Posted on 09/10/2012 2:31:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Authorities on Monday investigated widespread reports of a foul odor detected across the San Fernando Valley.
Shortly after 5:00 a.m., a “rotten egg-type” smell was reported “widely across (and possibly beyond) the north San Fernando Valley and Foothill communities of Los Angeles”, according to Brian Humphrey with the Los Angeles Fire Department.
No illnesses or any specific hazard has been associated with the odor, Humphrey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.
The sulfur-type odor — which Humphrey said “appears to be organic in nature” — had been reported as far west as Simi Valley and as far east as Cathedral City and Perris in Riverside County.
While officials worked to investigate the source of the smell, officials did acknowledge the smell could be affecting a wider swath of Southern California.
Stephen Harrison with the National Weather Service office in San Diego told KNX 1070′s Vytas Safronikas that whatever the source or sources of sulphuric odor, wind currents have been moving in an east to west direction from the Salton Sea into parts of the Greater Los Angeles area.
“It’s always possible to get some kind of odor coming from the Salton Sea up through the Coachella Valley through the Banning Pass and into the Inland Empire,” said Harrison.
Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Monica Carazzo said the odor is affecting schedules at some local schools, including Osceola Street Elementary.
“Some schools are implementing a rainy day schedule, meaning that once kids get their lunch, they go inside of the classroom, recesses are inside, that type of thing,” said Carazzo. “But that’s school by school.”
Residents do not need to call 911 to report the odor unless they are experiencing a medical emergency, Humphrey said
I agree...I’ve been to the Salton Sea when there has been a mass amounts of fish dying...it sure smelled, but to travel up from the Salton Sea seems a little far fetched. The only thing different about the meteorology is that we have been getting outflow boundaries moving up from thunderstorms that have formed in the deserts and mountains. That is the only thing that I can think of getting the odor up so far north and west.
It’s a fair ways, but I’ve gotten smoke from Arizona fires 300 miles away that made me think my yard was on fire.
Yeah, the weather was perfect....back in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. Born there, grew up there. But the building boom of the late ‘70’s - and what seemed like forever after that - turned a beautiful place into wall to wall concrete and rooftops. Left in the mid ‘80’s for Oregon and several years later, Texas. Wish I had moved here sooner!!
Are Bill and Ted up to something Bogus?
Rosie is filming her new show outdoors in Burbank. *-?
frankly it could be the Salton Sea, maybe a new earthquake swarm or maybe a volcano arising or it could be just refired bean farts
opt monsoon season and we get moisture from the southeast so anything is possible
I’m not buying the fish “die-off” explanation. Smells have to get dispersed and up and over the mountains. Strong monsoon storms may help carry a smell, but these winds would disperse it. If anything was imminent, I wouldn’t count on Janet snot-sleeve to tell us. Volcanic activity releases sulfur smells. I’ve smelled, if the wind is right, forest fires 30 miles away or so, but dead fish? Just my humble opinion.
i don’t think it will be an excellent adventure this time lol
They held the Democratic Convention in California??
The whole place slippin' away
The problem with that theory is that the methane released from the ground wouldn’t smell like rotten eggs. Natural methane is odorless, they have to put the “rotten egg” smell into it with an additive, otherwise nobody would notice if they had a gas leak.
Texas is glad to have you here!
I live in Rancho Cucamonga and I and the Mrs. smelled it about 10:15 AM. There was an Easterly wind and the smell lasted until the evening SW wind took over. I’m about 10 miles from the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults.
****OK, kids....open up your favorite map site and find Salton Sea. Now tell me how the HECK do rotting fish odors reach that large of an area???****
the monsoonal moisture being pushed into the area from a storm in Mexico is delivering the pungent odor, (news)
we have been having flash floor and severe thunder storm warnings for for over a week now. To have this long is not common. I heard from a friend who was traveling and said it was worse in Desert Hots than in Ontario.
I heard a rumor of a egg salad festival in Indio
****OK, kids....open up your favorite map site and find Salton Sea. Now tell me how the HECK do rotting fish odors reach that large of an area???****
the monsoonal moisture being pushed into the area from a storm in Mexico is delivering the pungent odor, (news)
we have been having flash floor and severe thunder storm warnings for for over a week now. To have this long is not common. I heard from a friend who was traveling and said it was worse in Desert Hots than in Ontario.
I heard a rumor of a egg salad festival in Indio
It's sulfur dioxide that is making the smell, not methane. Mercaptan is added to methane and natural gas to make that rotten egg smell because it is a sulfer-based chemical, just like naturally occuring sulfer dioxide is - which is what people are smelling. No doubt methane and other natural gases are being released along with the sulfer dioxide.
That's why the Salton Sea story is bogus too - sulfer dioxide/rotten egg smell is NOT the same as dead fish smell. AND the winds have been flowing AWAY from LA, not towards LA, from the Salton Sea.
I don't live in the LA area. But if I did, I'd be OUT of there TONIGHT, for a few days, enjoying the high country somewhere, and watching the news!
Thanks, Laz... Northridge Earthquake nightmares, coming right up. Fortunately, I don't live anywhere near there anymore.
Thanks, Laz... Northridge Earthquake nightmares, coming right up. Fortunately, I don't live anywhere near there anymore.
They're media people, Laz. Not only wouldn't they shed a tear, they'd feed of the energy of the suffering with their close ups of anguish and "how do you feels" to the greif-stricken. Hell, to them it would be an all-you-can-eat-bring-the-family night!
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