#southern ohio

[prairiedeath]

almost heaven.

📸: @prairiedeath

[thunderstrolls]

October 21 2024

[appalachianetiquette]

Saw some absolutely fantastic trees today

[helenewate]

looking through some old film. march 2024.

[tencrowns]

[floodleaf]

jaybird, ohio

[sheeps-eye]

April 3, 1974. Cincinnati, Ohio.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

Prayers for folks in southern Michigan tonight. We were expecting storms and had warning but it fired up much more powerfully than anyone predicted.

(note for those like me who get confused: “mass casualty” does not necessarily mean “mass fatality”, but does indicate significant damage)

[honeyrosepetals]

[prairiedeath]

something’s in the water…

📸: @prairiedeath

[thunderstrolls]

October 21 2024

[appalachianetiquette]

morel time morel time morel time

[doueverwonder]

back to thinking about Gov making the regions intermingle, the Midwest and South was somehow the worst and best of all of them. What started off as Country Folk Shenanigans(TM) and a worrying amount of jello and/or cool whip based salads ended with a stand-off to see who was going to be impolite and leave first. They ended up having to send other states in to break it up.

[my-ancient-home]

Appalachia in its entirety

Map of Appalachian subranges (I consider Appalachia to be anything in the Appalachian Mountains so; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama)

[jessiarts]

Seeing the difference in coverage (news media vs social media) on the Feb 3rd train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, USA on and all the issues caused by the incident, I want to see something;

The incident summed up (and there may be even more I missed):

train carrying 150 cars, twenty of which contained hazardous materials, derailed due a failure of a wheel bearing, due to poor inspection because inspections were cut from 3 minutes per train to 90 secs per train. (Remember the railroad strike? Yeah. Part of what they wanted, in addition to better conditions, was more time to inspect trains and to get faulty parts fixed. They were refused, and now we're here.)

the derailment (of 50 cars) caused a fire which threatened to make a car(s) with the vinyl chloride explode, so a controlled release (burn) of the vinyl chloride (toxic, flammable gas) was done to prevent this

residents within a 1 mile radius were evacuated beforehand

the event resulted in contamination of the air/water and mass deaths of animals like fish and chickens

residents were told it's safe to return home a week after the evacuation, and found their pets dead; water smells wrong; air smells and/or burns their eyes

People miles away are having the same issues with animals dying (schools of dead fish in water, livestock sick/dying) and water contamination

The chemicals are contaminating the Ohio River Basin (which is more than just the Ohio River, and effects/includes KY, WV, TN, IN, OH, and parts of IL, PA, VA, and NC) and could potentially also lead to the whole Mississippi River Watershed being contaminated. (that's like, 40% of the continental United States and starts to touch into Canada.)

That all said,

Please reblog if you vote so we can get a larger sample size!

Many think the Railroad company (and the government, because they sided with the railroad company in ending the strike) are trying to cover this up in the news as much as possible, and that most coverage is coming from social media (specifically TikTok) and I want to see just how true that is.

I'm not not kidding when I say I have people IRL, who do keep up with the news, who never heard about the derailment at all until I told them just a couple days ago. It doesn't look good.

[louis-sj]

Orange and White, but no stripes

Lucasville, Ohio

Google maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZ1LaaNafvajzkQC9

Note the leg irons held by the guards.

From: Hard Time, Prime Video S2 E8 - Worst of the Worst

And: Maximum Security | Hard Time National Geographic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97JvUUBG-00