East Palestine Community Shares Thanksgiving Meal Despite Ongoing Train Derailment Displacement

Families and individuals still being impacted by the 📍East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment received a reprieve from their troubles Tuesday — they shared a 🦃Thanksgiving meal. 

According to CBS News, the event brought displaced residents together and offered them a free meal for the holiday.

Jami Wallace of East Liverpool attended the event and stated the importance of “just having that togetherness.”

She then described the hardship she and her family have been through.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone,” she said, adding she feels isolated. “I’m all by myself, that I have been abandoned by town, by my government.” 

Wallace and her 4-year-old daughter have been living in hotels since the train derailment in February. 

The train derailment occurred on Feb. 3 and led to controversy over the federal government’s lack of preparedness, per RSBN.

Now, over nine months since the disaster, the former residents of that area are still experiencing hardship.

Single mother Zsuzsa Gyenes told