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Erin Brockovich Demands Joe Biden 'Step Up Now' on Ohio Train Derailment (pigs flying alert)
Newsweek ^ | February 13, 2023 | Kaitlin Lewis

Posted on 02/13/2023 5:40:33 PM PST by DoodleBob

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I can't believe I'm siding with Brockovich.
1 posted on 02/13/2023 5:40:33 PM PST by DoodleBob
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Around 20 of the 50 cars that derailed were transporting hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, a toxic and flammable gas.

Don't we have a 'Transportation Secretary'?
2 posted on 02/13/2023 5:41:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DoodleBob

took him a week on the balloon

he’s a little slow

we should make allowances for his dementia

plus you are not allowed to wake him if he is napping


3 posted on 02/13/2023 5:42:45 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Don't we have a 'Transportation Secretary'?

I think it’s too busy shopping for shoes to match its purse and worrying about too many white construction workers and stuff.

4 posted on 02/13/2023 5:44:00 PM PST by Allegra
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I think Mayor Pete was busy telling the world that we need more non-white construction workers......

This train derailment is going to be expensive!


5 posted on 02/13/2023 5:45:36 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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Pete Buttigieg Ignores Ohio Train Derailment in Transportation Celebration
6 posted on 02/13/2023 5:45:51 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Sorry Erin.

It’s ice cream 🍨🍨🍨 time right now.

We’d refer you to the Office of Special Ice Cream.


7 posted on 02/13/2023 5:49:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Spy balloons, multiple train wrecks with chemical pollution, food processors burning down, Sounds like it is planned to me. What are they covering up with these “accidents”?


8 posted on 02/13/2023 5:50:23 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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The Resident Removed the safety,
and the owners (guess who) when the axle was photographed
and sensored to be BURNING, demanded they continue.

This is treason to remove the last sources of eggs
which protect against the spike protein monstrosities,
and 10% more of the citizens of the Republic.

Why?

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ACCOUNTABILITY, or even
discussion of this atrocity
on the MSM owned by (guess who).


9 posted on 02/13/2023 5:51:09 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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#2: "Don't we have a 'Transportation Secretary'?"

Yes, supposedly. But that day he was too busy being reamed in the Hershey Highway by a big buck he met on Grindr.

10 posted on 02/13/2023 5:58:14 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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It sounds like that entire area needs to be fenced off for the next 20-50 years or so. It could be worse. If it was a nuclear accident then we would have wait 100,000 years.


11 posted on 02/13/2023 6:02:18 PM PST by Revel
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I can't believe I'm siding with Brockovich.

You shouldn't. She has no expertise. I sell against her stupid movie... with success.

12 posted on 02/13/2023 6:12:06 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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Around 20 of the 50 cars that derailed were transporting hazardous materials, including vinyl chloride, a toxic and flammable gas.

you, among all Freepers, should know: Such "hazardous" chemicals are transported EVERY DAY, all over the country. Accidents are rare.

Vinyl Chloride is not a huge immediate threat... other than the explosion potential. It's more of a LONG term exposure threat. No one in Ohio should be overly concerned about long-term exposure. It will be cleaed up.

13 posted on 02/13/2023 6:15:58 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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I usually side with business, but there’s something wrong at Norfolk Southern railway, the owner of the tracks where the derailment occurred (on the historic Pennsylvania Railroad mainline just west of the Ohio-PA state line). The Amtrak Capitol Limited, the Chicago- Pittsburgh-Washington DC daily train, runs over those tracks. NS recently had another derailment, on the former New York Central line at Sandusky, Ohio. Who knows where else they operate hazardous tracks. Also, NS runs its freight trains, which can be well over one mile long, at high speeds (the national freight train speed limit is 79 mph). These freight trains are frightening to look at close up. There is a valid public safety reason to make sure that the big freight railroad companies carefully maintain their roadbeds and tracks.

Interestingly, the NS routing between Chicago and Pittsburgh runs just south of downtown South Bend.


14 posted on 02/13/2023 6:24:59 PM PST by nd76
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(the national freight train speed limit is 79 mph)

70 mph. The passenger train max is 79 mph with certain exceptions.

15 posted on 02/13/2023 6:26:57 PM PST by Publius
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Don’t mind all the dying wildlife right? Or the acid rain that’s starting to show it’s ugly face? Just a mild inconvenience.


16 posted on 02/13/2023 6:27:07 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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As part of the clean up they drained the contents of the tankers into a trench and set the pool on fire.

That’s the first I’d heard of that as a clean up procedure. You?


17 posted on 02/13/2023 6:29:47 PM PST by meatloaf
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You’re saying that the Feds and state officials and EPA are doing a great job?


18 posted on 02/13/2023 6:30:03 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: nd76

Inside word from an N&S employee is that a hot journal on one of the cars was detected and the crew on the engine ignored it.


19 posted on 02/13/2023 7:34:11 PM PST by technically right
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Doing better than trump?

I don’t recall a derailment like this under trump.


20 posted on 02/13/2023 7:43:09 PM PST by cableguymn
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