Posted on 01/08/2007 6:45:42 AM PST by dogbyte12
I'm not familiar with those lines. Clarification?
just reporting your bird story on Fox
Wouldn't surprise me, although the disruption it's already causing is enough of a problem. They don't even have to DO anything other than this every once in a while.
Yes, but there may be a connection to the Sierra Nevada hot water well!
Breaking on FOX: Dozens of birds mysteriously dropping dead in Austin Texas. An area of the city has been closed down. Interesting.
LOLOLOL.
We can smell it here in Charleston, SC too. Oh wait, it's the paper mill.
Perhaps Hillary is in town?
That's enough! ;)
NJ
I was reading that article. They all all in one area. Maybe someone shot them.
I am betting someone got ahold of a canister of mercaptan (the odor in some odorless gasses) and drove around releasing the stuff. The purpose being to induce panic which it seems to have done. Even to the point of panic induced illness.
I realize that the tinfoilers are always assuming that the authorities are lying and every event is a terror attack (by swarthy-looking gay illegal aliens driving on toll roads) but try and look at the facts. The smell was reported both in Manhattan and Jersey City, which is west of Manhattan. However the wind was from the south and southwest, up from calm during the 8am hour and beyond.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/data/obhistory/KEWR.html
If it originated in Manhattan, how would a wind out of the south blow it west into Jersey City? But what is south/southwest of both Manhattan and Jersey City? Lots and lots of petrochemical manufacturing plants. Google Earth places like Bayonne, Elizabeth, and Port Reading, NJ, along the water to the north and west of Staten Island. Anyone who has lived anywhere close to Houston's similar ship channel complex of petrochemical plants can tell of times when stinky but harmless smells from these plants would drift and linger over a large area of towns, especially in cloudy winter weather just like NYC is experiencing today.
I think "the authorities" track record leads to a lot of this.
Your explanation makes the most sense. Given the times we live in -- with NYC being number 1 terror target, the "authorities" here really should have had a handle on it early on.
Did you see the mayor?He barely had a handle on his temper.
The only terror attack we've received so far (9/11) was correctly identified as such pretty quickly. In contrast, the now inane "Nothing to see folks, move along" sarcastic post has been made 1,000 times on FR, and each times indeed it ended up being nothing. Yet no matter how many times these paranoid cynics' ignorant prognastications prove to be wrong, they still return each time to insist that if she floats, she must be a witch.
I just heard it on the news......now it's up to 60 dead birds.
1)Get out of the city.
2)Get out of the city.
3)Get out of the city.
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