First It Was a Hurricane. Then Pig Poop. Now It’s Coal Ash
First It Was a Hurricane. Then Pig Poop. Now It’s Coal Ash
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 24, 20187m 41s
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Show Notes
After the storm comes the flood. Hurricane Florence poured 8 trillion gallons of rain onto North Carolina, and now the landscape between the Cape Fear River and the barrier islands of the Carolinas is a waterworld. Because ecological disasters happen in irony loops, that means long-recognized hazards have now become add-on catastrophes. First the floodwaters found thousands of literal cesspools containing the waste of 6 million hogs, and on Friday the waters reached a pool of toxic coal ash.
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