The paper mill exploded because the workers who maintained the digester had been laid off. An investigation by OSHA found that many of the employees that cared for critical systems had lost their jobs and many people were tasked with replacing them had no idea what they were doing or how to maintain the equipment. Cost cutting was the root cause of this accident.
@Richard Beckenbaugh Thank you. Same thing is happening on US railroads now. The government reduced the US RR workforce from 200K to 80K. Now we are having all these derailments. And the guy in his vehicle staring down the road at a half mile wide tornado? What did he think he MIGHT need? But then changed his mind? A paper towel! Human's need paper! Toilet paper, paper towels, cardboard. paper on wallboard, receipts, mail, bags, bills records catalouges. I am sitting here surrounded by piles of paper! Thanks again!
Because they laid half everyone off one of the last few we have in the state now they want to choke us on lobster fishing and blueberries so we will have 0 industry left in the next five years
@@nickiemcnichols5397 hasn't his fault they laid off half the crew and shut down all our other mills cut pay..they knew they were in for something like this and didn't care
Tornadoes scare the hell out of me. I was doing a mowing job once and watched one forming. Didn't enjoy that because I had nothing other than my truck to get under. Thankfully it was heading normal to me and no one got hurt.
I'm sitting here waiting to hear a death toll on the paper mill and never have I been so relieved. Just seeing the explosion alone, it's a miracle no one died.
Trucker's wife here. That truck looks like it might have been the loading stands that caught. That man needs a hug! OK now I need a hug. My dad used to work in the boiler room of a paper mill. Watching that explode made my heart ache a bit. Of course, my father was VERY good at his job, so nothing ever exploded there.
Here in Dodge City, Kansas we are under a tornado watch tonight as we speak and i just happen to pull this video up. Dodge has one of the highest amount of tornados a year. i personally love living in Kansas. Been here all my life and the best part about it is the tornados. i’ve been in everything from an EF0-EF5 and while the EF5 was scary, i’d honestly do it all again. Some of them are just absolutely beautiful..
I know one thing you're not supposed to do. Hide under an overpass as they supposedly act like wind tunnels with stronger tornados such as the one in this video. If in a car and in this situation....I've heard get out and lay in a ditch, but I always doubted that myself. I *think* that is mostly for dodging debris.
Nah dude. If it comes down to me being a sitting duck and getting hit by a tornado, or making a break for it and having a chance of not getting hit... yeah I'm making a break for it.
The video of the Tornado is absolutely amazing! It was truly crazy that it basically just sat there in the same spot until it just disappears... It's awesome inspiring and frightening at the same time...
That was a first for me, seeing it disappear like that. I've seen many videos or tornadoes. But not disappearing. That was cool. I've always wanted to see one in person, though.
They are a powerful sight and feeling and that one was just plain power and beauty, never wish that on anyone, but when you actually experience that, you're forever changed. Nature knows, were but ants lol
I'm from Iceland 🇮🇸 -We *sometimes* have monumental storms during the winter. (I have actually seen people picked up...and blown away. But I have never seen such an amazing (video) of a tornado 🌪 such as this. Truly incredible footage !!
Also, ...I have sometimes heard Americans describe the sound like a "freight train". -This (video) really brings that description home ! (Here it is more ongoing throughout the whole duration of the storm). -Anyhoo, cheers from 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇸
The hill the train tracks sit on was to steep so the center of the truck got sat on the tracks. The solution is for the road to have a shallower gradient. I'm surprised that there isn't a building code for a maximum gradient on roads crossing railroad tracks.
Right! It's easy to imagine HOW a long, low & loaded vehicle gets stuck on a hump in the road. Isn't there a number the hauler can call to warn trains of a stuck vehicle? This happens multiple times a day just in America! Not a week, not a year, A DAY 10 to 15 times a day a train hits a vehicle at a railroad crossing. Please check this? I can't quite believe it. Must cost a lot to fix or they would have fixed this hump problem? Railroad tracks are usually above grade relative to the surrounding roads?
The first video with the train and truck, I grew up in the area and lived near the place that this happened. On the far side of the of the road it’s a pretty significant drop/incline to/from the track, as you can see by the angle of the truck. If I remember correctly, I believe trucks are not allowed through that way. It’s been close to a decade since I been there though. I remember that you cannot really see a vehicle on the other side if you are in smaller vehicles.
Glad to hear the perspective of a local. Sitting here at my desk (to be fair), it looks to me like the truck beached itself and had absolutely no business being there. Don't truckers plan their routes? And if they have to divert, don't they check that the diversion is suitable for their vehicle?
@@Orion40000 GPS. There is commercial and standard GPS. Commercial is a bit more expensive, and standard is good 98% of the time. This is probably one of the 2% of the times that it's not. Standard GPS will plot a course that is quickest and shortest but will not tell a driver they're winding up on a veritable goat trail. We have a road in our county that gets shit like this all the time. No train tracks but curves so tight you can read your own tag. Standard GPS ALWAYS directs truckers up that road.
I am in the next town right up the road from the papermill. I didn't hear anything and when I noticed that the police had shut down crash rd I was in shock! Jay lost a lot of jobs recently but it was not immediately.
I was born and raised in Jay Maine when I saw the thumbnail I knew it was the video of our mill blowing up.. The guy narrating has it a little wrong after the explosion it did stay open for a little bit ( a lot of people did lose their jobs because that section did close but the other ones didn't) it just closed down this year completely the whole town was covered in the stuff you see landing all over the truck. If you drive by today the only people still there is security. Before the explosion it was just bought by new owners and some say it was a insurance scam
Avalanche: "Backed up to get a better view of the thing" No, they backed up because it was the smart thing to do, and the driver two ahead got out and signaled both vehicles behind him to do so.
1st story, semi got high centered on the rails. That white strip of metal under the trailer is a relatively new safety feature to help prevent cars going under the trailers axles / tries. When the rail crossing was built, those didn't exist and trucks had a LOT more ground clearance. Like, 2 1/2 feet more... It's not something that would have ever been an issue before but it's cropping up all over the place now. Minor edit: Some trailers also have a lowered section already for taller cargo. Most of those I've seen are side-load rather than rear-load. This one's not sporting a set of doors in the middle, so I am still chalking it up to that low section just being the barrier skins.
Being born and spending much of my early life in was was the CCCP, those floating bridges are shockingly common and many of them are rather old. I’ve seen heavy trucks that same effect on undamaged bridges. It can be a bit unnerving when your car starts floating lol
16:22 Never mind which driver is at fault. Who was responsible for securing that cargo? These bricks were just loosely stacked up with a sheet on top for appearances sake!
Tell us you've never driven cargo without telling us. Those pallets of bricks were clearly banded properly as you can see them coming off the truck in bunches. NO load of bricks would withstand that contortion.
The truck stuck on the railroad tracks was high sided with the landing gear on the trailer stuck on the other side of the tracks. It happens on a lot of railroad tracks on side or back roads where the track has been built up over time and the road dips down on each or one side. In my town we have one that they have several signs coming up to because of several trucks getting stuck over the years there. My partner of 20yrs who is a 3rd generation truck driver was dumbfounded by hearing that two trucks got stuck there in the same week because the first time he saw the crossing he knew he would never get a truck over it.
the tracks have a layer which is called ballast which keeps the tracks in place and reduces vibrations etc . the tracks often predate the roads that cross them . they aren’t “built up over time” the ballast has always been there. if a semi can’t cross oh well
Not uncommon for large trucks to 'bottom out' on train tracks as they cross them. Kinda like a turtle balanced on a rock and their feet don't touch the ground.
#1 video of the train hitting semi is crazy! But to say that the driver was selfishly backing up to get a better view of the crash was just unnecessary. Lolz where else was the driver supposed to go or do in that situation? Drive up to the semi or something? At least he checked up on the poor guy.
And on the bright side, no one was hurt and the truck was no longer stuck. Too bad about the cargo though... and the locomotive probably got its paint scratched.
all too often train crews die cause of stupid semi drivers . the dash cam backed up when they heard the train horn i’m guessing , at that point they were blaring it as a signal they were gonna hit the truck .
as a former resident of Tornado Alley that was the most perfect glorious shot tornado ive seen outside of a movie. Thats the kind of tonado you hope you can see in person but dont get caught in it.
Dude, tornadoes and earthquakes absolutely terrify me!! I have never lived anywhere that those sort of events happen and I’m certain I would freakout worse than a cat trapped in a rainstorm, if I ever found myself in one…😱
i live in central AZ we had a microburst with 100+mph winds and earthquakes over 4.0 , a few funnel clouds ( one was a part of a tornado outbreak here which is rare) that formed a tornado 8 miles north on top of the mesa . one of the earthquakes was formed about .5 kms from my house
my brain can’t even grasp the concept of earthquakes lol like i have no point of reference to imagine what one would be like. but my area gets a lot of tornados and they scare the fuck out of me. i’ve never actually been in one but i’ve been close to them and just thinking about tornado sirens makes me sick my stomach, let alone hearing it. tornado season is torture bc my area tests the sirens weekly but i always forget that (i have lived here for almost 23 years)
as a long haul driver, it sucks but, chances are cargo shifted because it wasn't properly secured and that is the driver's job to make sure cargo weight is evenly dispersed.
I see your point. From the creators point of view, however, i get he said “thankfully” because his literal occupation is making complications of footage like this. He’s probably also very thankful that everybody’s safe! ✌🏼❤️
@@h_sth_r6942 - The creator can think, "wow, I'm glad I got my hands on this shot, this was such a lucky escape!", and still make the point, "luckily the driver was safe and none were injured". They're not exclusive. However, making the point, "luckily they filmed this", while not making the point, "fortunately they were all fine", says something about (mental) priority.
@@boringpolitician I agree & i would’ve done that as well! ❤️ But I guess his mind was preoccupied with creating content. I admire your empathy and feel the same way.
Aquele tornado no campo... BEM MORTAL........ Minha mente está explodindo. Eu nunca estive tão perdido sem mais nada para dizer *That tornado in the field... BEAUTIFULLY DEADLY....... My mind is blown. I've never been so lost for anything else to say. 😶❤
@@lisashiplett7659 beautiful the spectacle of nature that you guys have. here in Brazil there are no tornadoes but they are very beautifulI. would love to see one
@@motoqueirocometa3096 The closest I came to a tornado was 25 yrs ago in the state of Montana in northwestern USA. I was 35 and my son was 10 as we traveled 12,000 miles (20,000 km) in 45 days across the USA. We tent camped or slept in my sleeper van along all the scenic routes. Montana is known as "Big Sky Country". We watched a storm forming 400 mi/650 km away. It reached us after 5 hours. LOTS of lightning./thunder/wind and sheets of rain that you could see falling from the dark clouds. It only rained on us for an hour. Then we watched it for another 4 - 5 hours as night fell. We watched the lightning until the storm was 600mi/950km away. Just as you are amazed by our weather, land features, and more... I'm sure Brazil would be just as stunningly beautiful to me. Maybe one day, if the fates allow, I'll experience something in Brazil that cannot be found here in my country.. Safe journey to you through life.❤😁
5:04 shows how much you know. Thats a pontoon bridge, the trucker drove onto it, realized to late that he was to heave and that the bridge was sinking, and then realized that the only way to prevent the bridge from completely sinking was to keep going. If those cars hadnt stopped in the middle of the bridge for apparently no reason then he would have stayed behind them.
@@dandaman2810 seems you are stupid if you can't even find the reasons of these explosions and such. All on the internet, and unlike you say, they ARE on the news. Idk what you're even trying to say. Take the tinfoil off your walls and seek medical assistance asap
The police were near the tornado at least in part to let the nearby town know where it was heading. Our police in NW Ohio double as storm spotters when there is a tornado, radio-ing in the location and path.
I suspected Stephen King commented on #7 and I was right :D "A paper mill blew up in Jay, Maine today, not too far down the road from us. A TOILET paper mill. So keep a stack of magazines and advertising circulars handy." 10:15 PM · Apr 15, 2020
Maybe railroad crossings need to start impelmenting a button that could be pushed kind of like an emergency call box that would alert trains a mile or so down that there's an obstruction on the tracks and start preventing stuff like this.
clip number 8, the impatient truck driver, there was no reason for the car at the front to stop where he did..... had I been driving the truck I would have done the same, also I would have got that driver at the front and kicked him in the nuts for stopping where he did (video shows he moved off the bridge soon after), IMO the driver at the front was the inconsiderate one that caused the problem, if he carried on driving this clip wouldn't exist
Furthermore, I do not think the truck could stop on the bridge otherwise the bridge would have sunk even more...the truck had to keep moving so it would not fully submerge the bridge. Otherwise more vehicles (and the truck) would have become fully submerged in the water.
@@bilbobaggins7527 I've never seen such a floating bridge before, but it looked like something a heavy as a truck shouldn't be crossing it in the first place!
@@catonkybord7950 it was likely put in due to flooding. Different mils use that type for river crossings if done right they can support tanks and such.
it’s a floating bridge and at least the one i drives 2 ton station wagon over are designed to sink a little bit into the water the issue was the truck and the cars on the bridge the cars needed to not stop
#1 How does every semi-truck get 'stuck' on the tracks? They hi-center the trailer on it and can't get enough traction to free it. Otherwise they wouldn't be stuck. It was probably more dumb luck than anything, the driver followed a route that came across this crossing and he didn't have anywhere to turn around at. Most crossings are fairly flush unless you find some secondary backroad in a rural area, then you find these crossings where the road is lower than the rails on both sides and it wasn't cost effective to level it out.
They might not make this problem a priority because..... It happens on average 10-15 times per DAY per year, (so google says). There are 212,000 plus level crossings in the US. (so google says) If fixing every crossing in whatever way cost a minimum $100 thousand dollars? fixing every crossing would cost: $21,200,000,000 I think that's 21 Billion 200 Million dollars. But they COULD focus on the most problematic level crossings and work through the list? The government could EDUCATE drivers of ALL vehicles to call a number. Anyway, It's a big problem and would cost big money to solve in a PERMANENT way. I think they should post the emergency number in HUGE TYPE on a sticker on the inside of every semi truck? That might be a quick easy solution. Just a sticker with a number to call on every dashboard of every BIG and/or LONG and/or HEAVY TRUCK?
stop copy and pasting bullshit . there are three types of crossings level, at grade and over . most are at grade on roads that aren’t traveled on very often . no semi should drive over this type because the ballast creates the “hump” the railroads in the US own where their tracks are and it’s not on them to fox roads built after their tracks were laid down .
The ton of bricks falling, it looked to me the silver car moved over trying not to get hit by the black suv forcing his way over, not “changing lanes”. Just my observation. Thankful they survived & kudos to the truck driver for his efforts in an impossible situation not of his making.
I disagree. The driver of the truck carrying the bricks is to blame for the accident. He was going too fast .No matter what happens in front of you,you must be in a position to stop.If you can't you are going too fast.
"Пантонный",такие мосты в России наводят военные,в экстренном случае .Но это не значит,что можно ездить в две полосы.Скорее всего ,это уже не первая неделя экстренной ситуации,нет регулировщика.(на видео это видно).Как минимум могли быть разбирательства после этого.
4:20 I wouldn't say that the truck driver was being a jerk if he had stopped on that bridge there's a good chance he would have gone through so while he had momentum he went for it and I also think the other drivers knew that
While I can understand you’re trying to understand why they were doing that, it does seem pretty obvious that the bridge wasn’t safe for their truck to go across it would obviously be too heavy and should not have gone on it in the first place. You could be right but they did potentially endanger others and could have ruined other vehicles doing that. If you’re driving a truck like that I’d hope they’d have enough training and common sense to not do that
