There was a thermal inversion coming in. A thermal inversion is when there's warm air on the ground, but then a layer of cold air comes over top of it and acts like a blanket. And so because there's that blanket over top, things that are close to the ground don't escape. So people were exposed to this ever increasing concentration of toxic chemicals from an industrial plant. Unfortunately, a lot of people were sickened and people died and it got a lot of national attention.

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