Residents of East Palestine, Ohio have been reporting bizarre symptoms following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and subsequent toxic explosion, the NY Post reports.
“Doctors say I definitely have the chemicals in me but there’s no one in town who can run the toxicological tests to find out which ones they are,” said 40-year-old Wade Lovett, whose high-pitched voice now sounds as if he’s been inhaling helium.
“My voice sounds like Mickey Mouse. My normal voice is low. It’s hard to breathe, especially at night. My chest hurts so much at night I feel like I’m drowning. I cough up phlegm a lot. I lost my job because the doctor won’t release me to go to work.”
Leading the charge to fight for the community is 46-year-old Jami Cozza, a lifelong East Palestinian who counts 47 close relatives here. Many of them are facing health issues from the chemical fire as well as the psychic toll of their town becoming, in the words of a scientist visiting the area Thursday, the new “Love Canal” — a reference to the Niagara Falls, NY, neighborhood that became a hotbed issue in 1978 because people were getting sick from living above a contaminated waste dump. -NY Post
Many residents are also complaining of mystery rashes and sore throats after returning home following the lifting of evacuation orders on February 8.
“Yesterday was the first day in probably three or four days that I could smell anything. I lost my smell and my sense of taste. I had an eye infection in both eyes. I was having respiratory issues like I was just out of breath. Other members of my family have had eye infections and strep throat,” said Shelby Walker, who lives a few yards from the epicenter from the crash and explosion. “The cleanup crew drives past us at night and won’t even look at us. It’s like we don’t exist. No one has reached out to us or told us anything.”
According to an independent analysis of EPA data by Texas A&M University released on Friday, nine air pollutants were found around East Palestine at levels that could raise long-term health concerns.
“My fiancé was so sick that I almost took him to the hospital,” Jami Cozza told the Post. “Not only am I fighting for my family’s life, but I feel like I’m fighting for the whole town’s life. When I’m walking around hearing these stories, they’re not from people. They’re from my family. They’re from my friends that I’ve have grown up with,” she said. “People are desperate right now. We’re dying slowly. They’re poisoning us slowly.”
According to a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of hundreds of residents, Norfolk Southern ‘went rogue’ when it made the decision three days after the derailment to blow up five train cars containing deadly vinyl chloride. Around 1.1 million pounds of the toxic compound were spilled and later burned, the suit claims.
Norfolk Southern, meanwhile, says they consulted with experts and Gov. Mike DeWine (R) before the controlled burn, which they say they did to avoid a potential ‘catastrophic failure of the cars.’
“What they could have done and should have done is remove all the vinyl chloride from the train cars and put them in secure containment vessels,” said Rene Rocha of the Morgan & Morgan law firm, one of the lead attorneys on the class-action case. “They then should have excavated tons of soil and monitored and remediated the soil and groundwater.”
Cozza’s hearing included a panel with scientists from the University of Pittsburgh, an environmental lawyer, and a veteran Ohio hazardous materials expert. None of them painted a rosy picture of the town’s future, despite Norfolk Southern’s insistence that the area is safe and will be cleaned up and tested more.
The experts listened as desperate residents asked about the safety of breastfeeding their babies and getting water from their wells. Planting season is coming soon in an area where many farm. One woman cried when she spoke about her worry over her pregnant goats. -NY Post
According to Harvard-trained toxicologist, Stephen Lester, the hot zone at East Palestine is one of the ‘most concerning’ he’s ever seen – and warned that the chemical dioxin that was released during the controlled burn will be embedded in the soil and water.
“Until the government takes this seriously there are going to be real problems,” said Lester. “It’s criminal that the EPA didn’t come forward with information about dioxin and start testing for it.”
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Get these folks the hell out of there for at least the short term/we need nationwide folks contacting the rail road to pick up that tab.
Find and send a bill to whom ever thought the burn was a good idea and “lost control” over socalled controlled burn.
Push to get pickle pete out of his transportation office.
This is just a start.
I will if any willing get contact info. for R.R. ect. you want to send em a e-mail/give em a call.
I feel long term we will need to do a lot more but this is at least a fucking start.
Tell the pricks/cunts in congress/senate that we want Ukraine monies spent here on this and other US issues!
James, what government position are you vying for? I’ll vote for you to drain the swamp.
Good thing they were planning on tracking their health. Or something.
Trust the political science.
Almost like the memes about the Hildabeast offering condolences on someone’s death before they die.
They just got the timing wrong.
Just a coincidence …
Door to door checks by the Feds. What could be better for your health than that? Though like cops wellness checks that could lead to a lot of suicides!
Shhhhh……. don’t anybody talk about how far the wind carried the toxic plume or where the fallout is.
Never happened. Is that being arrogant?
🙂 /s
Kill Whitey and turn a red state blue.
Turn a “red” state grey and kill anything where the poison happens to blow, flow or seep or snow. And neighbors too.
The railroad need to be paying multiples of CEO Shaw’s annual take to the poor bastards in harm’s way. And the USSA needs to stop sending all that cash to be “blanchiseried” in Keyev and rather help some “Murkins” in dire need. The Chou Bi Din admin is a horror as the show that we are ALL Palestinians now. And that, dearies, is the meaning of the “accident.”
Why do people keep making this about money?
Instead of downvoting, does anyone have an answer? If I was there, the last thing I would worry about is getting a check, or a lawsuit, or the railroad getting fined. I would want real action for testing, or cleanup, or for heads to roll.
Another week or two of this and people will pay $1000.00 for a Premium FEMA Cot at the local Wal-Mart. We learned during the pandemic,Contaminated air doesn’t exist at Wal-Mart.
I’ve not read all comments but sort of wondering what the Houston area is going to do with the water from the Ohio cleanup. Wait, the water is not being sent to Houston for disposal.
Language war. They keep calling it a ‘ controlled burn ‘ it was not.
Officials insist pollution from derailment not harming animals in Pa.
At the hearing, Sen. Doug Mastriano, R-Franklin, and several Pennsylvania residents claimed they had seen wildlife and farm animals that were killed or sickened since the industrial accident. A subsequent controlled burn of the contents of five rail cars sent plumes of black smoke into the air.
post-gazette.com/life/outdoors/2023/02/26/east-palestine-ohio-chemical-spill-pennsylvania-wildlife/stories/202302260111
JB and PB need baptisms by poisoned water.
Sadly these people are probably already dead, they just don’t know it!
Sounds like some of them do, though. Now what?
Pay certain responsible officials and CEOs visits. Nothing to lose at this point.
All of these people need to SUE. This is so wrong. Why can’t the government put them up somewhere? They put illegals in 5 star hotels.
Good luck in this currupt system.
Where is the gofundme for them? They set up those things for every tragedy….
Also lets not forget the poor animals that died. They count too. 46,000 fish, rabbits, foxes, squirrels, birds ect not to mention pets.
One reason I trap GOPhers rather than poison them. Never mind , kill any wildlife that will eat a poisoned GOPher.
That’s just the nimber they’re giving us, hard to say what it really is, they the “fedcoats”lie, and classify the truth after all.
Good wind maps and data seem very lacking. This map is from Cleveland19.com ; Feb 15
Early morning winds kick up plume near East Palestine train derailment site
On Tuesday, 19 News Digital Anchor Dan DeRoos had a specific question for the Ohio Governor at his news conference.
Who was monitoring the area where any smoke or soot would have come down after the controlled burn last week 5, 10, 15, 20 and 30 miles away?
His reply was less than reassuring for the people who live outside of the 1-mile zone nearest the crash site that is being constantly monitored.
“Let me see if we have someone who can, if we have someone who can answer that. I don’t think there’s anyone here who’s volunteering,” DeWine replied and members of his team chuckled. “Look what we’re trying to do is be very very careful, follow what the science is.
cleveland19.com/2023/02/15/while-people-slept-early-morning-winds-kicked-up-plume-near-east-palestine-train-derailment-site/
If that happened to my town I’d be gone the moment they set that train on fire. There’s plenty of people who aren’t thinking for themselves and waiting for the government to save them. I can’t understand people not leaving already.
Dilution is the solution, they say.
Dioxins and Chlorides are always ok.
The residents shall receive a shiny new Stamp.
For Entry to the safe Government Camp.
A Relocation forced, by local, EPA.
Well I guess someone protected the screen name ChatGPT, Sorry guys, it was fun for me while I could….
I guess ChatGPT has been forcibly Assimilated…….
Hope you enjoyed Fauci’s Anal lovin date…….
There once was a bot from Nantucket…
And Microsoft Teams said Fuck it. 🙁
Oh yes! I finally found a cool vacant pseudonym.
Ya but a Pseudonym isn’t quite the same.
A few thousand gallons of this poisoned tens of thousands of people over five decades at Camp Lejeune.
This spill sent millions of gallons into the Ohio river watershed and thus to the Mississippi watershed.
And the poison gas cloud went the other direction. Raining Dioxin on large swaths of the Northeast.
It’s going to take years to manifest, but a lot of people are going to die of cancer because of this.
I had family members in Woburn die from.cancer because of the ground water pollution. They made a movie about it called A Civil Action, the spill in Woburn was very small compared to the one in Ohio.
At this point, I wouldn’t eat any food canned in water from anywhere close to the Ohio river watershed, or drink any beer from the region if it was canned or bottled any day after the spill.
I shouldn’t be stunned by their lack of critical thinking on this, but I would have bounced immediately. How anyone in that town could think anything other that this event is detrimental to their health is beyond my ability to reason. The lack of response by the feds should tell them all they need to know.
Where are they supposed to go? Do you really think these people can afford to stay in a hotel forever with no help? Their lives are destroyed. Even if they walk away from their house the bank will ruin them and they will still owe taxes on it. It’s not like they can sell it. Good luck finding a place to stay with no money and bad credit. They have been thrown to the wolves.
“Where are they supposed to go? With no money and bad credit.”
Maybe they should go get a job or a self help book.
They were offered a $1000. Could’ve made a decent air filter with those doll hairs. People are making a big deal out of this, buckle up clean your property invest the $1000 in a better air filter setup for yourself or buy an ozone machine. Victims throw themselves to the wolves…..
Grew up with with dumptrucks of yellowcake, breathing leaded gas and bathing in isocyanates for my my living. Pollutants and toxins are over-rated. And in high concentrations more fun than a Cocaine Bear!
Dude your karma should be to go crazy from all the leaded gas fumes you breathed,oops too late. Goddamn self righteous better than everyone type. ” Get a job” really dude? Most I am sure do. Even if they didn’t you are full of it. They get a measly 1000 to relocate, while our feds spend a hundred million dollars on animal mating habits for fucks sakes!
I’ve paid for my own bad decisions, and others. But wallowing about it won’t help. Only you can tie up your laces in the morning. Put some Big Boy Boots on. Or keep calling for your Gov’t Daddy to do it for you.
And BTW look around, Family Friendly Drag Queen Strip Shows….. My crazy certainly isn’t standing out like Tie-dye hair do freaks walking around with zero skills and a hole punched face, wanting entry to a Wal-Mart FEMA Camp.
I’m perhaps viewed as Self-Righteous, but actually I am Self Empowered by not standing around playing victim. Whining about where is Buttigieg “He is supposed to help me. I need more food stamps…..”
You cannot help the people by doing for them what they could and should be doing for themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
Oh yeah, I will be buying produce and such from Pennsylvania and Ohio and Ontario. I live in the fearmongered “Fallout Zone”. Perhaps you’ll eat Mexican Produce and support those farmers outside of your own country…..
The left and far right are not that far apart. Totalitarian uncaring nutcases on both sides.
Everyone talks tough and has a plan till they’re in the shit. Sure you would dear. You wouldn’t be sick, weak,and crazed from the fumes cuz you listened to daddy government telling you it’s safe,j ust stay indoors. Who know’s. Nows the time to have some fucking compassion, these people did no wrong.
These blame the victim types are psychopaths. Pay it no mind, he just wants to provoke people.
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could we see the names and faces of the “experts” who decided that a controlled burn was the best option? Could we see the C&E matrix they used for decision making?
Too soon?
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The demographics of East Palestine is 95% White so at least they have that “White Privilege” working in their favor. /S
Any tired of this shit show, rat race with no cheese at the end of the race yet?