Train Carrying Chemicals Derails in New Jersey

[Bruenor]

Train Carrying Chemicals Derails in New Jersey

For those of you, like myself, who live near train tracks, do you have a plan to deal with situations like this? Do you have a planned evacuation path away from the train tracks? What if you live in an area where the only road goes over the tracks? What is your back-up plan?

 

[Survivalcookie]

You must know your options...Google maps can help find side roads.

 

[fangz]

You must know your options...Google maps can help find side roads.

My Jeep can make side roads where I am, miles of fields with a little tree line here and there.

 

[inrunner]

its like the movie "the crazys"

 

[printcraft]

Train Carrying Chemicals Derails in New Jersey

Chemical spill in Jersey?

Did anyone notice?

 

[iamaclone45]

Chemical spill in Jersey?

Did anyone notice?

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Informatics is helpful. Knowing what types of chemicals are being hauled can help mitigate your responses to it. Some are easily filtered out, some dissipate in air, some are severely dangerous, some will corrode and attack even the best respirator. Just depends on what it is. Material safety data sheets are very informative and great guidance on how to respond to what. Know prevailing wind patterns, and whether you perhaps live downstream of major sources or storage of hazmat.

Personally, chemicals don't worry me nearly as much as living threats: the biological elements. Particularly when conditions exist that will eventually degrade or render inert most chemicals which can be vaporized or aerosolized.

Bioweapons, however, have fewer such limitations, mostly wind drift and geographic limits.

 

[Survivalcookie]

My Jeep can make side roads where I am, miles of fields with a little tree line here and there.

Some of us have families that are to large to fit in a jeep...

 

[Survivalcookie]

Informatics is helpful. Knowing what types of chemicals are being hauled can help mitigate your responses to it. Some are easily filtered out, some dissipate in air, some are severely dangerous, some will corrode and attack even the best respirator. Just depends on what it is. Material safety data sheets are very informative and great guidance on how to respond to what. Know prevailing wind patterns, and whether you perhaps live downstream of major sources or storage of hazmat.

Personally, chemicals don't worry me nearly as much as living threats: the biological elements. Particularly when conditions exist that will eventually degrade or render inert most chemicals which can be vaporized or aerosolized.

Bioweapons, however, have fewer such limitations, mostly wind drift and geographic limits.

Homeland Security in Indiana says train derailment with chemical spills are one of our greatest threats.

 

[digitalmonster]

This is how zombies are born.

I don't like how people get upset when I keep a safe distance from a rolling train. I hate being close to them because they derail big.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Homeland Security in Indiana says train derailment with chemical spills are one of our greatest threats.

Not to denigrate your beloved DHS, but I respectfully disagree.

One can mitigate response to chemical spills with prior knowledge.

Nuclear/radiological present their own problems - shockwave, thermal wall-o'-fire, and of course, radioactive fallout, but if you survive the first two problems, you can actively and passively manage the fallout.

Very difficult to avoid biologicals. Chemicals are tactical weapons only, not strategic. Biological agents serve both strategic and tactical functions.