Sunday, October 22, 2006
Flooding, Train Crash, Parachute Death,
This could be considered a "minor" flood in Quebec. It affects a small town southeast of Quebec. According to the news article on the CBC, the floods were caused by heavy overnight downpours. The number of evacuated homes sits at 200.
On Friday, a train pulling ethanol tanker cars derailed in Pennsylvania. According to CNN, 23 cars jumped the tracks. The derailment caused the track to break into two pieces. As for the cause, the article suggests that ethanol leaked from about 9 the tankers and sparked the fire. The article says officials are going to look into witness accounts and check maintenance logs. The train did not get up to the speed limit. A possibility for the derailment might be the broken tracks, but that seems unlikely. If it was known that the tankers were already leaking ethanol, its only a matter of time before a spark from the rails will ignite the substance. The article doesn't seem to mention anything about an explosoin occuring, although igniting the ethanol will have caused some form of an explosion, sending some cars off the rails.
Yesterday was Bridge day in West Vriginia, a BASE jumper died after jumping from a bridge when his parachute failed to open in time. BASE jumping is an acronym for people that jump from buildings, antennae, spans, and earth. Although the jumper died, officials continued to let people jump from the bridge as weather did not play a role in the jumper's death. CNN says its the first death on Bridge Day since 1987, and there have only been 100 BASE fatalities around the world since 1981. For this man, its probably just bad luck.
On Friday, a train pulling ethanol tanker cars derailed in Pennsylvania. According to CNN, 23 cars jumped the tracks. The derailment caused the track to break into two pieces. As for the cause, the article suggests that ethanol leaked from about 9 the tankers and sparked the fire. The article says officials are going to look into witness accounts and check maintenance logs. The train did not get up to the speed limit. A possibility for the derailment might be the broken tracks, but that seems unlikely. If it was known that the tankers were already leaking ethanol, its only a matter of time before a spark from the rails will ignite the substance. The article doesn't seem to mention anything about an explosoin occuring, although igniting the ethanol will have caused some form of an explosion, sending some cars off the rails.
Yesterday was Bridge day in West Vriginia, a BASE jumper died after jumping from a bridge when his parachute failed to open in time. BASE jumping is an acronym for people that jump from buildings, antennae, spans, and earth. Although the jumper died, officials continued to let people jump from the bridge as weather did not play a role in the jumper's death. CNN says its the first death on Bridge Day since 1987, and there have only been 100 BASE fatalities around the world since 1981. For this man, its probably just bad luck.
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