What is going on in northeast Ohio is totally terrifying.
However what’s extra, is the federal authorities’s sheer absence within the aftermath, and the media’s full disregard for protecting the story.
In case you haven’t heard by now, again on February 3, a Norfolk Southern practice carrying hazardous supplies derailed on this small Ohio city close to the border of Pennsylvania, inflicting a large number of dangerous chemical compounds, together with vinyl chloride. State officers compelled the evacuation of tons of of the city’s 4,700 residents in order that the corporate might deliberately burn among the chemical compounds, to keep away from a combustion explosion.
That is an environmental emergency. The air, water and soil have been dangerously contaminated, and but just a few days after the burn, residents have been informed it was “secure” to return to their houses — and drink the water — after the EPA’s preliminary testing of the water and air within the evacuation zone deemed it not-dangerous. Oh – and in these few days, they additionally rebuilt the railroad over the contaminated soil, and trains are once more operating.
However the directions to return residence appear contradictory to what folks on the bottom are experiencing: dizziness, rashes breaking out on their pores and skin, problem respiration and powerful odors lingering within the city. And nature is echoing: over 3,500 useless fish have risen to the floor within the waterways across the crash web site. Chickens and canine are simply up and dying in a single day.
Clearly all isn’t “all clear.”
Even Ohio Governor, Mike DeWine, urged residents to drink bottled water.
And we, down in Cincinnati (280 miles away) — which is linked by way of the Ohio River to this crash web site — have been warned {that a} plume of hazardous chemical compounds originating from East Palestine will circulate by Cincinnati on the Ohio River on Friday…”however not sufficient to hurt.”
However probably the most extraordinary factor about that is that for the primary week of this catastrophe…there was little to no media protection.
What was the nation speaking about as an alternative?
The three mysterious “UFO balloons” that the federal government randomly determined to shoot down in a single weekend…the identical weekend this environmental catastrophe occurred.
Coincidence?
Look, I’m not one for conspiracy theories, and I’m not suggesting that the UFO stint was to detract consideration from this absolute nightmare in Ohio.
However what I am suggesting is that it is a horrible scenario that’s being dealt with dismally. The federal authorities has fully deserted the folks of East Palestine within the aftermath. Really, the place are they?
There may be a lot mistrust in East Palestine proper now, with new info popping out – seemingly by the information cycle – about new poisonous chemical compounds that have been additionally onboard the practice that simply occurred to not be not noted of the report. And notably as increasingly more persons are growing rashes, and animals are dying — there’s a lot worry: what are these chemical compounds going to do to us?
How dangerous is it actually?
Individuals need the straight reply, they usually don’t really feel that they’re getting it. Individuals are offended. They’re feeling ignored by Biden’s administration. And Norfolk Southern didn’t even ship a consultant to the city corridor assembly that East Palestine residents held earlier this week!
All I do know is that it poured all day right this moment, which may’t be good for the bottom water and runoff scenario. That, and I’ll be consuming bottled water for the close to foreseeable future.
One factor is for sure right here: and that’s that the folks of East Palestine — and all of Ohio and Pennsylvania actually — want prayers for security, braveness and energy. That, and solutions.
There may be a whole lot of worry proper now. And for the folks of East Palestine, they’re in a disaster. Their houses are in the course of a chemical spill. Governor DeWine has demanded extra assist and testing from the EPA, however on the finish of the day, I’m afraid the ramifications and seriousness of this catastrophe received’t be seen or skilled till additional down the road.
And I simply pray God’s safety over the well being and wellbeing of these residents in hurt’s approach.
However the dealing with of this disaster has actually made me upset. Why aren’t the local weather activists in Washington throwing a conniption over the gallons and gallons of poisonous chemical compounds that at the moment are in our waterways, air and soil? Why aren’t they demanding, not solely solutions…however motion!
The silence is deafening.
And it makes me surprise why.
I don’t know. I’m actually not attempting to stir the pot right here, I’m simply actually attempting to make heads or tails of this.
And honestly, I’m scared for my very own security and the protection of my household and family members right here in Ohio — is our water secure to drink? Will our meals provide be compromised within the spring?
Anyhow. Pray for East Palestine. Pray for Ohio and Pennsylvania. Might God’s hand of safety be over the heartland, and peace be felt within the hearts of all those that worry.
Till Monday…
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