Midnight Glow Train To Vegas

Posted by Zeke on July 5, 2008 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Zeke watches TV for 2 Reasons. One, to see if my sports bets are gonna pay off. And two, to get the SNOT scared out of me. The latter has been paying off well lately for me.

Honestly, with Popular Culture and The News having their daily competition to see who can MAKE UP better ways to SCARE US, it takes a pretty good (or bad that is) idea to really curl Zeke into a fetal ball of whimpering pulp these days.

But the History Channel pulled it off last week with their “Glow Train” episode of their “Mega-Disasters” show.

A “Glow Train” is a term (allegedly created by the people against their exisitence) to describe a train hauling Nuclear Waste in sealed supposedly unbreakable “dry casks”. Sounds pretty scary already. The TV show, God Bless their Hearts, plays out a scenario where one of these trains derails, crashes and burns in Downtown Las Vegas. OK, that is VERY scary.

And the ensuing disaster causes massive evacuations and injuries and costs billions of dollars. Zeke can’t tell you the exact projected numbers, ’cause I was hiding in my closet under my extensive raincoat collection during the last half of the show. The sound was a little muffled.

Anyway, the day after the show I worked up enough courage to do some research on how they plan to move the waste to Yucca “110% Safe” Mountain, and right away I came upon a great site that ’splained it all. [NNN] The NEIR Nuclear Notes website explained that the WHOLE THING is made up to scare people (like Zeke) into not wanting to do the Yucca Mt dance.

OK. I see their point. Maybe this is just an attempt by the huge “Anti-Radiation Poisoning” Industry to confuse us. After all, the NEIR Nuclear Blog has nothing to gain by having Waste Filled Trains rolling through RENO, ELKO and LAS VEGAS. It’s not like this bunch of Nuclear Industry Board Members, Engineers and Radioactive Material Handlers have spent their WHOLE FREAKING LIVES on getting the “Glow Trains” up and running. Right? Nothing in it for them AT ALL.

And remember if an engineer says it’s safe: NO WORRIES! Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, The Pinto, ANY Anti-depressant, the Challenger, The Columbia, the Titanic..blah blah blah…

HEY WAIT A MINUTE! Those things ended BADLY, as I recall.

Ya know, almost EVERY damn thing I have bought lately breaks or falls apart. It is almost like they are DESIGNING stuff to fail these days so ya gotta buy “another one”.

HEY! I wonder if the guys at the NEIR Nuke-ya Blog actually work in the Nuclear CLEAN UP INDUSTRY as well? I bet FEMA will pay a pretty penny to scrub down a Radioactive Train Wreck. I bet, they might even, kinda, maybe HOPE a Glow Train goes Casey Jones: it’d sure help the Bottom Line. Maybe that is their Freaking Business Model! And maybe THEIR Blog is the actual “misinformation campaign”?

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

If any one needs me, I’ll be under the raincoats.