Breaking News: Mysterious Gas Smell In New York

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] ]Reports indicate the odor is widespread throughout Manhattan, from Battery Park City to Upper Manhattan. The odor has been reported to be particularly strong around Herald Square and in NY1's neighborhood in Chelsea.

Some buildings throughout the city have reportedly been evacuated. PATH train service has been suspended between 33rd Street in Manhattan and Journal Square in New Jersey.

* LINK * (http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=65718)

[kg4kww]

Someone ate to many bean burritos http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center.

The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified.

Gas-like odor permeates Manhattan (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/ny.gas.odor.ap/index.html)

[KD6NIG]

Battery park. Perhaps all the batteries in the park decided to outgas at the same time?

[WB8MKV]

The "Big Apple" now a "sour Apple?"

[N2RJ]

Oh joy. Sometimes I wish I was still working in the city, I'd have the day off LOL.

[kg4kww]

Latest Video From NBC News NY (http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=7388b068-3145-4c5d-b22f-1ac39ea6038b&p=hotvideo_m_edpicks&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16524813/&fg=)

[K9STH]

Back in the mid 1950s, when I was in junior high school in northwestern Indiana, NIPSCO (the local gas / electric company) used to sink the "empty" containers from the chemical that was used to add the "smell" to natural gas in one of the local lakes. This, of course, was before any environmental concerns. One day one of these containers got loose and came to the surface of the lake. Frankly, the entire city (and for some miles around) smelled like "gas" for several days.

This was reported in the local newspaper and on the local radio station because of all the concern about a "gas leak".

I am thinking that something like this is what has happened in New York.

Glen, K9STH

[kg4kww]

BBC NEWS;Yanks Have Big Stink In Big Apple (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6241927.stm)

[W2LYS]

It wasn't me!

[kr2d]

Friends of ours had a strong odor of gas in their home. Called out the Fire Department and the gas company, evacuated the block, etc. It turned out that they had forgotten about a sack of onions that they stored in the basement several months prior.

[AC0H]

Hey, pull my finger! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[KC2KFC]

Probably just the typical down state stench.

[W3MIV]

Quote[/b] (KC2KFC @ Jan. 08 2007,15:13)]Probably just the typical down state stench.
And it ain't gonna get better.

[W2ILP]

The odor is caused to alert people that there is a natural gas leak, Because natural gas doesn't smell a stinking gas must be added to the natural gas. #Now if everyone in lower Mamnhattan smells the stinking gas it is dangerous. #We must now hope that nobody lights a cigarette there! #This will probably happen. #I figure that there are about 4 million people in lower Manhattan...so even with high cigarette taxes... somebody is going to light up. # What a revolting development!

w2ilp (Ignoring Leaking Pipes?http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif)...is dangerous. #My advice is to evacuate all Manhattanites to The Bronx or Brooklyn, where the odors are more natural.

[kg4kww]

Ah stench is ah stench of course unless it's from the famous talking hourse. The famous Mr. Ed. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif


Me thinks it's a bunch of Indians and imports from South of da border that ate to much of there type of food and have had to squeeze off several vollies of methaine. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

However, no one is mentioning the fact that maybe Bloomberg isn't giving the public the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in order to stave off a mass panic.

[kg4kww]

All hams are now on full gas alert

[G0GQK]

Apparently the foul odour has travelled for two miles so it must be a really big stink somewhere. The authorities have stated that it is not a natural gas leak so all those standing in the street having a "drag" are quite safe.

Could it be that NY is about to have its first volcano and this sulfur is leaking from its first blowhole ? OK, start panicking, load up the SUV with beer and blankets and leave town quick ! Don't forget the dog,or the kids !

G0GQK http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[al2i]

One of the kids in my advanced chemistry class when I was a senior in high school experimented with various mercaptan compounds (it is a mercaptan that is added to natural gas to give it its characteristic odor) and finally came up with one that was particularly pungent and smelled like a skunk had recently sprayed some rotten eggs. Phillip, who was a unabashed prankster, spent a lot of time working in a "hood". "Hoods" are special work areas where there is negative air pressure so that smells and hazardous fumes are vented outside the structure.

That school had a series of utility crawlways that the geeky group I was a member of used several times to pull various pranks, and on a particular spring Friday, we decided to pull one with mercaptan. I was not needed to be there, but I wanted this to happen and was always looking for excitement, so I came along for moral support.

To our good fortune, one of the utility crawlways led straight to an HVAC input for the whole school, and we were able to uncork and set a large beaker of Phil's highly refined and incredibly pungent mercaptan right in front of the intake. We didn't smell anything in the utlityway, but by the time we made our way back up into the building proper the first faint vapors of skunk and eggs were already becoming detectible. We beat a hasty exit and made our ways home for the weekend.

Monday morning was a bit of an anticlimax, as we could smell the odors throughout the school, but it was really faint, and the human nose adjusts to compensate for a persistent smell. It slowly became less and less noticable through the week, but was no big deal. Sigh.

The only excitement was the janitorial staff on that first afternoon spent quite a bit of time scrubbing out trashcans, dumpsters, bathrooms and so forth in a futile effort to eliminate the smell. Later, I learned that a very disappointed Phil had returned the beaker with its contents evaporated and vowed to "do it right next time". I wonder if he lives in NYC?

[N7RJD]

Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Jan. 08 2007,01:28)]Someone ate to many bean burritos http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center.

The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified.

Gas-like odor permeates Manhattan (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/08/ny.gas.odor.ap/index.html)
How is it I knew the title of this thread would bring kww in with the first reply? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[kg4kww]

Glad to see that you dug yourself out of the snow in Cheyenne KE7DLG. At least your air doesn't stink out in Wyoming. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

I will ask the question again since no one wants to answer it.

However, no one is mentioning the fact that maybe Bloomberg isn't giving the public the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in order to stave off a mass panic.

Could this be true?

[kg4kww]

I think the foul stench in NY could be caused by all the gas given off by the liberals in the form of a cloud traveling from DC to NY

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Jan. 08 2007,15:22)]I think the foul stench in NY could be caused by all the gas given off by the liberals in the form of a cloud traveling from DC to NY
No, I think it comes from all the republican neocons. They have been outgassing at a tremendous rate ever since the dems got elected in November.

[kg4kww]

Nope, since the dems took power the country has gone down the crapper and a foul stench has begun to rise from the sewage the dems are generating.

[al2i]

The stench is from all of the partisan bickering.

[kg4kww]

the odor that's over NYC is a combo of Denocratic and Alien space flatchulence. Or could they be one in the same? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[wz9o]

Where ever there is a group of commie-libs. There is always a foul stench in the air.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (kg4kww @ Jan. 08 2007,16:41)]Nope, since the dems took power the country has gone down the crapper and a foul stench has begun to rise from the sewage the dems are generating.
It's bubbling up from the turbulence. You see the dems and the libs led by Cindy Sheehan and Medea Benjamin flushed the neocon crud and hot air down the crapper. Now, we just have to wait till the stench dissipates and the air is once again the sweet perfume of positive liberal-progressive thinking.

[KC2ESD]

Some one light a Match, it will take care of the smell. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[n2nh]

I think this may be something like I saw in 1987. I was in Montreal that year and gasses started bubbling up in the St. Lawrence River. Apparently a disused garbage dump in the river started to generate gas. My suspicion at the time was that a fault line was being stressed prior to an earthquake. Within 4 months they had a major one in the region.

Time will tell. When the winds switched, there was a distinct Methane and mole smell. Since it doesn't seem to have been man-made, that leaves a few natural ways for the gas to come out.

Craig Ferguson said that Trump is blaming Rosie. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[WS2L]

How can you actually say that there was an odor in the city ? It smells bad enough, figured most wouldn't tell the difference.

[KC0NBW]

just for the record, where are billary and slick willie ? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[n2nh]

AFAIK, they're still partying like it's 2008. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[kg4kww]

Yep the libs are full of flatchulence, that's for sure.

[wz9o]

[QUOTE]
Yep the libs are full of flatchulence, that's for sure.


You would think that they would run out of it sooner or later since they spew so much of it here.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (WS2L @ Jan. 09 2007,01:13)]How can you actually say that there was an odor in the city ? It smells bad enough, figured most wouldn't tell the difference.
Yeah, the reason it smells bad in the city is because all the foul gas floats across from the red states and passes over the city before it goes out to sea.

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (n2ize @ Jan. 09 2007,10:57)]Quote[/b] (WS2L @ Jan. 09 2007,01:13)]How can you actually say that there was an odor in the city ? It smells bad enough, figured most wouldn't tell the difference.
Yeah, the reason it smells bad in the city is because all the foul gas floats across from the red states and passes over the city before it goes out to sea.
Quite true. Most Central states are high polluters. Prevailing winds push the pollution eastward. This has been proven as a cause for the acid rain that is destroying our forests.

If you can't beat them, move. I plan to. ASAP. Probably to a Red State to pollute the vote. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[wz9o]

Sounds like NYC is infested with barking moonbat droppings

[k4kyv]

It's official - New Jersey is the culprit!

http://www.cnn.com/2007....stories (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/09/nyc.odor.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)

[kr2d]

Maybe it was the skunk that was in my backyard yesterday? It's 50 miles to NYC from my house, so that's a long way for a smell to travel.

BTW, my wife and kids had seen the skunk in the evening, and neglected to tell me about it before I let the dog out just before going to bed. You guessed it, the dog found the skunk. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif It's not the first time he's been skunked (dogs are stupid), so we had the anti-skunk stuff on hand to clean him up. The stuff works, but he still smells a bit - it takes a couple of days for it to stop smelling completely.

[n2ize]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Jan. 09 2007,10:26)]It's official - New Jersey is the culprit!

http://www.cnn.com/2007....stories (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/09/nyc.odor.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
Years ago I knew the transmitter engineer for WNEW AM.(now Bloomberg radio) Every now and then I used to visit him over at the WNEW transmitter site which is located directly across from Manhattan in the Jersey swamps.One of the roads leading to the transmitter site was called "pipeline" road, appropriately named for the gas pipeline that runs through the area. I remember it always smelled very strong from natural gas along that road. I suppose under the right weather conditions the stench could traverse across the river.

Incidentally in those days WNEW-AM had a beautiful vintage 50 kilowatt "Continental" AM transmitter. It ran a pair of 4CX35000's in the finals. Sadly I heard that great ol' rig was eventually gutted and scrapped. I did hear a rumor that several AM'ers managed to salvage some of the parts. Boy, had I known they were just going to throw it out I would have loved to have that transmitter. How I would ever manage to get it into my ham shack I couldn't imagine. I doubt the floor would be strong enough to support the weight. Nonethless, it would have made a great addition to my collection of old vintage gear. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[KG6YTZ]

Quote[/b] (al2i @ Jan. 08 2007,13:46)]One of the kids in my advanced chemistry class when I was a senior in high school experimented with various mercaptan compounds (it is a mercaptan that is added to natural gas to give it its characteristic odor) and finally came up with one that was particularly pungent and smelled like a skunk had recently sprayed some rotten eggs.
In high school shop class, we did a project where we embossed thin brass sheets, then "antiqued" them in a chemical called "liver of sulfur."

It smelled every bit as bad as you might expect something called "liver of sulfur" to smell. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Real headline, via Jay Leno: "Gas Smell Diverts Flight, But It Was Just Passenger's Pants."