BNSF derailment (03/15/23) in AZ cancels SWC trains

https://abcnews.go.com/US/derailed-...rdous-materials-transported/story?id=97902559

Derailed train in Arizona feared to be carrying hazardous materials actually transported corn syrup

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Oh, I don't know. Corn syrup is hazardous to my waist, I suspect.

Get corn syrup in a river and watch all fish float to the surface. One of those non-regulated hazardous materials. Might be safe in your food (or not) but in the concentrate form a bit sticker of a problem.

Just-Thinking-51 said:

Get corn syrup in a river and watch all fish float to the surface. One of those non-regulated hazardous materials. Might be safe in your food (or not) but in the concentrate form a bit sticker of a problem.

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Well, yes. Almost anything in enough quantity can kill you. There is a joke about in a particular college a group of science majors that put together the statistics on drownings and other damages due to floodings, etc., then using those numbers created a petition demanding outlawing the use of dihydrogen monoxide. They then posted this on several locations in the area of the arts and social sciences classes for signatures, and collected severeal hundred signatures in a couple days. Hint: Dihydrogen monoxide = H2O = water.

George Harris said:

Well, yes. Almost anything in enough quantity can kill you. There is a joke about in a particular college a group of science majors that put together the statistics on drownings and other damages due to floodings, etc., then using those numbers created a petition demanding outlawing the use of dihydrogen monoxide. They then posted this on several locations in the area of the arts and social sciences classes for signatures, and collected severeal hundred signatures in a couple days. Hint: Dihydrogen monoxide = H2O = water.

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https://www.dhmo.org/
I have one of their t-shirts. My daughter was invited to come to this guys house, in our neighborhood, to swim in a big vat of this dangerous substance. And I let her go.

His daughter was a classmate of my daughter.

Folks who aren't familiar with the topography of the desert area near the CA/AZ border, should understand that because its sand, it has almost zero capacity to absorb rainwater. And at many places on the highways you will see a dip in the road with a sign that says "xxxxxx Wash". These are gullies that basically act as dry river beds. But the "river" forms immediately after a solid rain - and the water runs rapidly due to the narrow nature of the wash.. the force can destroy an asphalt road or in this case, soften the ground and damage/cover railroad tracks, since the water carries a lot of sand with it.