Palestine Oh and Wildwoodood train tracks
 

Any concern on possible train derailments close to The Villages? Not that I except it should happen concerned. No one expects it to happen in their backyard.

I do not worry about things that I have no control.

Not worried about it at all. Can't think of any wreck worse than the recent one in Ohio which led to an evacuation of those within one mile - I live over three miles away.

I would be more concerned about truck accidents on the Turnpike and I-75 that seems to be where all the action is around here.

Sinkholes, hurricanes, tornados, lightning strikes, crazy drivers, dog poop and meth heads concern me more.

Large rail yard in Wildwood off 301 near 44. Just yesterday I got caught by a train. No exaggeration, it must have had 125+ cars. Many of them were tankers. This train was so long it had another running locomotive in the middle of the thing.

I was very close to the train as it was passing, and Ohio incident was constantly on my mind.

Those poor folks in that town. No doubt the State and Feds would be handling this matter differently if it happened in an affluent area.

Usually not one to worry about things that "probably" won't happen, but, the Ohio tragedy, made worse by the decisions of the "leaders" to turn the chemicals into deadly gases, etc. DID get me thinking how close we are to the major line in close proximity to Oxford, Churchill golf course, Wildwood, etc. Not at all confident that the "villages", or the local politicians, have any kind of contingency plan. Our plan might be to always keep our auto gas tank topped off, and a bit of cash on hand ?

Concerning the latter part of your post. YES, people (and POLITICIANS, OFFICIALS) definitely DO think no one is capable, or interested enough, to look things up ! Just as ONE small example, look at the number of judges who make horrendous decisions (regardless of what party to belong to, you HAVE to care at least about judges) and yet, year, after year, after YEAR the sheeple go to the poles and do the easiest thing... put an "X" in that box that says "retain" ! On the chemical tragedy, good you live 3 miles away from any tracks, but not sure that gives any of us a guarantee of ground water contamination, etc.

Hopefully we will be told what caused the derailment. Mechanical failure of one of the train cars or something wrong with the tracks. My money is on poorly maintained rail tracks. A prudent person would have an inspection done of the rail line before a train carrying dangerous chemicals was allowed to move. Unfortunately, does a prudent person exist?

But what if a satellite loses orbit and a large chunk falls on your garage and ignites your topped-off fuel tank? You will never be safe against the threat of a "what if."

It was a bad axle. They have video of it sparking before the crash.

Yup. A bad bearing that caught fire...

Last train to clarksville
 

gators, sinkholes, trains were here first and yet we came. The die was cast by us

Yes, about as concerned as I am of being hit by space debris!

The truth is out there
 

still waiting for explanations or lies