Posted on 09/29/2005 10:21:34 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
WASHINGTON - A bizarre day for D.C. Fire & EMS after several dozen phone calls have been received about unexplained odors all across the city.
Spokesman Alan Etter says between midnight and 1 p.m. Wednesday, they have received 36 calls. Firefighters have responded to 11 schools, as well as the fifth and sixth district police stations.
What the odor is and where it's coming from remains a mystery.
Washington Gas is confident that natural gas is not the source of the problem. Company spokesman Tim Sargeant says they're still working on it.
Etter says it's possible that storm drains could be to blame, since the lack of rain has kept them from being flushed.
Here is the list of schools affected:
Smothers Elementary School, 4400 Brooks St., NE
Orr Elementary School, 2200 Minnesota Ave., SE
Eliot Junior High School, 1830 Constitution Ave., NE
Kenilworth Elementary School, 1300 44th St., NE
Spingarn High School, 2500 Benning Rd., NE
Young Elementary School, 829 26th St., NE
Hine Junior High School, 225 8th St., SE
Maury Elementary School, 1250 Constitution Ave., NE
Cooke Elementary School, 2525 17th St., NW
Randle Highlands Elementary School, 1650 30th St., SE
Hamilton School, 1401 Brentwood Pkwy., NE
Nancy Pelosi's perfume!!
Dear gawd that thing is awful. I drive past it on the way to the Navy Yard and its awful, just awful.
It's just the Dems blowing it out their a$$es, as usual.
This should be a good thread..... LOL!
Washington Post update: (lengthy)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/28/AR2005092802417.html
I can personally attest to that. Those hippies stunk like no smell I've ever smelled before.
"It smelled like skunk, rotten eggs and sulfur," she said, adding that her description might not have done the odor justice.
Just schools? Why just schools?
Perhaps leftover odors from last weekends anti-war protestors and the lefties still in town? They are the great unwashed...
Chris! Put your shoes back on!
Eleanor Norton Holmes finally changed her underwear?
Hillary airing out the black pantsuit for her Presidential run?
Chuck Schumer burning the Constitution?
Your guess is as good as mine...
A city built on swamp land, schools probably occupying less than primo sites. Swamp, weird smells. That's a mystery.
"Hillary has a yeast infection????......"
That would cause Washington to rise about 6" more above sea level.
Perhaps she should be sent to New Orleans as part of the reconstruction effort.
Its probably the constitution starting to rot.
ROFL!! Charles, you did it again.
It's Silent Killer Gas Passer.
Hey, it wasn't me! I'm not even close to DC!
Must be time for Old Crusty to be changed.
The smell would disappear if they sent all the students in those fine, inner-city institutions of learning, home to bathe!!!
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