Kimbrelle Kyereh lives just a few hundred feet from the massive chemical storage tanks in St. Rose, in southeastern Louisiana. Oily fumes sometimes drift into her home, bringing headaches, nausea and insomnia. On one such night, she grabbed her son at 3 a.m. and fled to an all-night IHOP. In 2023, after years of coping with the noxious odors, Kyereh began collecting air samples in her yard…
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Cancer alley is wild.
One time I woke up and the sky was on fire. The whole sky looked like the ceiling in a room with a fireplace with the lights off, from horizon to horizon. Another time there was a chlorine fire for 3 days. A huge pile of tons of chlorine was on fire for 72+ hours, and people went to school and such less than two miles away. I’ve heard an ENT say he can tell when someone grew up in my area, just from the condition of their throat, even later in life well after they have left.