Life imitates art: Ohio train derailment

[Lolo]

This is so crazy and scary at the same time. I was watching the movie White Noise a couple of weeks ago, didn’t finish though because I thought it was boring. The movie opens with a train explosion, some sort of toxic stuff gets blown into the air and spreads via the heavy smoke. 
 

When I heard about the explosion in Ohio I immediately thought ‘haven’t I just seen the exact same thing in a movie??’ 
And now I learned that production partly took place in the same spot, where the actual disaster happened now. This is honestly kind of mindblowing and I feel so sorry for the people living there. 

After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

[karbatal]

1 hour ago, Lolo said:

This is so crazy and scary at the same time. I was watching the movie White Noise a couple of weeks ago, didn’t finish though because I thought it was boring. The movie opens with a train explosion, some sort of toxic stuff gets blown into the air and spreads via the heavy smoke. 
 

When I heard about the explosion in Ohio I immediately thought ‘haven’t I just seen the exact same thing in a movie??’ 
And now I learned that production partly took place in the same spot, where the actual disaster happened now. This is honestly kind of mindblowing and I feel so sorry for the people living there. 

After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

Wow it’s really weird!!!  And food for conspiracies. 

[Jazzy Jan]

On 2/12/2023 at 9:39 PM, Lolo said:

This is so crazy and scary at the same time. I was watching the movie White Noise a couple of weeks ago, didn’t finish though because I thought it was boring. The movie opens with a train explosion, some sort of toxic stuff gets blown into the air and spreads via the heavy smoke. 
 

When I heard about the explosion in Ohio I immediately thought ‘haven’t I just seen the exact same thing in a movie??’ 
And now I learned that production partly took place in the same spot, where the actual disaster happened now. This is honestly kind of mindblowing and I feel so sorry for the people living there. 

After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

Terrifying.  Fascinating that it happened in the same spot where they filmed the movie of the novel.  As you said Lolo,  it is life imitating art.  

[karbatal]

Well it seems there’s a true environmental disaster after this. The authorities burned the chemicals and the smoke is incredibly damaging for health 

[jonski43]

On 2/12/2023 at 10:39 AM, Lolo said:

This is so crazy and scary at the same time. I was watching the movie White Noise a couple of weeks ago, didn’t finish though because I thought it was boring. The movie opens with a train explosion, some sort of toxic stuff gets blown into the air and spreads via the heavy smoke. 
 

When I heard about the explosion in Ohio I immediately thought ‘haven’t I just seen the exact same thing in a movie??’ 
And now I learned that production partly took place in the same spot, where the actual disaster happened now. This is honestly kind of mindblowing and I feel so sorry for the people living there. 

After a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html

I watched the whole thing. One of the worst films I've ever seen. They kind of forget about the whole disaster halfway through.

I doubt the residents will be so lucky.

 

[horn]

17 hours ago, karbatal said:

Well it seems there’s a true environmental disaster after this. The authorities burned the chemicals and the smoke is incredibly damaging for health 

Yikes!

[horn]

I'm surprised the accident took place a week ago but was not being widely reported by media till now.

This reminds me of the movie "The Mist"  

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/train-cars-carrying-toxic-chemicals-derail-in-ohio-180981593/

[Lolo]

On 2/14/2023 at 6:00 PM, Jazzy Jan said:

Terrifying.  Fascinating that it happened in the same spot where they filmed the movie of the novel.  As you said Lolo,  it is life imitating art.  

I feel so bad for the people, obviously because of the actual disaster but also if it was me I’d definitely think this is karma and I have somewhat manifested this tragedy. You know what I mean? I’m sure some of the people there think like that, that they are somehow responsible, when they’re really not. 
 

And yes, from what I gathered the officials covered this up as long as they could. Chernobyl comes to mind. 

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I think the whole town is nuked.

 

 

[horn]

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/17/health/ohio-derailment-rashes-health-impacts/index.html

CNN — 

Some residents of East Palestine, Ohio, say they have developed rashes, sore throats, nausea and headaches after returning to their homes this week, and they’re worried these new symptoms are related to chemicals released after a train derailment two weeks ago.

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If it's SO safe to live in Ohio and drink the local water according to US government, why couldn't he answer the question?

Can't imagine how many children will be affected by this... 

[karbatal]

It’s terrible in every way