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.
My exact first thought!!!!
Lots of Fire engines all over the place. I can hear them from my window. I hope they find the source of this. What a pain! It's more of an annoyance than anything else.
If you have a bad feeling, maybe you should listen to your gut rather than your scheduler
ABC Radio now reporting that there was a gas leak down in Bleeker Street.(lower manhattan)
" Seems like even a pretty large release of natural gas would disperse quicker than that. "
The scientists among us can correct me, but I believe natural gas is heavier than air, and in still air will collect at ground level...
If there's no wind to speak of, accumulations are possible...
FAE on a grand scale, maybe?? (Fuel-Air-Explosive)
"Does the additive get trucked around?"
Excellent question Mewz, the Fox news guys have not asked.
per Drudge
FOX is covering it, if it turns out like yesterday's mega alert at the Miami port you have nothing to worry about.
And not only that, but what kind of effect can these chemicals have on their own, without being added to the natural gas? Are they harmful?
Yes it does. Google "natural gas oderant" or Scentinel and you'll get hits about tankers and cylinders and distribution nets.
I'm not an expert, that's all I did was google.
Gas main leak, per drudge, abc, and FOX
That's what I was thinking. Fox is reporting that the odor is very strong in their building. Saying that authorities are saying, off the record, that it is "coming" from Jersey City. Isn't that where the blind sheik lived and recruited? Could this be a "test" to see how things drift in the air? Boy, do I sound paranoid!?
I can smell it here in my building in West Midtown. If this thing is covering an area this large, my guess is that it's more likely to be from an industrial source somewhere upwind.
Are you sure it's gas? or is it a$$ that you are smelling?
Some are saying its coming from New Jersey which is a good possibility.
Well, at least we know it was probably not you.
Thank you! Well, it sounds like they've located the problem. Bleeker St. Good think they didn't spell it with an "a".
That may be exactly what it is. Sometimes equipment will malfunction and add way too much methyl mercaptan. Tiny pinhole-sized leaks and slightly loose seals that pose no threat suddenly smell like a broken pipe.
FOX is speculating now about terrorism. rme
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