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Gas Smelled Over Large Area Of Manhattan
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Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:42 AM PST by dogbyte12
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To: coloradan
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:49:51 AM PST
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(New Jersey gets the corrupt government it deserves!)
To: areafiftyone
Still at work! I can smell it now. It really smells like gas! She who smelt it, dealt it.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:50:40 AM PST
by
Constitution Day
("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
To: areafiftyone
The odorant added to gas to make it smell "like gas" is extremely smelly. Maybe a few bottles of the pure odorant have been opened all over the place. I can see some terrorist scenario-setups here.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:51:13 AM PST
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: dogbyte12
Does every thread have to instantly degenerate into some sort of open mic night at the local dive bar? Not every story is an opportunity to crack open the lame joke book you got for Christmas, folks.
To: dogbyte12
Natural gas is oderless, they add methyl mercaptan to it that stinks, and the sulfur in it gives the flame a blue tint.
If someone spilled a quart of methyl or ethyl mercaptan it'd smell up a large area.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:51:23 AM PST
by
DBrow
To: dogbyte12
If it's a terrorist attack, it's pretty crafty. Access to gas lines is pretty much unimpeded. A maniac, or a group of maniacs, only have to cut a number of lines throughout the city, light a match and boom.
To: dogbyte12
That's really odd... seems like too big an area for a natural gas leak. Seems like even a pretty large release of natural gas would disperse quicker than that.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:51:31 AM PST
by
Ramius
([sip])
To: mewzilla
Reporter from a building on 6th avenue says people that are evacuating "sort of leaving on their own"...LOL..
sw
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:51:47 AM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife ("One Nation, One Standard")
To: dogbyte12
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:52:39 AM PST
by
meg88
To: DBrow
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?
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:53:18 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: DouglasKC
"cut a number of lines throughout the city, light a match and boom".
Anti-smoking bunch?
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:53:53 AM PST
by
sodpoodle
(There are more sparrows than eagles!)
To: areafiftyone
Still at work! I can smell it now. It really smells like gas!Will you confirm for us please that it is natural gas? Or some other gaseous smell?
It's amazing that the news report does not make that clear. As if all gasses are the same.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:00 AM PST
by
Semper911
("We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it." -Marge Simpson)
To: DBrow
Spilling a bottle of methyl mercaptan would be a good way to deliberately affect commerce though. If it smelled like natural gas to me, I wouldn't risk it being nothing. A ton of businesses are shutting down right now.
To: dogbyte12
I work a few blocks north of $hitty Hall. No smell here as yet (Bloomie must be outta town).
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:28 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
To: DouglasKC
It started in NJ - no kidding.
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:29 AM PST
by
relee
To: TerP26; areafiftyone
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:35 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years)
To: dogbyte12
No big deal, Rosie is in New York today. And she didn't fart, the smell is coming from another hole.
37
posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:50 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(If you can't light a fire in the vacuum of space what's the deal with the Sun?)
To: dogbyte12
Another Taco Bell food alert??
38
posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:54 AM PST
by
IamConservative
(Any man who agrees with you on everything, will lie to anyone.)
To: dogbyte12
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:54:57 AM PST
by
higgmeister
(In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
To: spectre
Reporter from a building on 6th avenue says people that are evacuating "sort of leaving on their own"...LOL..I would, too, though I'd be wondering where it's safe to go if the stench is that widespread :)
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posted on
01/08/2007 6:55:00 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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