There’s a giant, orange blob threatening Florida and adding to DeSantis’s many unaddressed problems.
I don’t mean Donald Trump this time. I’m talking about the seaweed mass off the coast.
Ambulances can’t reach patients before they die. Fire trucks can’t get through and house fires blaze. Pedestrians trying to cut through trains have been disfigured, dismembered and killed; a Pennsylvania teenager lost her leg hopping between rail cars as she rushed home to get ready for prom.
In Hammond, the hulking trains of Norfolk Southern regularly force parents, kids and caretakers into an exhausting gamble: How much should they risk to get to school?
https://www.propublica.org/article/trains-crossing-blocked-kids-norfolk-southern

When crossings are blocked for hours, kids risk their lives to get to school by crawling through trains that could start at any moment. Ambulances and fire trucks can’t get through. The problem has existed for decades. But it’s getting worse.