Oooo that smell...can you smell that smell???
Posted on 01/08/2007 9:40:02 AM PST by presidio9
Mayor Bloomberg said the city does not know what the puzzling odor wafting over Manhattan and N.J. is, but "it does not appear to be dangerous."'
Hundreds of calls came in about the smell beginning at about 9 a.m. from as far south as Battery Park and east to Union Square and all the way through the West 80s on the Upper West Side. The odor also could be detected in New Jersey.
The smell disrupted some PATH transit service and prompted office buildings to evacuate.
"Our sensors do not show any high concentration of natural gas that would give us cause to be concerned," Bloomberg said at a morning press conference.
"We don't know what it is. It does not appear to be dangerous ... it may just be an unpleasant smell," he said. "The one thing we are very confident of is that it's not dangerous."
Bloomberg said investigators from the Office of Emergency Management, FDNY, NYPD, Coast Guard and other departments are probing the cause of the odor.
The mayor noted that natural gas is odorless and colorless. However, a chemical called mercaptan is added to the substance to make sure it can be detected. He said just a small amount can create an odor.
One small gas leak has been detected at Bleeker Street and Sixth Avenue, Bloomberg said, adding that it is too insignificant to have caused the widespread odor that has put the city on edge.
Consolidated Edison officials said they have more than 60 workers checking for leaks after the company received more than 700 calls about the smell, from as far north as Washington Heights to as far south as Greenwich Village
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No mystery. Someone had sauerkraut and beer for supper last night.
What if this gas were one half of a binary poison?
2) Never tell the truth, find out the truth and if its politically incorrect, lie, lie , lie.
This gas is actually a dual matrix explosion preparation, first the air is saturated with a gas, then the secondary component is ignited to encompass a 20 block area of Manhatten, including Mayor Bloombergs Orifice.
Long may he stink.
Conservative thinking:
1) What is the gas: We do not know, air asamples are now being taken for spectographic analysis. The analysis will be completed by tomorrow.
2) What is the worst case scenario: Answ.: a primary matric for a dual matrix explosive device.
3) Prepare for the worst case scenario until the results indicate otherwise. Find the source.
4) Tell the public the truth,and if the liberals among them can't take it, we have the Brooklyn bridge for them to jump from.
5) Prepare evacuation plan.
Source?
I work across the street from Ground Zero. This morning we got the email from security that I have been expecting ever since I started working down here: Due to an unfamiliar gas in the air, the building was sealed and the ventilators were turned off until further notice.
Oooo that smell...can you smell that smell???
count is up to 60 now, main street through austin still closed. according to fox
Since mercaptan is such an easily traced gas in extremely small amounts, maybe someone was rehearsing just to see how far a lethal gas would go and its likely path.
This incident illustrates just how vulnerable we are in the event of a terrorist gas attack.
Not to worry..Pelosi and company have a 100 hour plan to solve all the worlds problems..(sarc/off)
I was under the impression that gas, laced with biological/radiological wasn't efficient because of dispersal in the air.......
'course, I'm sure there are qualified individuals "on the board" who could offer their opinions.
As far as rehearsal is concerned. I definitely believe something is "in the works".
The gas, the truck cab, the muddahs on the airline (spelling on purpose)
If events that turn-out to be NON events occur from time-to-time, pretty soon they become ignored.....ignore enough and sooner or later there is catastrophe.
aren't pidgeons and chickens used as early detection against poisonous gasses?? what kind of birds are dying?? anyone know?
Is it? Have we taken a gas sniffer in the area, or is it just like Hoboken?
My thought is that a bunch of ragheads in separate rented apts. all left their gas on.
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Sounds to me like it already has!!! LOL!!! Perhaps he meant to say "dissipate" rather than "pass".
And now they know.
Hold on... let me go put on my tinfoil hat. ;)
["Not dangerous"? Perhaps not this time. But the implications are chillng, and have not even been addressed by anyone in the government or the media.
A mysterious gas smell simultaneously blankets the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and much of Manhattan. Hours later, authorities don't have a clue as to its origin.]
Somebody "get's it".
200 Evacuated at Costco [Salem, Oregon]
Salem Costco evacuation mirrored those in other states (mystery illness)
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