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Charleston, West Virginia massive chemical spill people vomiting sick, water supplies low http://www.paulbegleyprophecy.com also http://www.fema.gov
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  • The Elk River ends at Charlston and dumps into the Kanawha river witch goes south east and turns into creeks looks like 100 miles. It also goes west and dumps into the Ohio river not sure how far it is.

  • No I don't I am not that familiar with WV. 

  • 9 counties, wow that is a lot!  

  • Keith actually your post was one of the better ones. A distraction it might be.

  • The chemical sounds pretty toxic to me, the truth should come out soon.  

  • Shopper gets the last few bottles of water at the Kroger in South Charleston, WV following the chemical spill on the Elk River.

    Shopper gets the last few bottles of water at the Kroger in South Charleston, WV following the chemical spill on the Elk River.

    CREDIT: AP Photo/Tyler Evert

    Residents of nine counties in West Virginia have been told not to use or drink their water after a chemical used by the coal industry spilled into the Elk River on Thursday. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin declared a state of emergency as more than 100,000 customers, or 300,000 people, are without safe drinking water.

    “Don’t make baby formula,” said West Virginia American Water Company president Jeff McIntyre. “Don’t brush your teeth. Don’t shower. Toilet flushing only.”

    The chemical, 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol (MCHM), is used to wash coal of impurities and spilled from a tank at Freedom Industries into the river. While the amount of MCHM that spilled wasn’t immediately known, West Virginia American Water has been conducting water quality testing every hour. According to Laura Jordan, a spokesperson with the water company, they believe the chemical is leaking at ground level and “there is a possibility this leak has been going on for sometime before it was discovered Thursday,” WSAZ reported.

    Local officials described MCHM as smelling like licorice and looking like “cooking oil floating on top of the water.” The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources said symptoms of MCHM exposure include “severe burning in throat, severe eye irritation, non-stop vomiting, trouble breathing or severe skin irritation such as skin blistering.”

    Though the spill occurred Thursday morning, West Virginia American Water didn’t provide its customers with a warning until evening and, as Al Jazeera reported, several were angered by the lack of information, particularly regarding what should be done if they had already used or ingested the water.

    Early Friday, Tomblin announced that the White House approved a federal emergency declaration to help with the urgent water situation. Soon after the governor’s declaration on Thursday, residents flooded local stores for bottled water and disposable dishes. “It was chaos, that’s what it was,” cashier Danny Cardwell told CBS News.

    West Virginia American Water has emphasized that once contaminated by MCHM, the water cannot be treated. As a result, schools in at least five of the counties will be closed Friday and hospitals, restaurants, nursing homes and other establishments in the area are also banned from using their water as the entire system is flushed out and testing continues. As of early Friday, Freedom Industries, “a full service producer of specialty chemicals for the mining, steel, and cement industries,” had yet to comment on the spill.

  • All the reports I have read are from Lame stream media so we don't really know what is really going on down there. A chemical tank leaked foaming chemical into the river and no one seems to know how toxic it is. You can only live three day's without water and many of these people have already gone two days. We have seen so many times that when FEMA takes charge things get bad. I think the video is over hyped but who knows yet what is going on.

       I find it ironic that on Thursday when the spill happened, the house passed a bill that if a corporation creates a disaster the taxpayers have to pay for the clean up, we are surely controlled by corporations, it still has to pass the senate and the emperor.   

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