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[–] • 4 pts

Cars driving by it and through it.

As soon as I saw the color of that smoke I'd have been in the median going the opposite direction.

Who knows, maybe the lemurs were trying to get to a pop up vaxx booster clinic and couldn't wait.

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This is the correct answer. If you see a warehouse fire, never drive through smoke. Do whatever you have to do to avoid it. I can tell you first hand, there is scary shit in many unassuming buildings that you don’t know about.

[–] • 1 pt

I did drive over the gw bridge the day after 9/11 and the smoke was still rolling up the Hudson and all over the bridge.

[–] • 4 pts

Top notch comment on article: “ Terrible news! Any further information on the Nordstream incident?”
Even if it may be a distraction, these chemical accidents are hitting a little too close to home for my tastes.

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Oh look, more cohencidences of chemicals getting dumped all over America

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https://pic8.co/sh/mkMDCC.png

jewing the jew

I love it. Sadly he low balled it. Should have added at least on more 0.

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nitric acid?

[–] • 5 pts

Someone mentioned it may have been a truck carrying the stench of Katie Hobbs out of Arizona.

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I think you are right.

Nitric Acid Fumes (th.bing.com)

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This is not the happening for Tucson bros. It just fucks up traffic.

So I used to work at a plant that used nitric acid in quantity. It was delivered by tanker trucks. One day a truck arrived which was leaking - they had loaded nitric acid into the wrong kind of trailer and it was dissolving the steel. The nice part was that we had an offload location that was in containment. We moved the truck there, whereupon the acid continued to eat the trailer and leak at an increasing pace. It was a hell of a mess, and there was a lot of fume for a while, but it was not a major health concern like Ohiogeddon.

Nitric acid is nasty stuff - don't get me wrong - and driving through the smoke would be a terrible idea, but I think this will not be a big deal for the area judging by the picture. They'll clean up what they can out of the median, neutralize what they can, and that will basically be the end of it. The acid is water soluble - so if the remainder seeps in to groundwater over time it will diffuse over time too (not sure how much time, but an aquifer could dilute a lot of acid to less than harmful concentration). It's not like pouring it down your well. I think this will not be a big deal in the end.

The aftermath of the leak in the plant was fucked up concrete and underground utilities all underneath a big rig that was devoured by acid. We saved the chemical company's bacon by containing the shipment - they helped fix the problems it caused, and nobody got injured. All good.