is only interested in grifting, Global dog excrement.
They would come up with a plan of attack. Then Find the best people to defuse, wait for it,
The most comprehensive plan, for the safety of the ‘people’ affected, and their surrounding environment.
Trump will catch heII for it, then he’ll belittle the aimless delusional sociologist, PHD,
who claims it is a racist born decision.
The crack team of contractors led by a Bruce Willis, look a like, would defuse the danger,
attacking the chemical accident, with toxic masculinity.
The President would go to Ohio and get a hands on report.
Then somehow by a dear act of God, the 2 recent de-railings would be aborted,
because of the Ohio accident, that happened last week, and, we somehow knew the truth,
The railroad people, just might pay more attention, solve and take the proper precautions,
to keep the same thing from happening again.