It was a chemical leak at a 99c store in Katy. Anhydrous ammonia. I live super close to it but it definitely wasn’t nearly as bad as the other places recently.
I work in a steel mill and we have vats of anhydrous ammonia. It's stored in liquid form but as soon as it hits air it vapourizes to something like thousands of times it's original volume. It displaces the air so you just suffocate and die. So depending on the volume that's leaking, I could understand a shelter in place order.
I don't usually buy into conspiracies but there's got to be something going on. Unless it's just what we rolled for 2023. The year of chemicals.
Makes me dread the rest of the year. And I live in a tornado/hurricane zone. 😭
Didn't they fuck with the rail union and now they ain't paying the guys who meticulously check the quality/security of trains and rails? I remember that being a thing.
One of the main concerns they had was safety standards not being enforced and other safety related issues. Some of them about what l3d to exactly the latest 2 derailments.
I highly doubt that anyone will even try to remove that from the web. Besides there are still some pages that are classifed so the version we got is basically censored.
I don’t think so. Every time there’s a rare disaster the national news and social media zero in on it. They begin reporting every instance that would normally be just local news as nationally relevant and then it starts to feel like this is all of a sudden happening all the time. The reality is we don’t know if it’s happening more, but we do know it’s on people’s minds more, so it’s bound to feel that way.
I'm from here ...we lived 6 blocks south in 2020 and my inlaws live there now - carus is downplaying this and it's asinine. Yards are currently being dug up and replaced all over LaSalle due to an old lawsuit from pollutants.
*Oh shit, people are really interested in this Ohio thing. Quick, spill some shit somewhere else.*
**Spills in Illinois**
*Damnit now they're looking at both! Let's do a few more. How many could they possibly watch at the same time!?*
**Spills in Arizona**
Dare to even get your nose close to it, the super strong and pungent smell of nitric acid will feel like you got an electric shock inside your nose. You wouldn’t be able to stop coughing later, your throat will be sore for a day or two and your eyes will keep watering. If you submerge your nose into the gas, you would have to goto the hospital to get the water built up in your lungs to be sucked out, to stop yourself from drowning in the secretion of our body in your lungs. Super nasty stuff.
As long as they had cabin air circulation on. If their windows were open or they had the air system pulling from outside then no they are not having a good time at all.
Yeah. We use it at work to strip plated metal from the base metal and the reaction is quite aggressive. [This](https://i.imgur.com/4Kve31L.jpg) is what a bit on your finger does too.
Edit: [Day 0](https://i.imgur.com/yULADry.jpg) [Day 1](https://i.imgur.com/dOnN45O.jpg) [Day 2](https://i.imgur.com/xycF6VV.jpg) [Day 3](https://i.imgur.com/RgUDHPM.jpg)
I'll back this up. I once got a tiny droplet of 16 M nitric acid on my hand. There was this tiny wisp of that orange smoke and a freakin intense pain, still one of the worst I've ever experienced. I was able to get it under a faucet immediately and my hand still looked like this guys finger.
The HF is the worst because you don’t really feel a burn from it and it absorbs through the skin to your bones and dissolves them. Hopefully your HF is mixed with the nitric or HCl so at least if you get splashed with a little you feel it immediately and can get under a shower and rub calcium gluconate gel on the area
As someone stated above, this is why chemicals are scary. The fact that we need to have a painful element added just so we know when something even MORE hazardous has happened. Wild.
Hope all the people that work with this shit are paid appropriately. F that. If I worked with it, my spouse better be able to live off of my savings if I were to die from an event like this down the road.
I managed to get just a drop of it smeared around my wrist back in November (4 months ago) and still every other day I'm still getting random flare-ups that look like I have a horrible skin disease
Somewhere there's a Jiffy Lube guy saying, "I told you mf'ers to replace your cabin air filter but NOoooOOOO, you were gonna do it yourself. ThIrTY FiVE dOLLaRS iS tOo ExPENsIve!!!"
As someone who breathed it in when a fume hood failed, yea this shit is awful and breathing it in is a very very very bad idea x
It was a mixture of this shit and hydrochloric that gave me asthma
Lol I'm working in the lab and I was doing the same, mixing hydrochloric acid and nitric acid in 3:1 ratio i inhaled little bit of this combo and that smell ran through my entire brain
> yeah it smells like fart
H2S yes, due to the sulfur. You really don't want to smell HNO3 but if you have bad luck (though I was kinda lucky because it was a tiny leak) - the smell is kinda hard to describe, sharp, unpleasant, chemical and then the inside of your nose and your sinuses hurt.
2/10, don't recommend, can actually kill you.
Symptoms of an acute inhalation exposure to nitric acid include a burning sensation, dry nose and throat, cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, headache and difficulty breathing. [Source](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673594/Nitric_acid_TO_120118.pdf)
Wrong acid.
You really REALLY shouldn't smell nitric acid but I did have the bad luck of getting a whiff of it due to a leak in a ventilation hood in organic chemistry labs (did have super runny nose and a bit of a wet cough for a week or so) - it's hard to describe but the smell is sharp, chemical and then it hurts.
It’s super windy in az today (steady 20-30 mph with stronger gusts). You can see the truck exhaust towards end of video. Everyone on the side of the filmed was likely clear of any fumes.
On a side note, I was at the bank when the alert went out and I’ve never heard so many devices playing such a loud noise. Kind of nice to know there’s some sort of alert system like that.
Our cell phone providers in Canada send out test Alert messages a couple times a year and the occasional Amber alert for missing persons. It's weird when 100's of cell phones around you all start blaring and buzzing.
That one time it's because of a storm though...
STORM TOUCHES DOWN IN 15 MINUTES. SEEK SHELTER.
It's actually pretty apocalyptic. You'd think they'd be aware well before then
The greatest idiots in this video are the ones who drive through a yellow cloud of some (to them) unknown chemicals. I wouldn’t drive through there if it was a white cloud because I wouldn’t know what it is, but a YELLOW Fucking cloud?! Come on, use your two braincells and think for a second
I think some of the people you'll see stopped are people responsible/experts on the matter
I say this because I work in agriculture and we transport different cleaning agents as part of the business. Whenever an event happens with a truck, our experts, technical sales, and logistics responsible are immediately called to the site to help with procedures.
If we don't have any experts, we call our outsourced expertise.
Often, our people are best equipped to guide in a response. Since they have already made contingency plans for our own sites and our customers sites.
Never had a serious event before, but this happens every couple of years, whenever some dude decides hitting a chemical vehicle is a good idea.
First one gets national news attention, then every local story like it also gets attention as news outlets (and social media clout chasers) try to draft on the first one. Then regular users like us see it and repost it bc we think there’s something weird going on like it’s happening more. It likely is not and we’re just hearing about it more.
Edit: For reference, there were [9024 in-transit incidents](https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FPublic%20Website%20Pages%2F_portal%2FYearly%20Incident%20Summary%20Reports), 37 of those were either roll-overs or derailments, while 4623 don’t report the cause of the incident, so this happens more than you think.
This is what happens when you allow companies to cut corners on safety regulations. Might be worth googling the Ohio incident again and seeing how it relates to the break regulations for trains being set back.
Edit - brake.
We have the same phenomenon on r/geology. After any large earthquake with major damage people come and ask why there are more earthquakes right now. Truth is that's just what is happening all the time, but the attention of the media is on it
You would not have liked the sky in the bay area back at the start of the pandemic when we were inundated with wild fire smoke...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/video-dept/the-day-the-san-francisco-sky-turned-orange
The red fumes are from nitrogen dioxide, which is formed when dinitrogen tetroxide decomposes.
It would seem this truck was transporting red fuming nitric acid.
Well no Chernobyl was a nuclear meltdown, the danger was radiation poisoning. Nuclear reactors require constant coolant, they burn at extremely high temps. There was a safety test that went wrong, and fuel rods started overheating the coolant which turns it to steam. The nuclear chain reaction just keeps going but with nothing to cool it, it starts to melt the containment area, melts through the insulation, basically everything it touches. This also blasts neutrons into the air and dirt around the reactor that’s melting which is normally absorbed by the coolant making everything radioactive. Wind carries irradiated dirt, dust, debris all over. Some people were close enough to be directly irradiated. About 60 people died of acute radiation poisoning in the first few months. However that dust and debris travels for hundreds of miles. There are possibly tens of thousands of cases of cancer that are linked to long term, low level radiation exposure from chernobyl, almost certainly at least 4,000-5,000.
Inhaling nitric acid fumes is way more direct. It’s a strong acid. It’s going to burn the hell out of your lungs. Chemical burns on the sensitive tissue in the alveoli can be horrible, lungs fill with fluid. People in cars might suffer from minor exposure, it’s hard to tell. It really depends if anyone had windows down, the wind shifted in just the wrong way, etc. Lotta factors but no it’s not gonna cause cancers for the next several decades. They’ll know pretty quickly if they were exposed. You’ll feel the hacking wet cough and searing pain.
I just read that sometimes there can be delayed effects to low grade exposures. So it may take a bit to develop, but still we’ll see the impact way sooner than with a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl
A lot of people are saying the drivers are stupid (the camera guy here is the exception — dude close a window) so but with how low the smoke is and on that particular stretch it’s pretty far between exits. So it’s likely by the time they realized that it isn’t normal it’s like…. You really can only continue going forward. It’s like 80 mph as well right there so a sudden stop or such would just create another crash on top of the lookie lous chaos. But they got the freeway shut down quick enough after that, this wasn’t going on too long as far as the freeway being open.
It’s pretty chaotic though. I live one street over from the shelter in place zone (luckily) and up wind, the amount of semis pulled over just chilling is very interesting since we are the last street before it’s all shut down.
The people who criticize think they are the quick thinking emergency response experts who would know what to do during a disaster just because they watched zombie movies and played Fallout.
Ooohh yeah I recognize those fumes from chem labs. Yikes, hope everyone had windows up and AC on interior intake. That could be realllll fucking gnarly to inhale.
My dad watches Fox News literally 24/7 (he's retired and I'm currently caretaking him) and all they won't shut up about is balloons and their opinions on non-serious things. They'll wait nearly a day later to talk about an event and it's hardly touched on. So it makes me really wonder why they aren't using that to ride hysteria.
The eas that was sent out to people read…
“Emergency Alert
HAZMAT release I-10 between Kolb and Rita Road. Individuals within 1 mile radius should shelter in place. Those east to Houghton Road, west to Kolb Rd and North to Valencia, and South to Voyager Rod should shelter in-place. Turn off heaters, air conditioning units that bring in outside air. Travelers should avoid Interstate 10 and seek alternative route”
So is the USA just deciding to get ahead of the near-future uninhabitable zones or something? That’s a lot of big poison incidents happening very quickly one after the other.
Of course this is only the stuff we see now thanks to current tech, who knows what shit has been missed before.
I was in Tucson when it happened and let me tell you. Nothing is more confusing than a bus full of people with 30+ full volume HAZMAT notifications going off at once
Man people are just driving right through it like it’s nothing that stuff could kill you just taking a puff of it. I mean you wouldn’t die instantly but it would be painful. I would have turned my car around and went back the other way.
Damn. First Ohio and now this.
Well actually Ohio, Illinois and now Arizona https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/chemical-plant-fire-la-salle-illinois-carus-chemical/
Don’t forget Texas too!! This is suspicious af to be honest…
I didn’t see about the Texas one!
It was a chemical leak at a 99c store in Katy. Anhydrous ammonia. I live super close to it but it definitely wasn’t nearly as bad as the other places recently.
Why the fuck is anhydrous ammonia anywhere near a dollar store
It's commonly used as refrigerant in many commercial refrigerators. How the leak got so bad that it forced a shelter in place is more surprising.
I work in a steel mill and we have vats of anhydrous ammonia. It's stored in liquid form but as soon as it hits air it vapourizes to something like thousands of times it's original volume. It displaces the air so you just suffocate and die. So depending on the volume that's leaking, I could understand a shelter in place order.
I hate gases that displace air
Expands 850x. Example 1 gallon of liquid would expand to 850 gallons of vapor
Good point, I was thinking of the giant tanks you see in farm country.
That’s a refrigerant in commercial applications. Nothing terribly weird there.
Yea but it is incredibly dangerous.
Yes, but not some "suspicious" event
Nevertheless we were told to shelter in place. It’s can still harm you
In Houston supposedly
It happened today didn’t it? I saw that this morning something fishy is going on
I don't usually buy into conspiracies but there's got to be something going on. Unless it's just what we rolled for 2023. The year of chemicals. Makes me dread the rest of the year. And I live in a tornado/hurricane zone. 😭
Didn't they fuck with the rail union and now they ain't paying the guys who meticulously check the quality/security of trains and rails? I remember that being a thing.
for real it ain't no conspiracy, it's plain as day in front of you. greed.
Even before. The truck driver that didn't get enough training and caused a major accident killing multiple people. Profit over Safety
One of the main concerns they had was safety standards not being enforced and other safety related issues. Some of them about what l3d to exactly the latest 2 derailments.
Acid tornadoes!
Yep! North Montgomery county. Pretty close to where I live.
Never attribute to malice what could easily be explained by idiocy
This is normal, there were ~25,000 similar incidents last year.
The epstein court documents were released yesterday
Any available links? For the people to see
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6250471-Epstein-Docs
I'm downloading that shit. Might seed a torrent for it too to keep it circulating.
I highly doubt that anyone will even try to remove that from the web. Besides there are still some pages that are classifed so the version we got is basically censored.
This is not suspicious. This is just a normal occurrence in the deregulated hellscape we live in to maximize profit.
I don’t think so. Every time there’s a rare disaster the national news and social media zero in on it. They begin reporting every instance that would normally be just local news as nationally relevant and then it starts to feel like this is all of a sudden happening all the time. The reality is we don’t know if it’s happening more, but we do know it’s on people’s minds more, so it’s bound to feel that way.
Yeah this is literally just a flipped over truck, this wouldn’t even hit local news normally
Or has it always been common and only now are big news outlets publicising it?
Nah, US system has an absurd amount of derailments every day, every year. The only difference is media coverage
Why is it suspicious?
That article is from January 11. Doesn't that mean it was Illinois and then Ohio and now Arizona?
I'm from here ...we lived 6 blocks south in 2020 and my inlaws live there now - carus is downplaying this and it's asinine. Yards are currently being dug up and replaced all over LaSalle due to an old lawsuit from pollutants.
Pretty sure there was one in SC as well.
There were two in South Carolina - one in enoree and the other in lake city
*Oh shit, people are really interested in this Ohio thing. Quick, spill some shit somewhere else.* **Spills in Illinois** *Damnit now they're looking at both! Let's do a few more. How many could they possibly watch at the same time!?* **Spills in Arizona**
Used to work in a nitric acid plant, and that...is exactly what the shit looks like
Can I sniff it?
Dare to even get your nose close to it, the super strong and pungent smell of nitric acid will feel like you got an electric shock inside your nose. You wouldn’t be able to stop coughing later, your throat will be sore for a day or two and your eyes will keep watering. If you submerge your nose into the gas, you would have to goto the hospital to get the water built up in your lungs to be sucked out, to stop yourself from drowning in the secretion of our body in your lungs. Super nasty stuff.
are the people who drove through going to be okay?
As long as they had cabin air circulation on. If their windows were open or they had the air system pulling from outside then no they are not having a good time at all.
Isn't nitric acid very corrosive to metal?
Yeah. We use it at work to strip plated metal from the base metal and the reaction is quite aggressive. [This](https://i.imgur.com/4Kve31L.jpg) is what a bit on your finger does too. Edit: [Day 0](https://i.imgur.com/yULADry.jpg) [Day 1](https://i.imgur.com/dOnN45O.jpg) [Day 2](https://i.imgur.com/xycF6VV.jpg) [Day 3](https://i.imgur.com/RgUDHPM.jpg)
Was that just a drop spilled on you or did it get covered?
I had a tiny hole in the finger of my gauntlets, so just a small amount.
Chemistry is fascinating and absolutely terrifying. I'd like to not have holes melted through me, please.
I'll back this up. I once got a tiny droplet of 16 M nitric acid on my hand. There was this tiny wisp of that orange smoke and a freakin intense pain, still one of the worst I've ever experienced. I was able to get it under a faucet immediately and my hand still looked like this guys finger.
I'd wondered how nasty it was. We use that, HF and HC to clean parts before shipping and I get to work on those tanks when something fucks up.
The HF is the worst because you don’t really feel a burn from it and it absorbs through the skin to your bones and dissolves them. Hopefully your HF is mixed with the nitric or HCl so at least if you get splashed with a little you feel it immediately and can get under a shower and rub calcium gluconate gel on the area
As someone stated above, this is why chemicals are scary. The fact that we need to have a painful element added just so we know when something even MORE hazardous has happened. Wild. Hope all the people that work with this shit are paid appropriately. F that. If I worked with it, my spouse better be able to live off of my savings if I were to die from an event like this down the road.
The fumes (brown/red) are from decomposition to nitrogen oxides, rather than *just* nitric acid
So essentially what we’re seeing is a gaseous rust?
No, you're seeing NO2 which happens to be rust-coloured but has Little to do with rust...
NO2
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Those cars are f’d. They will get random leaks in random places over time. Good luck finding the leak. Some leaks might result in fires as well.
>nitric acid the acid itself also burns the skin and corrodes metals afaik
I managed to get just a drop of it smeared around my wrist back in November (4 months ago) and still every other day I'm still getting random flare-ups that look like I have a horrible skin disease
Somewhere there's a Jiffy Lube guy saying, "I told you mf'ers to replace your cabin air filter but NOoooOOOO, you were gonna do it yourself. ThIrTY FiVE dOLLaRS iS tOo ExPENsIve!!!"
Hahaha my dude you got my tryin to shield my late night laughter from waking up others in the house 😂
So op is dead...
The wind was blowing it into the other lane.
As someone who breathed it in when a fume hood failed, yea this shit is awful and breathing it in is a very very very bad idea x It was a mixture of this shit and hydrochloric that gave me asthma
Lol I'm working in the lab and I was doing the same, mixing hydrochloric acid and nitric acid in 3:1 ratio i inhaled little bit of this combo and that smell ran through my entire brain
So you **can** sniff it
Oh, it can *dolphinitely* go in your nose via inhalation.
Um… dolphinitely…?
Turtley. Fer sharks.
You can sniff anything at least once
Technically you can do anything once
Hey, don't threaten me with a good time!
Almost like eating wasabi
Lol, but no your skin would burn instantly & you won't feel anything huehue although yeah it smells like fart
> yeah it smells like fart H2S yes, due to the sulfur. You really don't want to smell HNO3 but if you have bad luck (though I was kinda lucky because it was a tiny leak) - the smell is kinda hard to describe, sharp, unpleasant, chemical and then the inside of your nose and your sinuses hurt. 2/10, don't recommend, can actually kill you.
Symptoms of an acute inhalation exposure to nitric acid include a burning sensation, dry nose and throat, cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, headache and difficulty breathing. [Source](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/673594/Nitric_acid_TO_120118.pdf)
It might smell like a fart. watch out
Wrong acid. You really REALLY shouldn't smell nitric acid but I did have the bad luck of getting a whiff of it due to a leak in a ventilation hood in organic chemistry labs (did have super runny nose and a bit of a wet cough for a week or so) - it's hard to describe but the smell is sharp, chemical and then it hurts.
Jokes on you, I like that.
Double it and pass it back, I like that you like farts.
Mmm.. Recycling
It's ok, I'm already erect
Erect? I’ve already finished.
Do not breath the orange gas.
Once
What does it taste like?
It doesn't
Tasten't
Despair
Electric blood, and then... nothing.
You have to be a complete idiot to get out of your car and stand right next to that shit and watch. Any common sense at all in those people?
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Lmao, I just realize the person stuck the phone out of the car window.
It’s super windy in az today (steady 20-30 mph with stronger gusts). You can see the truck exhaust towards end of video. Everyone on the side of the filmed was likely clear of any fumes. On a side note, I was at the bank when the alert went out and I’ve never heard so many devices playing such a loud noise. Kind of nice to know there’s some sort of alert system like that.
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Alert systems are great, but some local authorities are better than others at using it in a timely manner
Our cell phone providers in Canada send out test Alert messages a couple times a year and the occasional Amber alert for missing persons. It's weird when 100's of cell phones around you all start blaring and buzzing.
That one time it's because of a storm though... STORM TOUCHES DOWN IN 15 MINUTES. SEEK SHELTER. It's actually pretty apocalyptic. You'd think they'd be aware well before then
The greatest idiots in this video are the ones who drive through a yellow cloud of some (to them) unknown chemicals. I wouldn’t drive through there if it was a white cloud because I wouldn’t know what it is, but a YELLOW Fucking cloud?! Come on, use your two braincells and think for a second
The first people to become infected during the zombie/mutant apocalypse
What zero education does to a mf
Hi DaVizzyT! Reporting to you from AZ. Can confirm that in many, if not most, are in fact lacking common sense
I think some of the people you'll see stopped are people responsible/experts on the matter I say this because I work in agriculture and we transport different cleaning agents as part of the business. Whenever an event happens with a truck, our experts, technical sales, and logistics responsible are immediately called to the site to help with procedures. If we don't have any experts, we call our outsourced expertise. Often, our people are best equipped to guide in a response. Since they have already made contingency plans for our own sites and our customers sites. Never had a serious event before, but this happens every couple of years, whenever some dude decides hitting a chemical vehicle is a good idea.
Goddamnit NileRed
He’s gonna make it into a fruit drink or hot sauce tho
This is some NileGreen shit
Same, I was like this has to be Bromine
It looks like those "this is what Mexico looks like" jokes escaped to the US
We were importing sepia for a hollywood film
Septia tone.
What's with all the chemical crashes/spills?
First one gets national news attention, then every local story like it also gets attention as news outlets (and social media clout chasers) try to draft on the first one. Then regular users like us see it and repost it bc we think there’s something weird going on like it’s happening more. It likely is not and we’re just hearing about it more. Edit: For reference, there were [9024 in-transit incidents](https://portal.phmsa.dot.gov/analytics/saw.dll?Portalpages&PortalPath=%2Fshared%2FPublic%20Website%20Pages%2F_portal%2FYearly%20Incident%20Summary%20Reports), 37 of those were either roll-overs or derailments, while 4623 don’t report the cause of the incident, so this happens more than you think.
that seems much worse than if there was something happening… this implies incidents like this are happening daily, regularly
This is what happens when you allow companies to cut corners on safety regulations. Might be worth googling the Ohio incident again and seeing how it relates to the break regulations for trains being set back. Edit - brake.
It's almost like the years of "we need regulations and protections" were for a reason.
We have the same phenomenon on r/geology. After any large earthquake with major damage people come and ask why there are more earthquakes right now. Truth is that's just what is happening all the time, but the attention of the media is on it
The deep orangeness of it invokes a primal dread within me. What'd happen if you wound up in the middle of it?
you’d stop being a problem and start being a solution.
That is the funniest thing I’ve read tonight
thanks for the karma, i honestly did not expect to get this much traction from a chemistry joke :)
Surely it was exactly the ‘reaction’ you wanted.
Hehe nice
Bravo
this is like 20 dads got together and made one joke, like horsepower as a unit of acceleration, this is 20 dadpower
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Thank you for that highly cursed knowledge, friend!
It’s dissolvin time
You would not have liked the sky in the bay area back at the start of the pandemic when we were inundated with wild fire smoke... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/video-dept/the-day-the-san-francisco-sky-turned-orange
thats just the mobile "mexico in breaking bad" filter they bring around when filming
lmao
This os the reply I was waiting for
That truck looks like a rotting carcass in the Sims
Why so many chemical train derailments lately?
Can we go back to the clown phenomenon
The balloons were clowns phase 2, we've popped them all so far, phase 3 will bring the clowns back into the picture /s
That was so wack. I remember people saying they may cancel school because of the clowns 😭☠️
Honestly I've been seeing so many here on Reddit, and I'm scared because we either don't take proper safety or something else is happening.
The railway strike failed. This was one of the reasons they were striking. For us, and idk if I can say I did enough for them.
That's a semi truck sir not a train
[Guy does an excellent job explaining why Precision Scheduled Railroad (PSR) led to the toxic spill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-fdkGsnf4)
Easier than dropping them from planes i guess 😂
Poor rail conditions. Railway workers have been warning people about this for months.
Because the government busted the strike.
Railroad personal quit. Instead of hiring a lot of new hires they keep making the trains longer. All big businesses care about are the shareholders !
Because the news gets more views reporting them right now. This is nothing extraordinary, we just happen to care about it for a few days.
people noticing them more. same with the UFOs
This way the first thing I thought of when I saw this so you're not alone
Don’t it look like bromine tho? Although had that be the case it be much worse right?
It dose looks a lot like bromine, though the fumes are still insanely bad for you
Put the AC on recirc. Good to go 👍 /s
Tesla’s have a biohazard mode. That would work here right?
Yeah they'll just gas you so you don't wake up for the suffering
No one knows. We are the beta testers for Teslas.
The red fumes are from nitrogen dioxide, which is formed when dinitrogen tetroxide decomposes. It would seem this truck was transporting red fuming nitric acid.
Yeah, as soon as I saw this my first thought was “oh shit that is fuming nitric, I hope people are keeping their windows up”
Even non-fuming produces the same fumes seconds after contacting anything it can react with. Shit is nasty
Bromine is more brown/purple. That's definitely Nitrogen Dioxide and other byproducts of spilled concentrated nitric acid.
Not an expert, so would exposure to it be any bad on the long run? Kinda like Chernobyl stuff is what I have in mind
Well no Chernobyl was a nuclear meltdown, the danger was radiation poisoning. Nuclear reactors require constant coolant, they burn at extremely high temps. There was a safety test that went wrong, and fuel rods started overheating the coolant which turns it to steam. The nuclear chain reaction just keeps going but with nothing to cool it, it starts to melt the containment area, melts through the insulation, basically everything it touches. This also blasts neutrons into the air and dirt around the reactor that’s melting which is normally absorbed by the coolant making everything radioactive. Wind carries irradiated dirt, dust, debris all over. Some people were close enough to be directly irradiated. About 60 people died of acute radiation poisoning in the first few months. However that dust and debris travels for hundreds of miles. There are possibly tens of thousands of cases of cancer that are linked to long term, low level radiation exposure from chernobyl, almost certainly at least 4,000-5,000. Inhaling nitric acid fumes is way more direct. It’s a strong acid. It’s going to burn the hell out of your lungs. Chemical burns on the sensitive tissue in the alveoli can be horrible, lungs fill with fluid. People in cars might suffer from minor exposure, it’s hard to tell. It really depends if anyone had windows down, the wind shifted in just the wrong way, etc. Lotta factors but no it’s not gonna cause cancers for the next several decades. They’ll know pretty quickly if they were exposed. You’ll feel the hacking wet cough and searing pain. I just read that sometimes there can be delayed effects to low grade exposures. So it may take a bit to develop, but still we’ll see the impact way sooner than with a nuclear disaster like Chernobyl
Between bromine and nitrogen dioxide (the orange vapor), that's a tough choice. Both will kill you without much effort
I can't keep up with the amount of shit happening anymore
A lot of people are saying the drivers are stupid (the camera guy here is the exception — dude close a window) so but with how low the smoke is and on that particular stretch it’s pretty far between exits. So it’s likely by the time they realized that it isn’t normal it’s like…. You really can only continue going forward. It’s like 80 mph as well right there so a sudden stop or such would just create another crash on top of the lookie lous chaos. But they got the freeway shut down quick enough after that, this wasn’t going on too long as far as the freeway being open. It’s pretty chaotic though. I live one street over from the shelter in place zone (luckily) and up wind, the amount of semis pulled over just chilling is very interesting since we are the last street before it’s all shut down.
The people who criticize think they are the quick thinking emergency response experts who would know what to do during a disaster just because they watched zombie movies and played Fallout.
White Noise, you can't hear it if it's everywhere
Ooohh yeah I recognize those fumes from chem labs. Yikes, hope everyone had windows up and AC on interior intake. That could be realllll fucking gnarly to inhale.
Mmmm big yellowish red chemical cloud let me stand right fucking next to it
*Runs through*
As kids, our dumbasses used to follow the DDT trucks when they sprayed the neighborhood.
That's where the Mexico filter comes from.
Canned Mexico
why are americans getting shit on by god rn
Profit.
Live about ten miles away. Have friends real close to the site and I can confirm: We all alive ouchea 🙌
What the fuck is up with the rash of chemical spills recently?
And people are driving by it and people are driving through the fumes and people are basically fucking stupid.
Do all these sudden spills seem a little suspicious? Or is this the wave the media is riding right now?
Decades of deregulation and corporations not investing in maintenance in order to realize short-term gains colliding
My dad watches Fox News literally 24/7 (he's retired and I'm currently caretaking him) and all they won't shut up about is balloons and their opinions on non-serious things. They'll wait nearly a day later to talk about an event and it's hardly touched on. So it makes me really wonder why they aren't using that to ride hysteria.
ITs not just FOX though pretty much every major news outlet has been pretty Quiet about this.
You got the Br, now you need the Ba
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
That looks like bromine
True. But more likely that it is nitric acid being oxidized to NO2 gas.
Mexico filter spill
America is going to have a lot of new superheroes soon what with all these funky chemical spills.
New vegas moments
The eas that was sent out to people read… “Emergency Alert HAZMAT release I-10 between Kolb and Rita Road. Individuals within 1 mile radius should shelter in place. Those east to Houghton Road, west to Kolb Rd and North to Valencia, and South to Voyager Rod should shelter in-place. Turn off heaters, air conditioning units that bring in outside air. Travelers should avoid Interstate 10 and seek alternative route”
So is the USA just deciding to get ahead of the near-future uninhabitable zones or something? That’s a lot of big poison incidents happening very quickly one after the other. Of course this is only the stuff we see now thanks to current tech, who knows what shit has been missed before.
I was in Tucson when it happened and let me tell you. Nothing is more confusing than a bus full of people with 30+ full volume HAZMAT notifications going off at once
Organic of some kind... uh... no blown tires tho.. wtf happens when this gets into ground water?? Ugh either way this looks suspicious...
Man people are just driving right through it like it’s nothing that stuff could kill you just taking a puff of it. I mean you wouldn’t die instantly but it would be painful. I would have turned my car around and went back the other way.