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Princessss88 t1_j8skp9k wrote

Are you wearing a tinfoil hat? Like come on.

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No-Airport1235 t1_j8sldwf wrote

Did you test the rainwater for any acidity? I'm from Ohio and curious if anyone in Pennsylvania has done that yet.

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cutiecat565 t1_j8smt6d wrote

Do you have allergies? The plants are blooming early and rain causes pollen bursts

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Castor_and_Pollux123 t1_j8snfgv wrote

Get an array of various types of metal, & leave it out for a few days. Check if any pieces are corroded.

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Shaso_Sacea_Vulhelm t1_j8snzww wrote

Try and see if you can get information from other people in your area if they have similar experiences. It’s not crazy to be worried about the smell of rain, especially since there was that big train derailment in Ohio over the border. It could be a placebo effect, like over thinking, or it could be just some shitty rain too- I would not recommend tasting rain if possible in general.

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BamitzSam101 t1_j8so3ag wrote

I live in Carlisle which is pretty smack in between Ship and Harrisburg. Smells fine and no headaches. Maybe lay off the weed for a bit and see if the paranoia stops.

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Dr_Worm88 t1_j8sp851 wrote

There is nearly no chance products from the Ohio incident made it to you. You are 250 miles away. Even with the most optimal wind it didn’t make it.

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KindKill267 t1_j8splyi wrote

I live in Shippensburg. Everything is normal.

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martymoran t1_j8spxfz wrote

i dont think what OP is saying here is crazy at all. No one even knows wtf kind of chemicals were vented or burnt off.

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ChickenGreaseLips t1_j8sqb5g wrote

Bud. Go look at the radar maps, this rain is coming from West Virginia, nowhere near the train wreck. The northwest corner of PA is plausible, but not your location. You’ll be okay.

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Phraenkinstone t1_j8sqewt wrote

Y'all should really stop making fun of this OP. It's a valid question, how far into PA is that shit gonna go? I've been wondering that myself. I'm near Philly so I'm not personally worried about it hitting here, but west PA has a right to be in edge with this shit.

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Dr_Worm88 t1_j8sr3aa wrote

Replying to martymoran (#1,832,791)

A cloud can. But the contents of the cloud are constantly changing. The “cloud” over Ohio will not just retain the exact properties it had at that moment.

Ten miles. My money is you will find evidence of products ending near the 10 mile marker down wind.

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BlaccAtlassStan OP t1_j8srfns wrote

Y’all are weird, I clearly stated I’m probably just paranoid and y’all seemingly just skipped over that part yet continued to reiterate where I mentioned being paranoid 😂 goofies

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WookieeSteakIsChewie t1_j8srnju wrote

I have free range chickens who have been out in it all day, and unlike that fake story about the chickens dying 10 miles away, they're fine.

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krammiit t1_j8srrqs wrote

Replying to Dr_Worm88 (#1,832,929)

True. I'm more interested in the rain today because it's the first rain since the controlled release and saturate the ground making some of these inactive chemicals "active" again.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_j8srv04 wrote

Replying to martymoran (#1,832,815)

Use some common sense. The chemicals would spread out over a massive area. A plume 150 miles away and 50 miles wide would be diluted in a huge amount of air of 7500 square miles. The number of toxic molecules is going to be on the order of one part per trillion and you are probably exposed to more toxic gases released from plastic items in your house. You should probably be more concerned about dozens of factories releasing toxic chemicals nonstop while the train burned for a couple days over a week ago.

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Unlikely-Hawk416 t1_j8srwev wrote

Ill take a tin foil hat over cancer any day. collected all dog toys from the yard in Chester Co PA, as I couldn't give a fuck if it's 0.01% chance of making it my way, i'M not going out at the hands of a train company LMAO

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Groan_Of_Wind t1_j8ssuj5 wrote

The most sophisticated atmospheric modeling would have any residual from the controlled burn long gone off the continent and out over the ocean many days ago. The powerful front that pushed through late Thursday night into Friday purged air over the state like a 50mph snow plow. Winds aloft were persistently well over 100 mph.

That is not to discredit what you are experiencing. It could either be a coincidental headache and you are thinking about the derailment (most of us still are), or there was a local noxious source from industry that is triggering it. It shall pass, worry not.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j8stvyx wrote

Before rainfall, the nearby farmers spread manure on their fields. Probably what you are smelling. Otherwise, just the cheap hootch you've been drinking.

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IamSauerKraut t1_j8svh5l wrote

Replying to martymoran (#1,832,815)

>i dont think what OP is saying here is crazy at all.

There's none of it over Ship today. Wreck was nearly 2 weeks ago. Any exposure or smell would have been within a day or two of the burn-off. Only places it remains is in soil or waterways near side of derailment.

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PensiveLog t1_j8syf1x wrote

My recollection of Ship was that it often smelled like a combination of natural fertilizer and a sewage plant. Whatever you’re smelling is probably normal.

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Ct-5736-Bladez t1_j8t0btz wrote

I’m slightly south of you and it just smells like rain. Maybe you stepped in something check your shoes

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eviljelloman t1_j8t0mtj wrote

The only thing funnier than the number of Russian bots spreading FUD about the derailement is the number of suckers who are just going along with the conspiracy theory without questioning how absurd it all sounds.

It was an accident. It was bad. People will end up fired or fined.

The rain isn't poison.

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Jskerp t1_j8t0y5v wrote

There's a map of where the pollution plume traveled, it missed us in central pa.

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AntaresBounder t1_j8t2kuy wrote

>Is there acid rain in Ohio?
Acid rain could have formed after the controlled release and burn of chemicals on Feb. 6, Kevin Crist, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the director of the Air Quality Center at Ohio University, said. If it did form and fall, it would have most likely occurred downwind of East Palestine.
"There would maybe be localized problems, but once that plume is gone, it's gone. Unless it's sticking to a residue," Crist said.
Vinyl chloride in the atmosphere breaks down into hydrochloric acid, a component of acid rain. East Palestine residents may want to wipe down surfaces in homes for possible residual material, Crist added.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer (updated as of 1:44 pm)

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meinkreuz89 t1_j8t492v wrote

What kinda weed you smoking bruh? Must be laced

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ChickenGreaseLips t1_j8t7cgg wrote

Replying to UpsideMeh (#1,833,928)

No question that it is traveling through the watersheds, but I think it’s a bit irrational to think that the material has completed the entire water cycle of being spilled, hitting a river, diluting in the body of water, evaporating, joining the preexisting rainy conditions, which would dilute it again, and then falling as rain in south central PA in a density that would be noticeable to the OP.

There’s plenty of reasons to be concerned with the effects of this incident, I just don’t think this is one of them. 👍

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krammiit t1_j8tfzvz wrote

Replying to Phraenkinstone (#1,832,850)

I live ten physical miles from the site. I didn't go outside the week of the controlled release and turned off my furnace which sucked.

It has been weeks. If anything is still hanging around in the air that would be absolutely fascinating especially because we have had 45+ mph winds and fast moving weather systems twice since.

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