Posted on 11/23/2023 5:01:16 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear declared a state of emergency Wednesday after a train derailed in Livingston and spilled chemicals that caught on fire, sending plumes of smoke into the air.
At least 16 cars of a southbound CSX train were involved in the derailment which happened at about 2:23 p.m. just north of the tiny town of 400 residents in Rockcastle County, CSX said.
Two of those train cars were carrying molten sulfur which leaked out during the derailment and ignited, according to the company. When molten sulfur burns, it often releases sulfur dioxide, which can be toxic.
Residents of Livingston and Piney Branch were encouraged to evacuate as the Rockcastle County judge/executive also declared a state of emergency for the county.
Officials went door-to-door urging people to leave the area, local CBS News affiliate station WKYT reported.
Many families were preparing for Thanksgiving when they were told about the evacuations.
They were ushered to Rockcastle County Middle School, where Red Cross officials transformed its gym into an emergency shelter with dozens of cots.
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Terrorism? Who needs terrorism. The Great Reset is more efficient.
Doesn’t soros and co. says:
Why build a pipeline when a train will do better and I can make more dough too !
Well that makes more sense than what they usually do, tell people to shelter in place like East Palestine, OH. Toxic cloud coming your way. Stay right where you are.
Just when you think things can’t get any worse these days - they manage to get worse!
That is going to be one toxic mess to clean up. Expensive and lots of manpower. And it will be ignored by Butt-face and Brandon, just like every other man-made disaster/act of terrorism in the past 3+ years. Unless, of course, they can score political points.
Prayers up for the families/town concerned. Life as you know it is over. :(
Sulfur and BootyJudge.
Like peanut butter and chocolate.
Sulfur is not really toxic
Passing Newark airport the other day on I95 I saw what seemed like a couple of miles of tanker train. They were black cars with no sign in layman’s terms of what was in them. I thought damn if it’s something volatile that much of it in one place is downright scary.
Well, get a shovel and get over there and help them, then! ;)
That’s more like Warren Buffett.
Burning sulfur is very toxic. Forms H2SO4 in the lungs. Hopefully it doesn’t happen.
Hope Mayor Pete is not having another baby. It seems trains derail whenever he gets pregnant.
At least the air is still safe for children and other living things......😳
I just love the smell of brimstone in the morning...
Sniff it when it burns and then report back to me.
“Burning sulfur is very toxic.“
Indeed it is. The oxidation (burning) of sulfur results in SO2, the gas that is that “rotten eggs” smell. Fortunately, if you can smell it, that is when the air concentrations are low, it is not fatal, but when the concentrations go above a couple of hundred parts per million, you can no longer smell it, primarily because you are dead at the point.
Sulfuring cut peaches before drying was my job in the 1960’s.
I’d load the smoke houses, load and light the sulfur then open the doors after a couple days to huge billows of sulfur smoke. Then we’d move them to dry in the sun.
I’m not dead yet
From Western Virginia University:
Without the follow-up of a sulfuring treatment, many fruits – especially apples, pears, and peaches – will gradually darken during drying and storage. Fruits may be dried without sulfuring, but this treatment decreases the loss of vitamins A and C and preserves color and flavor. Sulfuring also deters bugs and souring.
Yes, SO2 is used in many processes including during the bleaching of beet sugar, flour, fruit, gelatin, glue, grain, oil, straw, textiles, wood pulp, and wood.
I’m guessing that you never worked in an oil field, or in the mining industry, where personal continuous SO2 monitors are required, due to the history of SO2 killing workers.
Here are the existing short-term exposure guidelines: National Research Council [NRC 1984] Emergency Exposure Guidance Levels (EEGLs):
10-minute EEGL: 30 ppm
30-minute EEGL: 20 ppm
60-minute EEGL: 10 ppm
24-hour EEGL: 5 ppm
Ass you can see lethal exposure is time and concentration dependent.
“Ass you can see lethal exposure is time and concentration dependent.”
was supposed to be:
As you can see lethal exposure is time and concentration dependent.
Guess I’m lucky from my exposure as a youth. Will never forget the smell.
Mining, yes I own gold mines on 2 separate properties but they’re in California so are inactive.
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