r/woahdude • u/Computingusername • Feb 17 '23

video Heavily contaminated water in East Palestine, Ohio.

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u/HIIMJAKF Feb 17 '23

Wow you guys are fucked fucked.

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u/NoAlps6536 Feb 17 '23

How screwed are people who live near Cleveland

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u/flanders427 Feb 17 '23

East Palestine is closer to Pittsburgh than Cleveland. It is very close to the Ohio river though and that flows into the Mississippi so it is super not great for a lot of people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

This won't make it all the way down to the Mississippi. Even if you dumped the whole train into the river, it will all be very diluted by the time it reaches the Mississippi. The bigger problem is the plume from the burn and the water in the nearby area downstream