Subj : Re: Trains
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Fri Feb 24 2023 08:08:00

DARYL STOUT wrote:

>    Apparently, the smoke, etc. from the burn-off they did of the hazmat
> chemicals, is now contributing to "acid snow" further east. There is a
> "chemical rainbow" in area bodies of water, people's pets and marine
> life are dying, and I'm sure a bunch of folks will have health issues as
> a result of this. Apparently, if Norfolk Southern fails on its part, the
> fines they could face would be at least triple the cost of cleanup.

Ask yourself:

If the pets are dying, why aren't the little kids dying?

While breathing this crap is bound to be hazardous, there's evidently a 
lot of coincidence being ascribed to it, and possibly some staged animal 
deaths when someone sees dollar signs on the horizon. (Chickens artfully 
arranged on the ground do not convince me; they're not gonna die evenly 
spread out like that.) Kids are at least as susceptible as dogs and 
piglets, and should die at about the same rate.

Setting the contents on fire because (as they said) they feared an 
explosion (meaning the tanks were NOT leaking) -- was quite possibly the 
dumbest thing they could have done, ensuring the widest possible 
distribution of the worst possible byproducts. Didn't those cars have 
pressure relief valves? If not, why not?? My inner chemist opines that 
just venting them would have been far less hazardous than the burn 
products, and easier to deal with (frex, vent through a precipitating 
solution; ordinary salt water likely would have worked).

And heat ==> expansion ==> overpressure ==> explosions, so someone was 
completely off base there.

The railroad may have been responsible for the derail, but whoever 
decided fire was a better solution is responsible for the secondary 
effects. If the tanks hadn't already exploded, and were not yet leaking, 
they weren't real likely to. At the very least, they should have 
consulted an industrial chemist.

The stupid, it's nuclear....
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