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ghostofhogan OP t1_j8enffy wrote

Reply to comment by HockeyMusings in Ohio toxic air in DMV? by ghostofhogan

Yeah, and the controlled release will burn much longer and will likely do far more damage than any countless number of Chinese balloons.

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HockeyMusings t1_j8eniql wrote

The controlled release burned until Wednesday. The fire is out.

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LarryKingBabyHole t1_j8epj6w wrote

To be fair... fire leads to smoke and particle dissemination which outlasts the fire itself.

If a chemical factory is dumping waste in a river, does the waste just disappear when the dumping stops?

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IndependentYam3227 t1_j8epzm1 wrote

Apparently the toxic cloud is going to disappear over Ohio, and reappear just outside the Beltway.

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HockeyMusings t1_j8epzh9 wrote

The fire ended a week ago. It has come and gone.

The amount of chemical exposure isn’t even a blip relative to the background deluge we willingly and/or unknowingly expose ourselves on a daily basis.

Even at that, our risk decreases exponentially with our distance from the site.

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