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.
"It started in NJ - no kidding." Maybe it's from the refineries in Secaucus, NJ. If the wind was blowing the right direction, it could effect a large portion of Manhattan.
Not in this part of the state but my daughter said she could smell it in NYC.
The refineries in northern New Jersey are in the Linden/Elizabeth area. Secaucus has many outlet stores but no refineries. Although some years ago, there were many hog farms and slaughterhouses in Secaucus and that smelled like, well.....a pig pen.
Methyl mercaptan has to be one of the most potent smelling substance out there. Even a drop can do it and ruined a good shoe.
It's great when freepers at least admit when they've changed sides.
Again, no such place.
Perhaps you mean NEW JERSEY.
There are no refineries in Seacaucus.
A whole bunch of that portion of your post about the OU bombing isn't true at all.
No smell here but there are these strange white particles falling out of the sky.
When I was a little kid in Houston, we'd get warm air inversions all the time and the smell from the refineries on the east side of town would drift westward to our residential area.
The refineries were in Pasadena, TX - and that's what we always called that stinky smell - "I smell Pasadena."
Imagine my amazement when the Rose Bowl parade was on TV from stinky Pasadena (to a little kid's mind).
It took many, many years and lots of PR dollars for the town of Pasadena (TX) to live that all down. Right now, though, we have some kind of algae bloom or fish kill on Brays Bayou that sends that rotten bathroom smell through the neighborhood for days on end - and the first thing I always think is "I smell Pasadena."
"Some things never change - eh, hoser?"
Hoser, eh? Well, TAKE OFF!
And Joe Piscopo, don't forget Joe Piscopo! He's from Joisey too.
So, is this story over with? I just found out about it on FR and now it's "finis"? What was it?
Thanks for the info.
Plotting, scheming, wishing does not equal a successfully executed attack. "We have no evidence to indicate" does not equal "We have ruled out." Etc.
Thanks. Sad how much this place has changed from 6 years ago.
"It's great when freepers at least admit when they've changed sides."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/865000/images/_865697_10_300.jpg
"Our biggest challenge will be to separate my uncle from the rest of the Republican Party."
"‘This is a President who represents the diversity of our society, who we can count on to change the Republican Party to represent our views.’" … He told the rally his mother had instilled him the values of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano activist who fought for the rights of migrant farmworkers in the United States. ‘She told me we have to fight for our race, we have to find the leaders who represent us,’ he said in fluent Spanish.’"
Tell me again...who left whom?
So you picking on us Joisey guys again? ;)
Yawn.
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