[UAH] LET US TAKE A MOMENT FOR THE PEOPLE IN LAC-MEGANTIC TOWN

Friends

 

I kindly request that we take a moment of reflection to the people of the town of Lac-Magentic. This is a typical small Canadian town of just under 6,000 people.  As all towns on the borders between Canada and United States, Lac-Megantic survives on tourism and a railway line that goes through them. On Friday night a train from the states heading to a St John’s refinery, with 72 wagons of crude oil came to a full stop into this little town because the crew had to get a shift change.  So you roll your train to a certain point and then the next crew take over to proceed with the load. After the engineer left the train, for some unknown reason the train decided to roll off the station with all its load of crude oil, by the time it arrived to down town, it was at a speed of about 80 KMPH, it derailed and it started fire. Because train tanks hold so much pressure when under fire, they started to blow up and as they were blowing up, crude was escaping but going with its fire. Naturally everything that is liquid on the ground ends up into the sewage system, so you had a catastrophe of burning crude oil with fire travelling in the sewage system in middle of a night. As pressure built inside the sewage systems, pipes started to blow  out of the ground with crude that is burning, and taking everything they find with them. There were people in bars, in night clubs in social gathering, and all found themselves into an inferno for the sewage system was getting out of the ground no matter what.

 

Now here comes the interesting part. When the  train was parked about 8 Km out of the city, it started a fire in one of its engines, fire fighters were called to extinguish it, but in the process of extinguishing it, it is alleged that they switched off the engine that was running. In so doing they forgot that the engine was actually left on so that the power breaks function. The moment they switched off that engine, there was no power break and the train had to move. As by 20 minutes ago, 40 people are still missing, 13 confirmed dead, but if your person is missing to this point, it is only fair to accept that he/she was incinerated and there will be no body. As we all are trying and so hard to rebuild this town, it does not have a firm soil, so you cannot build an infrastructure on it, you need to start by building the ground to be firm to hold a building. A whole whack of people have been evacuated from Saturday night to today when they go back no one knows, but to use The Prime minister’s words, who has been there, it is a war zone. Fire fighter are not stopping the fires but to keep the un exploded wagons from getting too hot to explode. This crude oil has travelled miles and miles out of the town.

 

As you think about the suffering of these people, I want you to think on the calamities on your house if you are in these developed cities. How many trains pass your home? What do they carry? Hey have you ever thought about the gas pipes in the ground? How many inches is the monster gas pipe under your house? And did you know that if it cracks it can send your house air born when you are in a middle of sleep?

 

Let us take a moment for the people in Lac-Megan tic for everyone knows everybody.

 

EM
On the 49th

 

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