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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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UpsideMeh t1_j8t4de5 wrote

That stuff definitely spread out. And it’s in the Ohio river basin which feeds 8 states including W. Virginia.

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ChickenGreaseLips t1_j8t7cgg wrote

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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