Leaving St. Louis

"AN EVENT" is going to transpire soon in suburban St. Louis. Nobody knows for sure the exact or even approximate nature and date of this event, but that an event of some sort is going to happen seems certain. Not one but two toxic waste dump sites are located right next to each other, both largely underground. One of them contains radioactive waste from war wer two, the Manhattan Project, which was never cleaned up, and the other, of a conventional sort, is on fire, and has been for about four years. As is that weren't wnough, the fire in the conventional dump is heading straight towards, you guessed it, the nuclear site, and thus everyone agrees that an "event" of some sort is inevitable, maybe within a few years if not months or weeks or days or hours. In the immediate neighborhood, which is residential, there is a high rate of cancer, and the smoke from the fire keeps kids indoors for play; you have to wear a gas mask to go outside. Why anyone is still living in this neighborhood, much less the St. Louis metropolitan area, is anyone's guess. Things haveing to do with denial, job security, ana property values, presumably. Tell you what. I don't know aobut you, but I think I'd either be gone by now, or on my way out. Jobs and houses are replaceable; not so with cancer afflicted kids. Strategies are now being discussed, which include such crazy ideas a building a wall to block off the advancing fire from the nuclear waste, and so forth. the bad news is, none of them make any sense. the good news is; at least we know about this nightmare, and can start to do something about it, like getting the heck out of there. Aint it great to be alive during the industrial age!