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.
You're most likely exactly right, but the post-9/11 security environment and the proliferation of NYC-baseed media outlets that have a stake in keeping our adrenaline pumping -- and thus tuned into them -- is the perfect storm for making a mountain out of a molehill.
This has happened before in NY. I remember when I was a teenager on Long Island, what they called an "air inversion" (whatever that may be) caused all the rotten smells from the chemical plants in Elizabeth, Bayonne etc. to waft over the city and then over LI. It was a truly, truly horrible smell that I still have sense memory of today. But back in the late 1980s, we just turned on the radio, heard what was going on, and went about our business. Now it turns into a day-long story.
;-)
I would be speaking of authorities track record, period, not just as it relates to terrorism
>>>swarthy-looking gay illegal aliens driving on toll roads
I knew it! Golan Cipel farted!
::rim shot::
Yup. I remember these smells growing up too.
But now, these smells can drum up more homeland security money.
ping for future.
sorry charlie, you may take their word as gospel, however I am no longer willing to give this administration the benefit of the doubt about anything.
It would just be nice, if once in a while, they actually conducted an investigation before giving a press release declaring the results of the investigation. We would not accept a fire marshall ruling out arson before even showing up at the still blazing inferno. We wouldn't accept him doing that once, much less every single time.
"It may just be an unpleasant smell."
"We are waiting for the gas to pass," the mayor said.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_008093506.html
Bloombug hates having to associate with the hoi polloi.
Here is an investigation of what that smell is. AND, I won't charge :))
New Jersey SuperFund sites.
http://www.cqs.com/super_nj.htm
Remember, these are only the ones that didn't make the payoffs. The unknown ones usually have a preschool built on them.
My son works in manhatten, I'll hear about it later. Still though, how many billion$ are spent on homeland security but Fox News is on it right now? That "smell" could have been odorless anthrax or ebola, what then?
"We have no idea what it was, but we've ruled out the possibility of terrorism".
Only a tinfoiler wouldn't be comforted by those words.
That's a good thing. Adding odor to natural gas was done in response to the New London School Explosion in 1937.
Drives me NUTS! Thank you!
(I'm not stalking you, I swear, lol! But it really does seem that most days you're the only person making any sense at all around here.)
Anything that happens in NYC will break instantly by network media because they are based there. Interestingly, their headquarters are not far from each other in Midtown Manhattan, like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News, etc.
A few more tidbits NewsMax missed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637207/posts?page=19#19
Excerpt from link:
>>>The public has heard plenty about the "empty pit of Ground Zero," but most do not know that the $2.8 billion allocated to Lower Manhattan in cash grants has virtually all been spent. It is difficult to trace where all the money went while being routed through the Department of Housing and Urban Development and six different city and state entities. Now, after four-and-a-half years of press conferences, ribbon-cuttings and groundbreakings (the Freedom Tower has had two), at which the lost 343 firefighters were invoked and the memorial and museum was touted as the "centerpiece" around which hundreds of millions of dollars in spending projects would turn, Gov. Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have teamed up to tell the public that it's time to "rethink" the project where the history of those valiant firefighters will be secured. Not only does this undermine Daniel Libeskind's master plan, which always included a museum of "memory and hope," it also manifests a standard of fiscal responsibility that the governor and the mayor have refrained from imposing anywhere else at Ground Zero. <<<<
Upstate needs its own state.
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