Prayers for the Amish Community
Approximately 62.5 percent of the North American Amish population lives in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Directly in the path of the toxic cloud created by the Palestine, OH train derailment and decision to burn off the toxic vinyl chloride.
Everyone in that region needs prayers, but my heart went out when I realized the Amish community is likely to be very hard hit. And since they aren't online news channels not likely to know what is going on.
We don't know the extent of toxicity from the water and air pollutants and I am working to find out.
Media sources are difficult to trust. The EPA says the drinking water is safe and don't worry, alternative media is screaming "disaster". People near Palestine are reporting chickens and horses dead. You know, the internet...
I've been asked "what soil remediation can be done for dioxins?". I am searching high and low for solutions and please, please let me know if you find anything.
Here is the link for that thread if you can help research this. https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/849106/can-you-help-with-research-dioxins-in-soils-safe-levels-remediation-half-life/p1?new=1
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I did not think of them so thank you for alerting everyone to the Amish and I hope their neighbors help them out! My prayers are with them!🙏
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@Marjory Wildcraft They will know. They do have strong connections to the "outside" world in spite of people thinking that they do not. This, of course, will not lessen the dangers posed to their farming way of life. That is still a real problem.
I do have "news" connections here (both modern & quite traditional Amish/Mennonite) to the Mennonite communities there who will live close to those communities. Some have close friends and most likely, relatives in the area. My contacts are busy through today with unrelated stuff. Tomorrow, I will see if they have heard anything directly at all about the situation or if they know about how folks down there are coping through their own points of contact.
It certainly is an awful event.
We have talked in the past (and now again recently) about how close we might be to a buried pipeline (one blew up & caught fire due to a weak spot many years ago, but thankfully was not close to us) or railroad tracks. There have been derailments in Manitoba, but none that carried dangerous cargo.
We are fairly close to a main line track and depending on location & how things could travel in an event such as this, we could be at risk. It makes the idea of moving further away and north of these types of chemical transport routes very appealing.
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Here is a link to an article explaining the dangers present.
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Thank you @LaurieLovesLearning
When I lived in rural Texas and was prepping (of course) I figured we would never need gas masks... thats for city folks and crowd control.
I'm not going out to buy masks now, but geeezz
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Thank you @LaurieLovesLearning I like Visual Capitalists reports as it generally focuses on known "facts".
But this is deeply concerning:
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Monday, February 6th: Responders conducted a controlled burn of toxic materials to destroy the remaining vinyl chloride, which posed a threat of explosion and subsequent toxic fumes and shrapnel. Because of this the standing evacuation order was extended to include a larger area. From the Ohio governor’s announcement:
“The controlled release process involves the burning of the rail cars’ chemicals, which will release fumes into the air that can be deadly if inhaled. Based on current weather patterns and the expected flow of the smoke and fumes, anyone who remains in the red affected area is facing grave danger of death.” – MIKE DEWINE
Wednesday, February 8th: Just days later, the governor announced that it was safe for residents to return home as air quality tests were coming back clean.
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So it is lethal one day, and then safe a few days later? What about residues on - everything? But especially the soil? And that cloud moving..... what is being dumped where.
I do recall the saying (from the 60's "the solution to pollution is dilution"
So I am wondering how much dispersal happened and how far out has it reached? What levels of chemicals in the soils are there? How big is this mess? Is there anything we can do to help?
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Agreed. It is a horrible situation and the truth of the gravity of the problem is getting almost no mainstream media coverage.
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Here's the only thing I've seen about how to detox from dioxin -Broccoli sprouts.
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Broccoli sprouts apparently are like super heroes. Real ones.
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saw Mike talking about the broccoli sprouts on Birghteon.
I am reminded of the Love Canal story. That was not brought to light until a large amount of private testing and private injuries were reported.
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True... and I won't say much about it but if there was honest testing of the Cape Fear River near the Smithfield pork plant in Tarheel, NC, it would shock the world! But, a big plant up river that made teflon already gave everyone downstream cancer and auto-immune diseases. No one cares. The local cops were busted by the feds for drug and human trafficking, murder and kidnapping for the Mexican cartels... it barely made the local news!
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This is so very upsetting. Lifting everyone affected up in prayers. 😔
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Toxicity in the soil is going to be a long-time problem. Going forward it will be very difficult to farm in the area. Such a tragedy.
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Agreed! What I am wondering is how big of an area? That cloud looked huge and it takees such a tiny amount of dioxins to be toxic... AH!
And our own Gov't made the decision to burn it?
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@Marjory Wildcraft I'm chatting with a friend right now. Some that they know are within 8 miles of the wreck and they know some right beside. There are pretty direct connections.
I can keep you updated as she asks them about ways others may be able to help.
Depending on the news I get, I may post some here, or might pass on info via a pm.
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Wow, that is very close in. I'm sure that land is heavily contaminated.
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