Plane dumps white substance in Bolles Harbor

The Toledo Blade ^ | 7/31/07 | Blade Staff

[sidetracked]

Tests are being conducted this morning to determine what is the white substance that was dumped by a plane last night over a neighborhood in Bolles Harbor, Michigan, just south of Monroe.

The plane flew over the area about 8:30 last night, dumping a white substance on homes and vehicles in such a way that it looked like it was snowing.

[rbosque]

Good luck. I hope it’s nothing bad.

[RckyRaCoCo]

His wife described it as a tan substance, almost talc-like. Mr. Dezell washed it off surfaces with no problem.

Nestles Quick?

[freepertoo]

(((Silver Surfer?)))

It’s clobberin’ time!

[19th LA Inf]

An old WW2 joke: Engine room watch on a battleship calls the bridge: "Request permission to blow stacks"

90 day wonder Reservist: "We have retired the bugler for the night"

[rwfromkansas]

So, was it white, brown, or tan?

Must be a lot of idiots up there....don’t even know what color it is.

[rfp1234]

Asbestos?

[jdm]

Did someone there die recently and want their ashes scattered in the harbor?

That would be a pretty big person.

"Hi, I'm new to your town - do you know where I can find a quality piece of ash?"

[Spunky]

Keep us posted if you ever find out what it was.

[IonImplantGuru]

She don't lie, She don't lie, She don't lie; cocaine.

She??? Yowzers! All these years I could have sworn it was a different word. Kind of like the Paul McCartney & Wings song that the play list says is 'Helen Wheels', huh?

[AdamSelene235]

Prolly just a mixture of anthrax, blackpox (smallpox-bubonic chimera) and Ustinov Marburg.

Nothing to worry about as long you have duct tape.

You ....do ....have....duct tape?

[yooper]

Its probably fly ash.

[Blood of Tyrants]

UPDATE:

http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070731/NEWS01/107310046

[yooper]

Fly ash is a harmless by-product of the burning of coal. The only thing at odds with this theory is that fly ash, if its of a good quality, is a valuable admixture in low strength Portland cement. No way someone would eject it from an airplane if they could sell it. Even if it was of low quality, the risk of ejecting it from a plane and having everyone freak out (like what is happening here) is great.

Everyone should calm down until the material is identified....

[festus]

It was Chicago.

The people weren’t homeless.

They were taking a river tour on a boat.

Its usually a pretty nice tour except for that day .....

[SteamShovel]

it is white coal dust from a nuclear power plant stack blowdown; the plane was not the source

Its not from the Fermi-II Nuclear plant (no coal there). It is most likely from the large Monroe plant or the smaller one at Luna Pier.

I wonder why residents haven't had flyash before so they knew what it was. I'd think it would be common by now... it was in the neighborhood of the power plant I used to work at.

I also wonder why the news was reporting a plane dropped "white powder"??????

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

PRayers UP FReeper FRiend. To you and your neighbors.

[Diggity]

LOL

[AnimalLover]

BUMP

[anymouse]

For what purpose is a coal fired furnace used at the Fermi 2 Nuclear Power Station?

Incinerator of lightly contaminated waste materials? If so, I would be careful breathing in the stuff.

Also soot in coal furnaces can be pretty radioactive all by itself.

[Ender Wiggin]

I also wonder why the news was reporting a plane dropped “white powder”??????

If a coal plant cleaned a stack or lost a filter it would not be scary. A plane dusting houses with white powder is sacary, so that’s what gets reported.

If we are not frightened worried or hungry we can’t be controlled by anyone.