East Palestine, Ohio

DISTRACTION!
You should probably not read East Palestine, Ohio because it is more important to pay attention to balloons and UFOS.

Eh, oh well. I've always been depressed and had poor health anyways.

On February 3rd @ 9:55PM a Norfolk Southern Train with 150 cars coming from Illinois and carrying 20+ cars full of Toxic Materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The train was headed towards Conway and slammed into a Diesel Storage facility owned by Leake Oil Company Inc.

On Monday February 6th, the national guard used thermite devices to burn a hole into the top and bottom of the remaining cars that were still burning and then drained the Vinyl Chloride, Benzene, HCI and Phosgene and Butyl acrylate into a ditch lined with flares in a failed attempt to burn the material off. The gas cloud has mostly come down now and has poisoned the water supply.

The Train's wheels were discovered to be on fire 20 miles prior to derailment and crew were notified of the defect by a hotbox detector located in Salem, OH. They chose to continue to go nearly 30MPH with their wheels melting until they hit East Palestine, OH where a second hotbox detector notified them of the extreme amount of heat being generated from their melting wheels. At this point they hit the brakes and the train derailed, igniting a fire and spilling millions of lbs of highly toxic fumes and liquids onto the ground and into the air

Update

Mike DeWine brings us up to speed as of 2-14-23

QRD

Numbers Game

10 of the 20 rail cars contained Vinyl Chloride. On Monday, the national guard used Thermite devices to burn a hole into the bottom of 5 of the remaining that were still burning and then drained the Vinyl Chloride, Phosgene^[1]^[2] and Butyl Acrylate into a ditch lined with flares to purposely burn the material off.

5 rail cars x estimated 200,000 lb vinyl chloride per = 1,000,000 lb vinyl chloride combusted into Phosgene. The combustion products from vinyl chloride monomer gave 27,000 ppm HCl, 58,100 ppm CO2, 9500 ppm CO, 40 ppm phosgene. That's 27,000 lb HCl and 40 lb Phosgene pumped into the troposphere.

The EPA Results^[3]

9x normal levels of Acrolein.^[4]
2x normal levels of Benzene^[5]
23x normal levels of Ethylbenzene^[6]
Phosgene is not included in the panel^[7]

EPA Notice Letter^[8]^[9]

Vinyl Chloride

First of all, you need to know that there is absolutely no safe level of Vinyl Chloride in your air or in your drinking water, no safe level.

Vinyl Chloride gets into the ground water and can volatilize and turn into a vapor that can seep into people's homes through the ground. If it's true then the whole area over the interconnected aquifer is in danger of vinyl chloride exposure whether they drink the water or not.^[10]

Half Life

Under normal environmental conditions, vinyl chloride is extremely persistent. Under anaerobic conditions its half-life in soil is more than 2 years. Aerobic degradation in sewage treatment plants and surface water in an isolated bacteria culture with 20-120 mg/l requires at least 5 weeks (UBA, 1986). OH radicals reduce the half-life to 66 h. The hydrolytic half-life is less than 10 years (calculated, 25°C) (RIPPEN, 1991). The half-life in the troposphere is eleven weeks (abiotic degradation) (ATRI, 1985). An average half-life between 2.2 and 2.7 days is reported by the BUA.(1989).^[11]

Degradation, Decomposition Products

Photochemical oxidation results in the formation of HCl, CO and formyl chloride as well as formaldehyde. There is no photolysis of 10 mg/l in water at 300 nm over 90 hours. Biotic mineralisation is extremely slow.^[12]

News Tidbits

We basically nuked a town with chemicals so ODNR estimates 3,500 fish killed by East Palestine train derailment, spillwe could get a railroad open^[13] -Silverado Caggiano, a hazardous materials specialist

Railroads have slashed labor and other costs to bolster profits in recent years, and have been fiercely opposed to adding paid sick time that would require them to hire more staff. ^[14]

Department Of Transportation

As of the time of this writing (2-13-23), The United States Department of Transportation has not uttered a single word on this disaster. Most news and media outlets are keeping this quiet. Normally, democrats seize disaster news and use it for political gain, but for some reason, this story is being completely memory-holed.

On Monday, February 13, 2023, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg completely ignored the disaster. During the National Association of Counties Conference, Buttigieg focused on racial disparities in construction during a Monday conference, claiming that construction sites are not employing local workers in minority communities and outsourcing to White people.^[15]

This guy is a fucking clown.

Evan Lambert

Lambert was arrested Wednesday evening by East Palestine, Ohio, police officers and detained in Columbiana County jail on preliminary charges of criminal trespassing and resisting arrest, county Sheriff Brian McLaughlin said.^[16]

During Wednesday’s news conference in an East Palestine school gymnasium, Lambert was told to stop broadcasting because he was delivering his report loudly while Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was speaking, East Palestine police said in a news release. At the event, officials were announcing they were lifting a multi-day evacuation order near the site of a fiery weekend train derailment in that eastern Ohio town.

The reporter was released later that night after posting bond, McLaughlin said. Lambert is scheduled to be arraigned on February 23, according to Columbiana County online court records.

Citizen's view of the arrest.

Police bodycam footage.

Norfolk Southern

Vanguard Group Inc is the largest individual Norfolk Southern shareholder, owning 18.60M shares representing 8.17% of the company. Blackrock Inc. is in second place with 15,798,474 shares making it a 6.94% part owner.^[17]

Nothing more needs to be said about the owners of Norfolk Southern.

Scams?

A warning^[18] from East Palestine Police. Someone is walking around town promising money and potentially getting personal information.

East Palestine Police say this person is not employed by Norfolk Southern. The rail company is only addressing residents at the assistance center, with the exception of scheduled meetings with any residents who are confined to their home due to a disability, according to a message on the East Palestine Police Department’s Facebook page.^[19]

Police want you to report anyone coming to your home claiming to be a representative from Norfolk to call them at 330-426-4341. They also advise you not to give anyone you do not know your personal information.

Propaganda?

But who is really doing the scamming here? There are many who think this story is being buried by other news items because of the amount of danger these chemicals cause.

Testing

Testing companies have a terrible track record and have been known to fake test samples. Tetra Tech is doing the testing. Tetra Tech has a history of falsifying results.^[20] CTEH is also contracted to answer questions. CTEH has a history of falsifying results.^[21]

Here is a timeline of what the EPA is doing and what they have done so far.

And here is a list of testing companies by county in Ohio.

Cincinnati, Ohio, far south of the accident is already alarmed and is planning a course of action in case the spilled chemicals reach that far south of the accident site:

Protip: whenever an obviously catastrophic disaster like this occurs, and the authorities assure the public that everything is fine, they are probably doing so because they know that there isn't anything they can do to alleviate the situation, and telling the truth would cause unnecessary anguish.