Live near a railroad and/or chemical plant/storage??

[Longwalkhome]

More than likely it's what you don't know that will kill you. All through life friends and family have died from cancer and medical problems, most didn't know they were killing themselves.

I have lived in a bad area most of my life, worked a very dangerous occupation yet I am still here. It helps in staying alive if you know what's dangerous.

 

[solv3nt]

I heard from people, so not sure on the validity, that biking up interstate avenue during rush hour was equivalent to smoking a few cigarettes with the air pollution.

 

[deadeye]

More than likely it's what you don't know that will kill you. All through life friends and family have died from cancer and medical problems, most didn't know they were killing themselves.

I have lived in a bad area most of my life, worked a very dangerous occupation yet I am still here. It helps in staying alive if you know what's dangerous.

So what your saying is I should have told the boss to stick it when he had me drive right past the radioactive signs into the ponds out at Wahchang???? I did tell him if a certain appendage starting glowing green I was gonna sue him though.

 

[Longwalkhome]

I heard from people, so not sure on the validity, that biking up interstate avenue during rush hour was equivalent to smoking a few cigarettes with the air pollution.

When I first got into construction decades ago they were using asbestos in a number of different construction fields. Water lines, roofing, flooring and a lot of asbestos is still in our houses. Same with lead paint, it was used for a long time.

Guy I started working with putting asbestos water line in the ditch laught at me when I said I wanted a dust mask when cutting the 8 inch pipe. Said "that's what the hairs in your nose is for". In his later years all that asbestos had him talking through a thing in his throat.

Worked with a foreman in roadwork that every day he would soak his boot soles in diesel so the asphalt didn't stick. He died from cancer in his feet, a horrible agonizing death.

As a young man I worked for Bud at Buds gas for less. Bud died from cancer and his wife said it was really rough.

Read the Material Safely Data sheet on gas and diesel and it says it causes cancer.

Folks really have little knowledge on the things killing them and most will turn their back and not even care.

Yet 165,000,000 got a jab that they have no idea what's in it.

I live near train tracks and don't lose any sleep.

 

[Longwalkhome]

So what your saying is I should have told the boss to stick it when he had me drive right past the radioactive signs into the ponds out at Wahchang???? I did tell him if a certain appendage starting glowing green I was gonna sue him though.

I helped remove those ponds, dug them up and shipped them out. I had good training and tools to keep track of the dosage.

Friend who was an xray tech died young from cancer.

 

[deadeye]

I helped remove those ponds, dug them up and shipped them out. I had good training and tools to keep track of the dosage.

Friend who was an xray tech died young from cancer.

Work for ol Bob?

 

[Longwalkhome]

Work for ol Bob?

Ron.

 

[deadeye]

Ron.

Had to wash the trucks and the trackhoes when they were doing that back in the late 80's. Ol Bob Barker made some good money.

 

[Longwalkhome]

Had to wash the trucks and the trackhoes when they were doing that back in the late 80's. Ol Bob Barker made some good money.

I ran one of the hoes digging and the loader loading trucks out at night. Ron was instrumental in getting us haz mat 5 training in case the plant had spills.

That place was dangerous. At the main gate years ago they wanted to tie in a water line. When we exposed the pipes they picked the wrong one, it was an 8 inch natural gas line and they cut into it. Only reason it didn't blow up is there wasn't enough oxygen in the hole to ignite it.

 

[deadeye]

I ran one of the hoes digging and the loader loading trucks out at night. Ron was instrumental in getting us haz mat 5 training in case the plant had spills.

That place was dangerous. At the main gate years ago they wanted to tie in a water line. When we exposed the pipes they picked the wrong one, it was an 8 inch natural gas line and they cut into it. Only reason it didn't blow up is there wasn't enough oxygen in the hole to ignite it.

Yep dangerous, the ponds werent the only place I worked out there. Saw some pretty good fireworks a couple times when the metals caught fire. Crawled in, under and around some pretty nasty stuff and hit some of it with hot water and steam, fun times.

 

[Longwalkhome]

Yep dangerous, the ponds werent the only place I worked out there. Saw some pretty good fireworks a couple times when the metals caught fire. Crawled in, under and around some pretty nasty stuff and hit some of it with hot water and steam, fun times.

They killed two guys out by the ponds that were washing mag I think. One was sitting on forklift while the other was up high dumping the mag. Fire fried them both. Another died in Amonia transfer from a railroad car.

My brother worked there for decades, he died last year from destroyed lungs.

Worked a lot of dangerous places, seen men die and learned how to stay alive. Then went as a contractor to Iraq...

 

[po18guy]

Gordon Graham, risk management specialist, teaches that most of the time, most things go exactly as planned. That reality lulls us into a relaxed state - which can be fatal. Ever watch the USCSB videos on YouTube? Or Fascinating Horror? Safety improvements always come at a cost in blood.

 

[Stomper]

Folks in general have no idea how much dangerous stuff they live around. On the freeway every day you can read the placards on the trucks and know how dangerous the load is. Same with the trains, they have placards telling responders what in the cars.

What you don't see is where those dangerous materials end up.

My first guesses are….. drinking water, hygiene products, or pet food.

 

[The Heretic]

Gordon Graham, risk management specialist, teaches that most of the time, most things go exactly as planned. That reality lulls us into a relaxed state - which can be fatal. Ever watch the USCSB videos on YouTube? Or Fascinating Horror? Safety improvements always come at a cost in blood.

Watching "Modern Marvels" right now - episodes of "Engineering Disasters"

 

[po18guy]

Watching "Modern Marvels" right now - episodes of "Engineering Disasters"

Oh! Does that include the epic train wreck - the current presidential administration?

 

[DunRanull]

Years ago I was trained by Hazmat team 5 to respond to dangerous material spills. To drive home how dangerous the world is they told of an incident involving a fire. After the fire was put out one of the firemen saw something half melted he thought would make a good ashtray.

He took it home a put it next to the bed but left a burning cigarette in the new tray. Seems the heat released enough chemicals and gas to kill him.

Point being there are things in our every day living that are dangerous under the right conditions.

Sounds like the old welder's tale of the guy who was arc-welding with a bic lighter in his breast pocket- of course a spark burned thru his clothes and into the lighter, which exploded and blew him to smithereens..

 

[spookshack]

Years ago I was trained by Hazmat team 5 to respond to dangerous material spills. To drive home how dangerous the world is they told of an incident involving a fire. After the fire was put out one of the firemen saw something half melted he thought would make a good ashtray.

He took it home a put it next to the bed but left a burning cigarette in the new tray. Seems the heat released enough chemicals and gas to kill him.

Point being there are things in our every day living that are dangerous under the right conditions.

Was there a Hazmat team 6? If there was, your street cred would have been 1000% higher!

 

[nehalemguy]

Well, it probably prevents covid.

Permanently.

-E-

 

[CountryGent]

Hopefully no one is trying to sell their house over there.

I can see the ad now — "Unique fixer'upper opportunity."

 

[NobullSKS]

I can see the ad now — "Unique fixer'upper opportunity."

Wonder if any real estate deals or business deals fell through.