Oh cool, good to know we were told we were safe in Columbus. I'll look forward to my $3 check when I get cancer 10 years from now. Fuck these corporations.
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We need to stop calling this an accident. That implies no one is at fault and that it could not have been prevented. They knew the rails were bad and that they needed replaced and they fucking did nothing at all.
It's a GOOD THING those people are going to be electing MORE REPUBLICANS into office so we can ensure this happens AGAIN and AGAIN!
Make Ameri—☠️
Just moved to Pittsburgh. We were trying to stay away from housing in that area. Big sad.
The article says that area is "spanning 540,000 square miles from Wisconsin to Maine to South Carolina"
Came from AZ, and I definitely moved into it.
So, roughly a radius of ~415 Miles (667km).
Just moved to Pittsburgh… big sad
Pretty much
16 states affected, yet no Canadian provinces, apparently. Good thing smoke can't cross 5000 miles of open border…
laughs in 2023 smoke from Canadian wildfires
It's a study by a US organization. Why would it have access to information about Canadian territory? Also...what does an open border have to do with anything? Do you expect either country to be able to block those sorts of things?
Bastards.