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t1_j8v46k2 wrote

The date looks like from the 8th of February. It seems to have already passed

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t1_j8v65k4 wrote

Guess we're* all dead now from the toxicity levels

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t1_j8wr1dv wrote

Me shitting and puking my guts out yesterday really was a sign of the end times...

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t1_j8wcigz wrote

This is what was going on in central Maine on February 10th. That's 2 days after what the map shows. I don't think it's a coincidence

https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/02/10/officials-investigate-odor-in-the-air-in-augusta/

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t1_j8vknit wrote

I teach a chemical radiological biological and nuclear safety course

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t1_j90bu03 wrote

For most people, that tends to boil down to "don't go in it".

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t1_j90c68r wrote

Don’t go into it? Not sure you know how this is going to work but you won’t have a choice but to live in it

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t1_j8w90zd wrote

I think it's still hard to say if we breathed in a lot of this or not. It's floating higher up as it gets closer to us, moving fast and diluting.

It's not good at all but I don't think we should panick compared to what we are breathing in on a daily basis

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t1_j8wc578 wrote

Solution to pollution is dilution. —Watershed mgmt fac in the ‘80s

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t1_j8wcw08 wrote

Yeah that's ass. I'd love to breath actual clean air but that won't happen. At least this doesn't pose an immediate health risk any more than the asbestos in the air from brake pads

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t1_j8y4uvi wrote

I'm confident we are breathing it in.

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t1_j8y8ee5 wrote

It already passed us for one. And secondly I never said we weren't breathing it in.

I suggested that the amount we actually inhale is unknown and isn't going to be the same concentration as the site of the contamination. Meaning, I don't think we should worry just uet because we aren't breathing in much more chemicals than a normal day

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t1_j8y9jv4 wrote

Its still smoldering. Just because the fire is out doesnt mean it's not still outputting chemicals. We already breathe in too much. Any more is too much.

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t1_j94an48 wrote

Air quality in Ohio passes all checks. I can guarantee that by the time it arrived in Maine, even more diluted, it still was safe in those quantities.

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t1_j959xw4 wrote

Passing a ppm check doesn't mean the carcinogen that you're breathing is safe. Have you seen the pictures of vehicles in Maine with the brown rain drops on them shortly after the fire occurred. Breathing or breathed, it's an avoidable situation where we were forced to inhale toxic carcinogens and chemical fumes.

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t1_j8zvvin wrote

Precipitation brings it right back down to earth. Ever hear of acid rain?

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t1_j8whzf4 wrote

Maine historically get its pollution from the Ohio rust-belt area. I can remember in the 80s all the acid rain.

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t1_j8w4u2m wrote

You think this is bad? Check out the nuclear fallout projection maps. Going up to camp during a nuclear war isn’t going to save your @$$.

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t1_j8wixg7 wrote

Fallout projection maps are mostly BS based on silly assumptions that all the bombs go off on the ground.

You will be just fine up at camp until you starve to death.

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t1_j8yayv2 wrote

Same deal with the nuclear winter hypothesis. It probably overestimated how much vaporized wood (from wildfires in forests surrounding cities) would get shot into the atmosphere

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t1_j8yeblz wrote

Although as I understand it a more conservative assumption is that a springtime war could still plausibly result in a sudden cold snap that kills many of the crops in the northern hemisphere, drastically worsening global starvation.

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t1_j8v3xez wrote

I have no idea how to interpret what I'm reading here

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t1_j8vbv4r wrote

08 Feb 23

It’s a visual if that was approaching 9 days ago and is long gone now

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t1_j8w9xpd wrote

Maybe it's just wider now?

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t1_j8weqf7 wrote

That’s not how weather works

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t1_j8wf1ii wrote

I was thinking because the wreck is still producing so much pollution. I'm aware the weather would have otherwise carried the initial stuff away.

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t1_j8xc78p wrote

Is it?

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t1_j8xcbq3 wrote

Is it still producing pollution? Yeah.

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t1_j8xfxq6 wrote

But it's not still burning, so how is it producing air pollution? I know it's in the water and that has an impact on the food chain, etc.

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t1_j8xi7he wrote

Burning or not, it's still venting out into the air.

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t1_j8xo1fj wrote

I don't have a technical degree, but do you mean there are trace chemicals in the tanks or soil that are off gassing?

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t1_j8xohuj wrote

Yes. Like, things don't have to be burning to be polluting. If you've ever pumped gasoline and smelled it in the air, that's "venting into the atmosphere" but not burning.

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t1_j90c89i wrote

That's the fun part of American environmental safety reporting... it usually comes in the form of "surprise! you were poisoned a while ago!!" haha.

So many of these things aren't going to kill you straight out, instead you just get spikes in cancer rates in towns for decades and government / companies insisting "that could be from anything" (if people ever question it).

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t1_j8zcrrn wrote

EPA should be ashamed of themselves. Evacuate the city NOW. You know it’s bad when the wildlife has fled

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t1_j94as90 wrote

Air quality checks are all passing, what's the concern?

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t1_j952j2p wrote

You're replying to a person who's not mentally well or equipped to handle living In the real worth without handlers. A true idiot if you would be so kind to them as to use gentle hands.

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t1_j8w8ufg wrote

I think this was released based on the winds right after the fire began. The winds shifted pretty quickly after. I think the fall out was more South east

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t1_j8xc6a3 wrote

From what I've read and seen (mostly from reddit), the winds shifted to the NW and so Youngstown and area got the brunt of it.

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t1_j90bocg wrote

The government said the "dirty rain" was just dust. Would the government lie? (haha)

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t1_j8v3nk3 wrote

How do I make money off this ? Gas mask sales ? Asking for a friend

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t1_j8w2g06 wrote

Plastic sheeting and duct tape/flex tape? I read that in the event of toxic air you shut off anything in your home with indoor/outdoor air exchange and seal your windows/doors with plastic and tape.

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