Has anyone been informed of these dreadful events? Please keep the people of Ohio in your prayers. 🙏

hi punk, i noticed you've been RBing a lot about the east palestine train derailment incident. have you seen any links to charities or organizations that are taking donations to help those affected?

There really doesn’t seem to be any sort of major official donations. There’s no sort of “state of emergency” from my understanding meaning agencies like the Red Cross and things of that nature aren’t stepping in as far as I can gather. It’s mostly just like “people were asked to leave their homes for a bit”.

Hey guys this fox rescue has been hit hard by the chemical train that derailed in Ohio. It’s really close to the disaster site and the future is going to be rough there for a while so I thought I’d spread this around in case anyone else wanted to help. It also has some wolf dogs and coyotes.

Everything’s fine

JJ Birch

Many of us dislike Ohio (for meme or real reasons) but Im worried about them right now

A train caring toxic stuff derailed and now people are getting sick from water and the air, they are also scared of the food growing all around Ohio

And today a factory exploded killing 13 people.

So to anyone in Ohio right now, please stay safe

Are you fucking shitting me

Thought as long as we're wringing our hands about the train derailment in Ohio and industrial pollution it might be a good time to review the environmental regulatory track record for Ohio on a subject I'm quite familiar with. This isn't hyperbole or fake news. I was a guard on the water treatment pads in Pennsylvania where we separated the "heavy mud" (radioactive) drilling waste and shipped it by truck to Ohio for disposal every night. Ohio and West Virginia were the primary dumping grounds via injection well disposal for all sorts of very nasty byproducts from the shale gas extraction process. You can't continue to live in a Republican libertarian fantasy. Freedom to, and freedom from, require some collective actions and no amount of individual cowboy attitude or rich kid money will stand up to industry like strong regulation. Fracking didn't turn northern tier PA into a ShangriLa of monopoly men. It's just just as backwards and broken and poor as it always was, only now there's one more thing to wonder about when the sicknesses start to accumulate. Crying about a toxic train wreck in a state known for making itself a toxic waste dump isn't going to help. You need to take this to the politicians starting with the locals and working up. We learned zoning was a great tool when higher up channels were bought out. Zone out components of the issue. Can't zone out toxic trains? Zone out something that makes them 10 times as expensive to run. Town board won't hear it? Get a new board. Don't just whine about something that was as easy to see coming down the road as anything in a state as flat as Ohio... Get busy.