The Keystone pipeline would have prevented this Warren Buffett train wreck.
Via WV Metro News
Multiple tanker rail cars carrying crude oil derailed Monday afternoon in Fayette County, triggering explosions and a huge fire as several cars rolled through a residential subdivision and into the Kanawha River.
At least one house was destroyed, but police have found no evidence of fatalities.
The CSX train jumped the tracks at about 1:20 p.m. Eyewitness Randy Fitzwater of Boomer said he thought a plane had crashed.
“I heard this loud noise. It sounded like a jet airplane flew over my house and then I heard an explosion,” Fitzwater told Metronews. “I looked across the river and I could see this big ball of flame.” (Listen to Fitzwater’s full interview above.)
Another eyewitness, who declined to give her name, told Metronews “the flames were going at least 300 feet in the air … black smoke everywhere.” She reported hearing several explosions “that shook my whole house. I could feel the heat through my door.”
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s office said the tanker cars were carrying Bakken crude from North Dakota to Yorktown, Va. Spokesman Chris Stadleman said it’s still not clear what caused the derailment or how many cars tumbled into the river.
HT Blueburb