Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

HockeyMusings t1_j8eniql wrote

Reply to comment by ghostofhogan in Ohio toxic air in DMV? by ghostofhogan

The controlled release burned until Wednesday. The fire is out.

15

LarryKingBabyHole t1_j8epj6w wrote

To be fair... fire leads to smoke and particle dissemination which outlasts the fire itself.

If a chemical factory is dumping waste in a river, does the waste just disappear when the dumping stops?

1

IndependentYam3227 t1_j8epzm1 wrote

Apparently the toxic cloud is going to disappear over Ohio, and reappear just outside the Beltway.

14

HockeyMusings t1_j8epzh9 wrote

The fire ended a week ago. It has come and gone.

The amount of chemical exposure isn’t even a blip relative to the background deluge we willingly and/or unknowingly expose ourselves on a daily basis.

Even at that, our risk decreases exponentially with our distance from the site.

8