Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 22, 2009
April 23rd, 2009
Today’s Gaseous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Between October 26 and 31, 1948, a severe temperature inversion caused poisonous gases such as sulfuric acid and nitrogen dioxide to become trapped in the stagnant air of the Donora mill town in the Monongahela River Valley in Pennsylvania. Released from various steel works and a zinc plant, whose sulfuric emissions had wiped out most vegetation within a half-mile, 20 people were killed and thousands stricken with respiratory and heart problems.
Culled from: Huffington Post
I thought this was a good fact for Earth Day considering this was one of the events that helped launch the environmental movement which culminated in the Clean Air Act in 1970.
And I thought Baton Rouge was bad!!!
Bhopal on the Bayou!