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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: Fierce Allegiance

I'm not familiar with those lines. Clarification?


301 posted on 01/08/2007 8:38:29 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in Iraq)
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To: sasha123

just reporting your bird story on Fox


302 posted on 01/08/2007 8:39:40 AM PST by Kimberly GG (PATRIOTS MARCH TO "TAKE BACK AMERICA" (www.lframerica.com ))
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To: THEBEAK
Is this a test-run for someone?

Wouldn't surprise me, although the disruption it's already causing is enough of a problem. They don't even have to DO anything other than this every once in a while.

303 posted on 01/08/2007 8:39:49 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: commish

Yes, but there may be a connection to the Sierra Nevada hot water well!


304 posted on 01/08/2007 8:39:51 AM PST by Eighth Square
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To: dogbyte12; All

Breaking on FOX: Dozens of birds mysteriously dropping dead in Austin Texas. An area of the city has been closed down. Interesting.


305 posted on 01/08/2007 8:40:21 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in Iraq)
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To: daylate-dollarshort

LOLOLOL.


306 posted on 01/08/2007 8:41:23 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Father of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier fighting the terrorists in Iraq)
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To: dogbyte12
Not to panic. The PBR (Pro Bull Riders) just put on a two day event in Madison Square Garden for the first time in history and it has to be from the bull manure. After all if it is causing Global Warming why not mere gas in N.Y.
307 posted on 01/08/2007 8:43:35 AM PST by fish hawk (. B O stinks. That would be body odor and Barak Obama)
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To: daylate-dollarshort

We can smell it here in Charleston, SC too. Oh wait, it's the paper mill.


308 posted on 01/08/2007 8:47:23 AM PST by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: dogbyte12

Perhaps Hillary is in town?


309 posted on 01/08/2007 8:48:19 AM PST by baltoga
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To: dogbyte12
Lots of potential sources.


310 posted on 01/08/2007 8:50:39 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: Vaquero

That's enough! ;)
NJ


311 posted on 01/08/2007 8:52:50 AM PST by toldyou
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To: SoldierDad

I was reading that article. They all all in one area. Maybe someone shot them.


312 posted on 01/08/2007 8:52:53 AM PST by CindyDawg (May your dreams be big and your worries be small (RF))
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To: dogbyte12

I am betting someone got ahold of a canister of mercaptan (the odor in some odorless gasses) and drove around releasing the stuff. The purpose being to induce panic which it seems to have done. Even to the point of panic induced illness.


313 posted on 01/08/2007 8:54:10 AM PST by lawdude (2006: The election"s we will live to die for!)
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To: Kimberly GG
Todd Whitmann explains that they have ruled out all dangerous chemicals, so therefore, whatever it is, is safe. Now if you believe that....

I realize that the tinfoilers are always assuming that the authorities are lying and every event is a terror attack (by swarthy-looking gay illegal aliens driving on toll roads) but try and look at the facts. The smell was reported both in Manhattan and Jersey City, which is west of Manhattan. However the wind was from the south and southwest, up from calm during the 8am hour and beyond.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KEWR.html

If it originated in Manhattan, how would a wind out of the south blow it west into Jersey City? But what is south/southwest of both Manhattan and Jersey City? Lots and lots of petrochemical manufacturing plants. Google Earth places like Bayonne, Elizabeth, and Port Reading, NJ, along the water to the north and west of Staten Island. Anyone who has lived anywhere close to Houston's similar ship channel complex of petrochemical plants can tell of times when stinky but harmless smells from these plants would drift and linger over a large area of towns, especially in cloudy winter weather just like NYC is experiencing today.

314 posted on 01/08/2007 8:54:48 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (An easy 10-team playoff based on the BCS bowls can be implemented by next year. See my homepage.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

I think "the authorities" track record leads to a lot of this.


315 posted on 01/08/2007 8:56:30 AM PST by John W
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Your explanation makes the most sense. Given the times we live in -- with NYC being number 1 terror target, the "authorities" here really should have had a handle on it early on.


316 posted on 01/08/2007 9:00:04 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: freeperfromnj

Did you see the mayor?He barely had a handle on his temper.


317 posted on 01/08/2007 9:01:03 AM PST by John W
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To: John W
I think "the authorities" track record leads to a lot of this.

The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly. In contrast, the now inane "Nothing to see folks, move along" sarcastic post has been made 1,000 times on FR, and each times indeed it ended up being nothing. Yet no matter how many times these paranoid cynics' ignorant prognastications prove to be wrong, they still return each time to insist that if she floats, she must be a witch.

318 posted on 01/08/2007 9:01:42 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (An easy 10-team playoff based on the BCS bowls can be implemented by next year. See my homepage.)
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To: green iguana

I just heard it on the news......now it's up to 60 dead birds.


319 posted on 01/08/2007 9:02:08 AM PST by Fawn (NEVER GO TO 'APPLIANCE KING' IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA--THEY SCAM YOU!!!)
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To: freeperfromnj
Three tips

1)Get out of the city.
2)Get out of the city.
3)Get out of the city.

320 posted on 01/08/2007 9:09:46 AM PST by processing please hold (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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