In an effort to become more connected with things happening in the world today, I have made it my goal to start researching current events and reflecting on them in this blog. However, to start out I'm going to focus on something that actually happened quite a while ago. My goal is to focus on events that could affect me in an way, so I made the exception and decided it was ok, even though it was from closer to the beginning of this year.
The event I researched is the chemical spill which occurred in West Virginia in January of this year. Though this occurred quite a while ago, I still think it's important to talk about because of the chances that it could happen to me. Though West Virginia is in a place highly vulnerable to chemical spills, so it's unlikely this could happen to me, it is still important to be prepared. Many people living in West Virginia during the chemical spill weren't ready for it, and there for suffered more than others. I think it is very important to be prepared for emergencies, at any point in time.
