Posted on 01/08/2007 7:51:22 AM PST by call meVeronica
AUSTIN, Texas - Police shut down 10 blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown Austin early Monday after dozens of birds were found dead. Experts were testing for any sort of environmental contaminant or gas or chlorine leaks that might have killed off the animals, police spokeswoman Toni Chovanetz said. There were no reports of any humans harmed, but a 10-block stretch of the main north-south route through downtown, several side streets and all buildings in the area were blocked off and expected to remain off-limits until about noon, Chovanetz said. The bird carcasses were found overnight along Congress Avenue between Sixth and Eighth streets. The street closure Monday morning stretched from the front of the state Capitol to a section of the Colorado River known as Town Lake. There was no immediate word on whether the Capitol would be affected Monday, the day before the legislative session was to begin.
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Presidents Bush's fault
Another gas leak?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764068/posts
Hope these are not related.
ping
obviously NY City birds have more tolerance for bad odor vs the Austin birds
Was Helen Thomas in town?
If this turns out to be a malicious situation where either an illegal alien or terrorist who walked across the Mexican border since Jan. 2001...you're damn right it's his fault.
When the canary dies.......
Maybe some little boy got a RED RIDER RANGE MODEL BB GUN from Santa.
You're right. It's not unusual for building maintenance folks to put poison on a roof to reduce the pigeon population. It may not be legal, but I think that it is fairly common.
I'm in Dallas and going there Feb 3rd. I hope it is nothing serious.
I did some research on this, and SEVERAL articles (none posted here) state the types of birds as being pigeons, grackles, and sparrows.
Downtown Austin shut down after bird deaths
Posted by call meVeronica
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 7:51:22 AM PST · 16 replies · 681+ views
msnbc.msn.com ^ | 1/8/2007 | AP
A strange discovery this morning in downtown Austin. (TX)
Posted by Arrowhead1952
On News/Activism 01/08/2007 4:39:56 AM PST · 145 replies · 4,037+ views
KLBJ News ^ | 1/8/2007 | n/a
here's an update:
http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5904817
Well, the weather there is 53F, clear skies, low humidity (35%) and light and variable winds, mostly calm; an upper air chart might likely show a near surface inversion which would would tend to hold any escaping gasses down close to the ground.
There is no sounding on Unisys for Austin but the rest of Texas has a strong inversion up to about 2,000 meters above the surface.
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