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  • I hear you on that.  Well now, because of deadlines, someone has lost part of their shipment (its leaking out causing a hazmat situation) and also all those cars and three locomotives are wrecked.  I don't know if anyone was hurt.  Human life and the environment is more important than whatever was being hauled on that train.  Oh, and who gets to foot that bill?  Oh let me guess.  Insurance company will foot the bill I bet.  And who pays for the hazmat people?  It would have been much less costly if common sense were used in the first place.

    What was weird is the hazmat people had one of the capsule shaped black cars wrapped in white plastic.  I wonder what was in that one.

    Cheryl Nelson said:

    I'm afraid deadlines and bottom lines are more important than common sense these days.

    Kim B said:

    I am watching live feeds of helicopters flying over devastated areas of NC.  You wouldn't believe the stupid things people are doing.  Also a freight train went barreling over tracks that were weakened by flooding.  It derailed big time, and now its a hazmat situation as they were hauling chemicals.   What the heck were they thinking taking a train through flooded tracks? Are people that daft???

  • I'm afraid deadlines and bottom lines are more important than common sense these days.

    Kim B said:

    I am watching live feeds of helicopters flying over devastated areas of NC.  You wouldn't believe the stupid things people are doing.  Also a freight train went barreling over tracks that were weakened by flooding.  It derailed big time, and now its a hazmat situation as they were hauling chemicals.   What the heck were they thinking taking a train through flooded tracks? Are people that daft???

  • Schools were close here today, for no reason (except maybe the backwoods areas).  The main roads were open.

    Kim B said:

    What takes the cake here was seeing a video taken this morning of a school bus with children going through flood waters.  What in the world is this school bus driver thinking and why arent schools closed there??

  • What takes the cake here was seeing a video taken this morning of a school bus with children going through flood waters.  What in the world is this school bus driver thinking and why arent schools closed there??

  • I am watching live feeds of helicopters flying over devastated areas of NC.  You wouldn't believe the stupid things people are doing.  Also a freight train went barreling over tracks that were weakened by flooding.  It derailed big time, and now its a hazmat situation as they were hauling chemicals.   What the heck were they thinking taking a train through flooded tracks? Are people that daft???

  • Latest report is once the storm hits land it is to move south and weaken.  However that area will still receive heavy rain fall (depending on how long it lingers there...)

  • https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/florence-nears-cat-5-navy-issues-...

    Navy sending its capital ships in Norfolk, out to sea to ride out Cat 5 Florence!

  • 12 nuclear reactors in NC?  I wonder which state has the most reactors.  Good grief!

  • Learn from past disasters boy is that funny, when you find out who creates them in the first place.

    Jim Haas said:

    I've seen some storm rainfall estimates as high as 4-5 FEET of rain, due to the STALLING of the storm, once it makes land fall.  If it dumps even HALF that much, it will be a catastrophic event!  God help us, if any of those nuke plants go down.  Let's hope they learned something from Fukushima, and shut them down early.....

  • I've seen some storm rainfall estimates as high as 4-5 FEET of rain, due to the STALLING of the storm, once it makes land fall.  If it dumps even HALF that much, it will be a catastrophic event!  God help us, if any of those nuke plants go down.  Let's hope they learned something from Fukushima, and shut them down early.....

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