Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:42 AM PST by dogbyte12
YORK -- People all over a large part of New York City are smelling a gas, and it's not clear where it's coming from.
Numerous people have called 911 concerned about the odor. Con Edison, the Fire Department and the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating.
PATH service has been suspended into the 33rd Street station. Service is still going into the World Trade Center station.
Macy's department store has been evacuated, according to reports.
There also are unconfirmed reports of a similar smell across the river in New Jersey.
People between Midtown and Battery Park are reported to be smelling it. At NBC headquarters in Rockefeller Plaza, the odor is very strong. One person who works on the sixth floor at 30 Rockefeller Center says it's so strong people are leaving the building.
At one major office building at 37th and 7th, employees have been told that Con Edison is looking into a smell, and they should remain inside until they hear otherwise.
Mayor Bloomberg is expected to be asked about it at a 9:30 briefing with the media.
Pat this old lady on the back. Suggested an inversion way upthread!
I thought that was typical.
Thanks for the info - it was mewzilla's question.
I am thinking if it is natural gas, surely something would have set off an explosion before now ....with the volume required to cover the area described, that would be one helluva gas leak.
I would think the news channels should at least mention that possibility.
good point - but they did NOT identify the substance... they're all just babbling
LOL, she is an administrative assistant for a Doctor. She deals with paperwork all day and nothing more, lol!
YOUNG lady.
This entire thing is totally ridiculous...LOL....The shallowness of people just amazes me....
Good point on the warm weather, I wonder if it is lowtide right now?
To be fair, the infrastructure in NY has been known to be spotty, and NY is the #1 target for terrorists. Knowing these two things, you might be concerned if your building is filled with what smells like natural gas.
I worked near the natural gas storage field at Leidy, PA. They would pump the gas into a depleted gas field for storage without the odorant and add the odorant at the compressor station as they pumped it out for consumption.
At high concentrations methyl or ethyl mercaptan don't smell anything like the unburned gas from a stove. The odor is, well -- a really, really--twist your stomach and make you want to puke type of a reek.
If this is some sort of prank or terrorist scare somebody must've thought out how to disperse it.
I wouldn't be surprised it isn't our govt, doing a test to see how far a gas could go and how quick
In response to myself it looks like lowtide occurred on the Hudson at 8:30am, this and the warm temperatures could explain it.
Could be a mercaptan spill..intentional or accidental...mental visions of laughing terrorists driving around the NYC and NJ area dribbling a trail of mercaptan behind them....
*Known*
That picture I'm seeing on my TV right now, is that the cloud, or is that today's weather?
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