On February 3, 2023 news of a massive train derailment of a 150 car freight liner carrying toxic chemicals occurred in East Palestine, Ohio, causing panic throughout the community as people started feeling sick, and the toxic chemicals contaminated the Ohio River.
We have dedicated a number of articles to food inflation, shortages, and encouraged readers to prepare, stock up as our food supply chain feels as if it is under attack. Processing an food manufacturing plants destroyed, war causing shortages of wheat and cooking oils, plant viruses causing issues with lettuce productions, droughts causing the sell-off of cattle before calving season, meaning an upcoming meat shortages is expected.
The issues with the food supply continue to increase, but what we haven't focused on quite enough is the issues of water, and how quickly the need can become paramount, and also how quickly the stores run out when panicked Americans are told to not trust their tap water, and to drink bottled water.
On Sunday, March 26, there was a chemical spill in Bristol Township, Bucks County which released contaminants into the Delaware River after a pipe rupture at a nearby chemical plant, Trinseo PLC.
"It hit the roof of a building, went down a gutter, from the gutter it went to a storm drain, from the storm drains it found another outfall basin, from there it started to leak into the river," said Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Engineering at Trinseo, Tim Thomas.
Overall, an estimated 8,100 gallons of latex finishing material, a water-soluble acrylic polymer solution, was released into the creek.
The overnight and continuous rain only complicated the issue, and material continued to spread.
The creek feeds into the Delaware River.
Over the course of the followingdays days, we see once again what happens when people are not prepared and what happens when they learn, all at once, that they need to be prepared.
Exactly the same thing that happens over and over against when a huge weather events happens, and people decide at the last minute to head to the stores.
All at once.
PANIC HITS AND STORES RUN OUT OF WATER
The notice above went out, including by emergency alert over cell phones, and what happened next shows us how fast panic shopping can empty the shelves, leaving no more for subsequent customers.
As you will hear in the news clip below, stores in Philadelphia immediately started running out of bottled water. Walmart, Giant, and others.
By Sunday afternoon, the Brown's Shoprite in Bensalem, Pa., was nearly out of bottled water, as did numerous other grocery stores, once of which shown in the image below from Yahoo News.
Zero Hedge has multiple Twitter video clips of long lines, some of which just 10 minutes after the advisory came out.
Some stores have said when they get new water supplies, they will be limiting sales to three cases per customer to prevent the panic runs that emptied their shelves originally.
By Sunday night the state claimed the water was safe to drink at least until Monday, and that "there is no need to buy water at this time," but people continued to stock up on bottled water.
1,400 TONS OF METHANOL IN OHIO RIVER DUE TO BARGE DISASTER
As if the people dependent on the Ohio River, and the soil the toxic chemicals from the trail derailment soaked into wasn't enough, we now see that a barge carrying 1,400 tons of the toxic substance Methanol "crashed on the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday and is partially submerged."
The Louisville Metropolitan Emergency Services (LMES) said that shortly after 2 a.m. ET a vessel towing 11 barges made contact with a "stationary structure" at the entrance to the Portland Canal, to the west of Louisville, near the McAlpine Dam.
It comes just weeks after a toxic plume traveled down the major U.S. waterway from the site of a train derailment near East Palestine, on the border between Ohio and Pennsylvania, prompting measures to prevent contamination of the drinking water that is supplied to around 5 million people from the river.
Once again we see the instant claims that ""There is currently no impact to Louisville Water's water intake or water quality."
Yeah.....NO.
After the derailment, the people in Ohio were told that they temporarily would need to drink bottled water if their wells were not very deep and that the people in East Palestine were safe, yet people were getting sicker and sicker by the day, so I am not quite sure how much trust to put into assertions that all is well.
Better safe than sorry.
The map above was developed by Coalition To Prevent Chemical Disasters. Red icons indicate accidents from 1 January to 31 December 2022. Purple icons indicate accidents since 1 January 2023.
A TERRIFYING STATISTIC...
It is a sad thing to say, but when it comes to important issues, sometimes we have to go to foreign media to find out what is happening right here in the U.S.
The UK's The Guardian, in their U.S. edition, conducted "an analysis of data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and by non-profit groups that track chemical accidents in the US shows that accidental releases – be they through train derailments, truck crashes, pipeline ruptures or industrial plant leaks and spills – are happening consistently across the country.
By one estimate these incidents are occurring, on average, every two days."
In the first seven weeks of 2023 alone, there were more than 30 incidents recorded by the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, roughly one every day and a half. Last year the coalition recorded 188, up from 177 in 2021. The group has tallied more than 470 incidents since it started counting in April 2020.
The incidents logged by the coalition range widely in severity but each involves the accidental release of chemicals deemed to pose potential threats to human and environmental health.
Food is extremely important in a SHTF scenario, but one can go without food for far longer than they can without water.
No one should wait for a disaster to happen before preparing because as this latest example in Philly shows us, by then it could be too late because the store shelves will be empty.
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