"I live 5 miles from where the accident happened, and when I looked out of my kitchen window to the south I thought I was looking at snow,and/or rain clouds when I first saw the smoke"!:( The accident sure has messed up traffic flow around the Louisville, Kentucky area, but at least there were very few hurt, and so far no casualties! Just wondered if any of you had heard about the news. They had everyone in Bullitt County which is where I live, and where the accident happened to keep our doors, and windows shut, turn off our furnaces, and bring all pets inside. They evacuated a few homes in the area, but our housing addition was not one of them!:)
2007-01-16 13:51:55 · 4 answers · asked by beankittyky(=^v^=) 2 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
No. I live in Seattle. The big news here is our freezing weather.
Why the evacuations and all that from the train? Fumes? How scary. I hope there's no more injuries!
2007-01-16 13:57:57 · answer #1 · answered by thezaylady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Louisville and have traveled that very stretch of road to go to my in-laws in Shepherdsville, 2 miles from the site of the accident. My hubby hit a deer at that exact spot. It is really scary, but at least no one was seriously injured. They keep asking if work had been done on the track, due to all the tracking pieces on the side of the tracks, but that stuff has been there for about 4 yrs now. I wish they could make sense of what happened, but they may never really know the real cause, trains derail all the time and the cause is a mystery.
The chemical that were on the train were highly toxic, my husband makes paint and they use those exact chemicals everyday. Bullitt County is lucky this happened in an low populated area. There would have been major problems if this had happened in down town Shepherdsville.
I am glad that your family was ok.
2007-01-17 12:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by sunflowerlizard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That was one crazy train wreck, the second in Kentucky in less than 24 hours (the first was in Estill County east of Richmond.) What caught my attention was not the smoke (but only because I never saw it.) I was driving down I-264 listening to the radio, heard that I-65 was closed from the Gene Snyder Freeway to KY 313, and was perplexed, b/c that's like more than 20 miles of highway shut down. I knew then this train wreck was a big deal! I knew people would be injured, but at least there were no fatalities.
2007-01-18 10:15:15 · answer #3 · answered by BlanketyBlank 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live in Wisconsin. We saw pictures of this on CNN this morning. My husband is a firefighter, so anything with flames catches his eye.It looked aweful.
2007-01-16 22:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by kim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋