Posted on 10/29/2005 1:01:14 PM PDT by kinghorse
I experienced something weird driving around 4:30 PM CST yesterday and decided to vanity post to see if any other Houston people know about this.
I was driving on the Houston West Park Tollway yesterday when it happened. I'm attempting to gather more information about before contacting authorities.
If you were on this tollway in Houston yesterday, did anyone else notice the large open 30 X 30 shipping door attached to a warehouse before you get to Gessner and Beltway 8 on the right side of Westpark going west? It's got a large square aluminum or ss steel tubing assembly with rotating spray fittings situated about every five feet of the tubing spraying out a fine mist. It looks like the frame to a gigantic sports net without the net, but what it is is a giant spraying station or maybe even a large automatic car wash, if you get my drift. The only problem, it's big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
When I saw this and I swear I did, I immediately thought of the mystery smell reported in Manhattan Wednesday night I believe. I had my windows down in the car and as soon as I passed this place downwind I smelled a smell almost like cocoa butter or a very sweet fragrance presumably emanating from this structure. I got goosebumps when I ran into this smell after seeing the contraption. What a way to test area coverage. You couldn't miss the smell if you encountered it. I imagine a group trying to ascertain the efficacy of an aerosol attack would send out a signature smell first to determine wind drift and coverage.
How difficult would it be to lease empty whse space around a town and set up thes misting contraptions connected to a air compressor and a venturi atomizer spraying something sinister into the air? Around Harwin and Westpark there are miles of cheap whse space in business parks. Every big city has these areas that abutt residential areas. First responders would perish along with the people unlucky enough to be hit by the chemical or biological substance being sprayed. I imagine perps could set up such a contraption and just walk away and watch the mayhem. It's be like a sniper scene where the people coming to save get taken down until you have big pile of people and the hazmat people show. Terrifying.
I'm going back over there today to see if it's something normal for manufacturing before call the police. Crazy times and because it's been so long between a huge attack, everyone's letting up their guard. I'm not.
Sounds like Metro's facilty....they have a huge drive thru bus wash.
Take a gander at the site on Google Earth...
vewwy interestink...
Or not...
Hope this file thing works...Its the Google Earth image file I saved of that area...
Which building is it???
Crud, can't get it to embed on the post here...Oh well...
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