Friends
I kindly request that we take a moment of reflection to the people of the
town of Lac-Magentic. This is a typical small Canadian town of just under
6,000 people. As all towns on the borders between Canada and United States,
Lac-Megantic survives on tourism and a railway line that goes through them.
On Friday night a train from the states heading to a St Johns refinery,
with 72 wagons of crude oil came to a full stop into this little town
because the crew had to get a shift change. So you roll your train to a
certain point and then the next crew take over to proceed with the load.
After the engineer left the train, for some unknown reason the train decided
to roll off the station with all its load of crude oil, by the time it
arrived to down town, it was at a speed of about 80 KMPH, it derailed and it
started fire. Because train tanks hold so much pressure when under fire,
they started to blow up and as they were blowing up, crude was escaping but
going with its fire. Naturally everything that is liquid on the ground ends
up into the sewage system, so you had a catastrophe of burning crude oil
with fire travelling in the sewage system in middle of a night. As pressure
built inside the sewage systems, pipes started to blow out of the ground
with crude that is burning, and taking everything they find with them. There
were people in bars, in night clubs in social gathering, and all found
themselves into an inferno for the sewage system was getting out of the
ground no matter what.
Now here comes the interesting part. When the train was parked about 8 Km
out of the city, it started a fire in one of its engines, fire fighters were
called to extinguish it, but in the process of extinguishing it, it is
alleged that they switched off the engine that was running. In so doing they
forgot that the engine was actually left on so that the power breaks
function. The moment they switched off that engine, there was no power break
and the train had to move. As by 20 minutes ago, 40 people are still
missing, 13 confirmed dead, but if your person is missing to this point, it
is only fair to accept that he/she was incinerated and there will be no
body. As we all are trying and so hard to rebuild this town, it does not
have a firm soil, so you cannot build an infrastructure on it, you need to
start by building the ground to be firm to hold a building. A whole whack of
people have been evacuated from Saturday night to today when they go back no
one knows, but to use The Prime ministers words, who has been there, it is
a war zone. Fire fighter are not stopping the fires but to keep the un
exploded wagons from getting too hot to explode. This crude oil has
travelled miles and miles out of the town.
As you think about the suffering of these people, I want you to think on the
calamities on your house if you are in these developed cities. How many
trains pass your home? What do they carry? Hey have you ever thought about
the gas pipes in the ground? How many inches is the monster gas pipe under
your house? And did you know that if it cracks it can send your house air
born when you are in a middle of sleep?
Let us take a moment for the people in Lac-Megan tic for everyone knows
everybody.
EM
On the 49th
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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