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That’s a giant cloud of [vinyl chloride] and a ton of other bad chemicals. The local police blew it up like a beached whale, now megatoxins are Chernobyling Ohio and there’s a news blackout and the police are beating reporters and camera people and dragging em. This environmental devastation will be visible from space for decades. The water is safe to drink but everything in it is suddenly dead. The next town over, the release instantly killed everyone’s chickens. This stuff is catnip for human cancer. This will cast a massive acid rain shadow and destroy swaths of vegetation, leaving a path of ruin that will appear as if God himself took his thumb and smudged it over Ohio, Pennsylvania, and beyond.
This is America we just shouldn’t be here in general.
I don’t know that there is literature about incidents of this size and I don’t know much about the local conditions there. This one is beyond my hazmat power to guess at. Neighboring towns for sure until the stuff has time to settle into the groundwater