"The chemical shower I got today is burning my skin, my makeup actually burns right now, everything is on fire; it gets real hard to pay for ur poison & watching them lie saying [the water] is fine" -@FlintGate on 9-YEAR-ANNIVERSARY of #FlintWaterCrisis.
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@FlintGate You can watch the FULL hour-and-a-half interview w/ Flint activist Melissa Mays and our @JordanChariton—who is now in Flint for his 19th reporting trip since 2016—below.
@FlintGate@JordanChariton READ/SHARE @JordanChariton's deep dive on where things stand on the 9-year-anniversary of the water crisis—or DAY 3,287—the water is STILL CONTAMINATED, there's STILL a COVERUP, and it's highly unlikely anyone goes to prison.
"This is the first time in my life I think I've ever been afraid," - #EastPalestine's Eric Cozza. His urine tested for high levels of Vinyl Chloride. He's had nosebleeds and more since the train derailment.
As we broke, CDC is recommending doctors NOT TO TEST residents for VC
Kristin also had rashes on her leg/foot after showering. Her 8-year-old son has also been sick--she took him to ER last week for nosebleeds. Both of them were diagnosed w/ chemical inhalation. **HER WATER IS CONNECTED TO EP CITY WATER— which the governor and EPA declared safe.
“It feels like the worst flu imaginable,” Battaglia, 37, told us about her symptoms following the derailment. She also has an ear infection, sore throat, cough, chest pain, burning eyes, constant running nose, headaches and migraines, fatigue, anxiety, insomnia, and bone pain.
On Saturday, Neo-Nazis, White Lives Matter, and anti "groomer" demonstrators protested at an Ohio Drag Queen Story Hour—physically attacking and harassing LGBTQ+ attendees and their children.
@JonFarinaPhoto "Are you f**ing serious! As we're escorted he attacks us," -attendee of drag queen story hour screams at police as they fail to arrest anti "groomer" protester who attacked them. Police then arrested man wearing rainbow-colored jacket after HE WAS ATTACKED and defended himself...
@JonFarinaPhoto "Because of you all of us catch all kinds of hell!" -anti "groomer" protester says as he confronts Neo Nazis who came to protest Drag Queen Story Hour. "You're the weakest among us!" he shouted at the Neo Nazis.
The EPA and Norfolk Southern think they can "just come in and just mow these people in #EastPalesitneOH down and then baffle them with bullshit" -Bob Bowcock, water treatment expert and @ErinBrockovich's partner
@ErinBrockovich On a temporary dam Norfolk Southern erected filled with contaminated water overflowing VERY close to the groundwater, Bowcock said "they are basically flooding it out and blowing it out...boy if you ever want a coverup this is how you do it."
EPA is "making a really bad situation and actually making it worse; the community has 5 groundwater wells...this water that's in this creek can end up in groundwater wells in literally days...there will be a chronic contamination for decades," water treatment expert Bob Bowcock
Bowcock, who has 30 years of water treatment experience and partners w/ @ErinBrockovich, told @louisd217 the EPA's response to the #EastPalestineOH derailment & explosion has been "haphazard" and "uncontrolled"
BREAKING: A temporary dam erected by Norfolk Southern in #EastPalestineOH —with contaminated water—is overflowing AGAIN where Leslie Run and Sulphur Run creeks meet. There are 5 water wells in close proximity drawing from groundwater. This is at edge of East Palestine City Park.
The flooding is going into The Original Roadhouse restaurant parking lot where a lot of locals eat and drink. Pics taken by local resident Neko Figley, who posted on Facebook that he was told by contractors to leave because it was “super dangerous to be here right now.”
At last night's EPA/Norfolk Southern town hall w/ frustrated & desperate #EastPalestineOH residents, a Norfolk Southern lobbyist told residents and told them the company would not be paying to relocate residents despite widespread illnesses and homes that reek of chemicals...