Almost 3 months after a fiery Norfolk Southern train derailment sent residents fleeing and thrust East Palestine into a national debate over rail safety, residents say they are still living in limbo.
The lawsuit is seeking relief and monetary penalties for each day it violated clean water laws in East Palestine, Ohio.Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand — his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since early February.
Walker, 48, also works at a small hotel where many workers are staying, so is constantly reminded of the accident. She remembers the scorched rail tanker at her property line and a backyard flooded with water from the burn site. “Sometimes I just break down,” she says. “I have nothing here,” says Drummond, sitting on an orange plastic chair outside the Davis Motel in North Lima, Ohio. “So it’s trying to find something to keep yourself busy, to keep from going crazy.”Norfolk Southern Railroad is paying for lodging for some families but won’t say how many still are out of their homes while the railroad excavates tens of thousands of tons of contaminated soil, a process the Environmental Protection Agency expects to take another 2-3 months.
“Nothing jumped off page for us yet,” Durno says, adding that testing would continue just to be sure.
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