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Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan
WNBC ^ | 1-8-06 | WNBC

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brokaw; callingartbell; gas; jerroldnadler; manhattan; michaelmoore; newyork; njfarts; odor
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To: Cold Heat

Pat this old lady on the back. Suggested an inversion way upthread!


141 posted on 01/08/2007 7:20:41 AM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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To: dogbyte12

I thought that was typical.


142 posted on 01/08/2007 7:20:44 AM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: Cold Heat; mewzilla

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.


143 posted on 01/08/2007 7:21:29 AM PST by sodpoodle (There are more sparrows than eagles!)
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To: OldFriend

I would think the news channels should at least mention that possibility.


144 posted on 01/08/2007 7:21:29 AM PST by John W
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To: Cold Heat

good point - but they did NOT identify the substance... they're all just babbling


145 posted on 01/08/2007 7:21:43 AM PST by LadyBuzz
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To: daylate-dollarshort

LOL, she is an administrative assistant for a Doctor. She deals with paperwork all day and nothing more, lol!


146 posted on 01/08/2007 7:21:50 AM PST by Halls (God, please grant me the serenity to accept what I can not change....)
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To: OldFriend
Pat this old lady on the back. Suggested an inversion way upthread!

YOUNG lady.

147 posted on 01/08/2007 7:22:36 AM PST by onyx (DONATE NOW! -- It takes DONATIONS to keep FR running!!)
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To: OldFriend
Paper-mill stink smell much the same. I'll bet a dollar it's a paper mill up river, and there is a thermal keeping the stink low to the ground.

This entire thing is totally ridiculous...LOL....The shallowness of people just amazes me....

148 posted on 01/08/2007 7:22:49 AM PST by Cold Heat ("Ward!.........Go easy on the beaver"!)
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To: tubebender

Good point on the warm weather, I wonder if it is lowtide right now?


149 posted on 01/08/2007 7:23:39 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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To: dogbyte12
Why haven't the dems done anything about this yet? Why do they hate New Yorkers?
150 posted on 01/08/2007 7:23:44 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Cold Heat

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.


151 posted on 01/08/2007 7:24:16 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: mewzilla
>>If someone spilled a quart of methyl or ethyl mercaptan it'd smell up a large area.
>Where's/when's that added to the nat gas? Does the additive get trucked around?

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.

152 posted on 01/08/2007 7:25:00 AM PST by Tinian
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To: LadyBuzz
A stink is a compound, and not easily identifiable. What they do is check for a variety of known dangerous molecules. If they are not present in quantities that exceed norms, the stink is safe.
153 posted on 01/08/2007 7:25:11 AM PST by Cold Heat ("Ward!.........Go easy on the beaver"!)
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To: dogbyte12

I wouldn't be surprised it isn't our govt, doing a test to see how far a gas could go and how quick


154 posted on 01/08/2007 7:25:40 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: east1234

In response to myself it looks like lowtide occurred on the Hudson at 8:30am, this and the warm temperatures could explain it.


155 posted on 01/08/2007 7:26:00 AM PST by east1234 (It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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To: Cold Heat

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....


156 posted on 01/08/2007 7:26:17 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Cold Heat

*Known*


157 posted on 01/08/2007 7:26:18 AM PST by pacelvi
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To: dogbyte12

That picture I'm seeing on my TV right now, is that the cloud, or is that today's weather?


158 posted on 01/08/2007 7:26:37 AM PST by Howlin (Not voting GOP was like being thirsty but not drinking since the glass is only 75% full ~~SoCalPol)
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To: jennyjenny
All I know is that the situation is critical enough that they stopped production of ESPN2's Cold Pizza program this morning. (Cold Pizza is produced at a studio right across the street from Madison Square Garden.)
159 posted on 01/08/2007 7:26:41 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: RayChuang88; All

Here it ishttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537988/posts


160 posted on 01/08/2007 7:28:08 AM PST by CindyDawg (May your dreams be big and your worries be small (RF))
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