East Palestine Derailment

No problem my friend.

 

My little nugget of wisdom here is expect this to be the new normal going forward. Roads, buildings, rail lines, airplanes, bridges, etc.

 

Ya mean more and more mishaps with infrastructure and commerce? I don't believe it

 

When we continually kick the can down the road and fail to do upgrades eventually it’s gonna catch up . I’ve seen it first hand dealing with municipal water and sewer systems.

 

Yeah there's that too, which is what that big infrastructure bill was supposed to address at some point. I haven't seen much on that front yet other than a few municipal projects that were already in the works for years now. I don't know, maybe the big stuff is still in the planning stage.

 

Big projects take time unfortunately. None of this will be fixed overnight but asking tax payers to replace an outdated 100 year old sewer force main that’s buried just doesn’t have the “ feel good “ factor .

There’s an overpass on 75 in the U.P. that I frequently travel . How it’s not been declared unsafe is beyond me . Concrete falling off , I’m sure plow trucks have thrown a few pieces over on 75 a time or two .

 

Except from what I understand the East Palestine accident was do to a bad axle on a rail car. Not infrastructure. Poor maintenance from company

 

Corporate greed is what the accident boils down too. There is video of it on fire a few miles from the accident. Why the detectors didn't pick it up is what I want to know.
Unless it happened in between detectors but they still should have caught the heat signature.

 

If no one saw - some good news - NFS is tearing the tracks up, excavating all the soil, putting new soil down and rebuilding the track.
The EPA must have put the fear into them? It's a good start but should have been started the day they had the tracks cleared.
Now we just had a nice saturation so a lot probably made it's way deeper into the soil and ground water.

 

So even though the temperature more than doubled between two sensors no alarm was raised

 

I didn't watch the whole thing, but on the radio today they were talking about this and made it sound like the alarm went off 3 times, or on 3 different levels? (which is the highest level, if I understood it right)

 

What they said was it went past three sensors 1st sensor record 48* F on a 10* F day
2nd sensor 128*F
3rd sensor 240*F or something like that. Thats when they started to slow to a stop. Already too late.
80* jump from 1 to 2 but because still in "safe" temperature range it passed without alarm

 

Not a fan of cnn but here's something.

Texas and Michigan officials say they didn't know water, soil from Ohio train wreck would be transported into their jurisdictions

 

It's crazy they would truck in across state lines. I suppose as long as it isn't in their backyard.

 

No sense in being pro-active. That's a problem future generations will have to figure out.