Posted on 09/10/2012 2:31:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Authorities on Monday investigated widespread reports of a foul odor detected across the San Fernando Valley.
Shortly after 5:00 a.m., a “rotten egg-type” smell was reported “widely across (and possibly beyond) the north San Fernando Valley and Foothill communities of Los Angeles”, according to Brian Humphrey with the Los Angeles Fire Department.
No illnesses or any specific hazard has been associated with the odor, Humphrey told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.
The sulfur-type odor — which Humphrey said “appears to be organic in nature” — had been reported as far west as Simi Valley and as far east as Cathedral City and Perris in Riverside County.
While officials worked to investigate the source of the smell, officials did acknowledge the smell could be affecting a wider swath of Southern California.
Stephen Harrison with the National Weather Service office in San Diego told KNX 1070′s Vytas Safronikas that whatever the source or sources of sulphuric odor, wind currents have been moving in an east to west direction from the Salton Sea into parts of the Greater Los Angeles area.
“It’s always possible to get some kind of odor coming from the Salton Sea up through the Coachella Valley through the Banning Pass and into the Inland Empire,” said Harrison.
Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Monica Carazzo said the odor is affecting schedules at some local schools, including Osceola Street Elementary.
“Some schools are implementing a rainy day schedule, meaning that once kids get their lunch, they go inside of the classroom, recesses are inside, that type of thing,” said Carazzo. “But that’s school by school.”
Residents do not need to call 911 to report the odor unless they are experiencing a medical emergency, Humphrey said
Fire and brimstone!
Well....we have to 'fix' the weather, ya know.
Can't have tornadoes in New York. They must be moved back to the Midwest where they BELONG.
The article meantions Cathedral City. That is down near Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley.
they always RAMP up their site AFTER something is happening. kind of along the lines of the weather service changing their prediction of rain from 30% to 100% after it’s already raining. lol
The mayor must be back in town.
That’s encouraging; it somewhat supports the “swamp gas” theory.
been smelling it all day in east LA county San Dimas
Cabbage harvest?
What do you make of it?
What do you make of it?
Sounds like earth-trapped gasses are leaking, which may be a precurser to a hell of an earthquake.
That's my guess. And with a guy like Obama in power, this might be just the crisis he's looking for.
Maybe...hell?
Maybe one of Firsht Lady’s Easter Eggs got away from the White House but didn’t make it all the way back to the farm.
“This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl -” </Johnny>
I’ve been searching the internet for records of odors preceding earthquakes but am not coming up with much. Do you know of any sources on that?
This is a bald-faced lie - the wind directions is exactly opposite!
Ah, ya beat me to it!
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking!
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