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Posted on 12/23/2004 10:30:10 PM PST by nwctwx
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I wouldn't want to do that either, even with a gas mask.
Peach,
Is there any way you can leave the area?
We could leave but they don't feel it is necessary for people in Aiken to leave. Graniteville people (about 5 minutes away) are more affected.
I've talked with some friends in the area and everyone is staying inside and feels safe doing that. I've called my parents and told them if they wanted to leave for my sister's house that we'd take them. But they want to stay too. They are about 20 minutes from the crash site so if my eyes keep burning we may go there tonight.
Hmmm. Thanks.
Thanks for the reports.
Sure wouldn't want to be that conductor~
I too am worried about you being there if your eyes are burning.
The governor was allowed to fly over the site (which is stupid - they've said flying planes could disturb the cloud of chemicals).
He saw dead animals lying on the ground and a dead body lying outside a house.
I have allergies sometimes and am never sure if it's my allergies or something else. I seem to be the only one affected in my neighborhood so hopefully it's allergies. I smelled it outside this morning and didn't stay outside very long.
me too!
If your eyes are burning maybe you should get further away now? Perhaps a wet cloth over the eyes would block the fumes better?
Peach,
If it's burning your eyes, then it's also affecting your lungs.
Any chance you can get out?
Jordan says it has foiled plot to kill 4 American archeologists
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Prosecutors levelled charges against two suspected Jordanian terrorists after police foiled a plan to kill four American archeologists, security officials said Wednesday.
Jamil Mohammed Kutkut, 27, and Ibrahim Mohammed Zein al-Abedeen, better known by Jihad al-Qashah, 36, were charged with plotting to commit terrorist acts, illegal possession of automatic weapons and infiltrating Jordanian territories. Prosecutors issued the charges recently, but it was unclear when.
No details were available on the American targets of the plot, which police say they foiled when they arrested Kutkut on Oct. 17. Al-Abedeen allegedly fled to Syria.
Officials suspect both men of belonging to a group headed by Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi and linked to al-Qaida.
Al-Zarqawi, 38, also heads the al-Qaida in Iraq and is wanted for involvement in numerous attacks against U.S. and Iraqi security forces.
A charge sheet drawn up by Jordanian prosecutors alleges al-Abedeen approached Kutkut to carry a military attack against four Americans archeologists working in the town of Hartha, near Irbid, 90 kilometres north of the capital, Amman.
Kutkut allegedly accepted the mission, cased the area and a school where the archeologists lived, and gave al-Abedeen a Kalashnikov automatic weapon with ammunition.
But al-Abedeen allegedly fled to Syria because Jordanian officials want him in connection with another foiled plot, this one involving al-Zarqawi and 10 other terror suspects to carry out chemical and conventional attacks in Jordan, the charge sheet said.
It was unclear when al-Abedeen went to Syria or when the trial against him and Kutkut would begin. If convicted, both face the death penalty.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2004/10/17/673414-ap.html
I agree Vel. What is it doing to the lungs/liver, etc. Better to be safe Peach!
We can get out but I'm listening to the Governor now and they really think people are safer in their homes than in their cars and driving.
Glad your computer problems are fixed. I was wondering where you were.
Another freeper recommended a snorkle mask (which we have) and I'm going to go do that now. Not sure if burning eyes are allergies or what, but I can't let anything affect my eyesight.
So now I'll be a pajamahadeen in a snorkle mask. LOL
We're doing the best we can. I really think we're safe here in the house; they aren't even relocating people from Graniteville where this happened and we're five miles away.
They can smell the chlorine from 20 or more miles away.
Governor saying it will be a bigger project than they thought given the size of the wreck and leak.
Thanks for your concern everyone; I'm going to go lie down for a while with a cold compress.
I think a photo of that is in order!
Stay safe and keep us posted please.
Two Dead, Hundreds Treated After Aiken County Train Derailment
Trains Collide Near Graniteville
POSTED: 10:29 am EST January 6, 2005
UPDATED: 2:43 pm EST January 6, 2005
GRANITEVILLE, S.C. -- Aiken County officials say at least two people has died following the train wreck near Graniteville Thursday morning.
Sheriff's Lt. Michael Frank did not say whether the death occurred in the wreck or from the chemical spill that followed. He said a dusk-to-dawn curfew will be in effect in Graniteville beginning at 6 p.m.
A Norfolk Southern freight train with 42 cars struck another locomotive with two cars on the siding at a textile plant in Graniteville shortly before 3 a.m. The railroad said three of the cars on the moving train were carrying chlorine. Frank said that 13 railcars derailed.
Train cars piled up where a train collided with a parked train in Graniteville, releasing a cloud of chlorine gas.
Thom Berry, of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, said one tanker car is leaking chlorine.
Frank said as of 1:30 p.m., 191 people had been treated or decontaminated, with 46 admitted to hospitals and 13 in critical condition.
Frank said it's important for Graniteville residents to stay inside and keep doors and windows closed. He said heaters and air conditioners should also be turned off.
There is no word on how many people have been treated at decontamination sites at the University of South Carolina--Aiken campus or Midland Valley High School. Some of those people have been sent to the hospital.
A crew from Norfolk Southern is now at the scene and is about to examine the leaking car to try to determine the best way to stop the leak.
Officials confer at an Environmental Protection Agency command post set up in nearby Aiken following the train derailment.
More than a half dozen textile mills in Graniteville and Warrenville are closed. Four schools in the area are also closed.
Douglas Brown, 44, lives two blocks from the track. He said he heard a boom that shook his house and heard metal dragging. Brown said he got into his car and drove to the scene. He said he saw a fog over the ground. He says there was a strong odor that made his tongue numb and his throat sore.
Brown went to USC Aiken for decontamination. He said his family is at home with the doors and windows closed and the ventilation systems off.
Mary Judge, 48, was also at USC Aiken and worried about her dogs. She says they were barking furiously after the crash and then stopped.
It's unclear when people will be allowed to return home. They were given white paper jump suits and paper slippers after they were decontaminated.
Gov. Mark Sanford has declared a state of emergency for the area, and is expected to tour the incident Thursday afternoon.
http://www.thecarolinachannel.com/news/4054481/detail.html
Are the Governor's eyes burning?
How far is the Gov. from the site and how far are you from the site?
Peach, if you were outside...
at least please go take a shower and change your clothes.
At least 15 min. under the shower and let the water run onto your eyes as well.
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