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That's a giant cloud of [vinyl chloride] and a ton of other bad chemicals. The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there's a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em. This environmental devastation will be visible from space for decades. The water is safe to drink but everything in it is suddenly dead. The next town over, the release instantly killed everyone's chickens. This stuff is catnip for human cancer. This will cast a massive acid rain shadow and destroy swaths of vegetation, leaving a path of ruin that will appear as if God himself took his thumb and smudged it over Ohio, Pennsylvania, and beyond.

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      hexbear
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      1 year ago

      Not everyone 11 News feels that way. William Hugar was happy to head home to see his two cats he left behind.

      “A lot of people are...they get scared too easy. I don’t think there’s going to be any problems,” Hugar said.

      Hugar, i've got some bad news :sadness:

      • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
        hexbear
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        1 year ago

        All these questions about the water being poisoned have already been answered by my “the water is not poisoned” t-shirt

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexbear
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        1 year ago

        “A lot of people are…they get scared too easy. I don’t think there’s going to be any problems,” Hugar said.

        Heard this shit about covid before and about how we all must abandon caution and LIVE :corona-and-lime: A :corona: LITTLE :covid-cool:

    • Deadend [he/him]
      hexbear
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      1 year ago

      It’s a poorer area with an average house price under 100,000. Of course it’s “okay” to go back because no one in charge cares.