![]() ![]() Some Philadelphians discovered that the jugs of water they had bought because of the chemical spill were being recalled because they might be tainted by chemicals released by the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.Īccidents happen, of course. The cherry on this dystopian cake? Not even the bottles of water that people were snapping up were guaranteed to be safe. Maybe this is the sort of corporate statement you come up with when you work with toxic chemicals all day. “It’s your typical acrylic paint you have in your house that’s what, really, this material is, in a water base.” This is not particularly reassuring, seeing as not many of us go around drinking paint. “It’s like the material you find in paint,” he said. Meanwhile, a Trinseo executive told local media that the chemicals his firm had spilled into the drinking-water supply were no big deal. City officials have said that “people who ingest water will not suffer any near-term symptoms”, which begs the question about long-term issues. I say “presumably” because details of what these chemicals might do to your innards is still scarce. Presumably, tap-drinkers would turn into toxin-laced pumpkins. The gist of it was: “Whoops! Looks like you didn’t need to buy all that bottled water after all, because the tap water is fine until 11.59pm on Monday.” What might happen then? Good question. ![]() There was still plenty of water available and nobody was buying ridiculous amounts, so there was a general feeling of: “Ha ha, we’re all going through dystopia together!”Īfter every single bottle of water in Philadelphia had been bought and panic had escalated, the city put out an update. It was crammed and the atmosphere was very jolly. I grabbed a bag and ran to Rite Aid, the nearest purveyor of bottled water. ![]() It told us that, starting an hour later, at 2pm, we should use bottled water for drinking and cooking, out of an “abundance of caution”. At that moment, everyone in Philadelphia, about 1.5 million people, got an emergency phone alert. ![]() “I hope this crisis only lasts half an hour.” “That’s going to last you half an hour,” I said. A human prune, I live in a permanently dehydrated state, but my wife chugs water like her life depends on it. ![]()
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