Speaking of Train Derailments. My family and I were living in Mt. Shasta City in 1991 and it was a hot summer night so the windows were open to stay cool because most people in Mt. Shasta then didn't have air conditioning but only wood stoves for heating during the winter. So, we hear this crash, crash crash bang in the distance and wondered what awful thing had happened which it turned out spilled 19,000 gallons of Metam Sodium into the Sacramento River between Dunsmuir and Mt. Shasta which basically killed every fish, every insect, and anything alive in that river between Dunsmuir and Lake Shasta (Shasta Dam which I believe is about a 40 mile or more stretch of the Sacramento River that day. Many people got sick from the fumes in the air then too. Luckily, we were far enough away from all this and upwind of all of this so no one in my family got sick or went to the hospital from being exposed to the extreme chain reaction of what happened to the water and air from about Dunsmuir South on the Sacramento River. Many people had serious long lasting health problems from this spill of Metam Sodium.
However, because new water kept flowing and cleansing the river all the dead fish and insects wound up in Shasta Dam and new fish and insects and birds came from upstream and repopulated the river between Dunsmuir and Shasta Dam over the years.
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