Posted on 02/14/2008 12:38:13 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
BEDFORD, Ind. -- A rank, rotten-eggs-like smell was permeating parts of southern Indiana Thursday, prompting calls to authorities and leading state officials to investigate.
The source of the smell wasn't known and may never be found, Lawrence County Emergency Services Director Valerie Luchauer said. One possibility is that it's a leaking tank of odorizer that is commonly applied to natural gas lines to alert people to leaks.
No reports of health problems were made.
Luchauer said the wind appeared to be spreading the smell northward. The first reports about the smell came from Orange, Lawrence and Bedford counties Thursday morning.
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management was attempting to find the source.
Where’s the Huckabee campaign these days?
I suspect it’s the rotting carcass of America. The very soil of the nation itself is rejecting Obama, Hillary and McCain . . .
It’s the Chem trails.
I have switched to a high fiber diet.
Oops! sorry, that was me. Those truck stop hot wings do it every time.
Hydrogen sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula H2S. This colorless, toxic and flammable gas is responsible for the foul odour of rotten eggs and flatulence.
It often results from the bacterial break down of organic matter in the absence of oxygen, such as in swamps and sewers (anaerobic digestion). It also occurs in volcanic gases, natural gas and some well waters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
Isn’t that the smell you sometimes get before an earthquake?
Did Hillary leave one of her pantsuits in Indiana?
Look for an empty fart bomb warehouse.
Well, before a movement at the least.
(Terre Haute had a pretty bad odor problem for a few decades, and most blamed it on some local factories... paper factories, IIRC)
Look for oil reserves.
Arising perhaps from Kelvin Sampson’s cell phone?
There's a smell before an earthquake?
We had to open all the windows and leave the building for a while.
Besides being one of the most disgusting odored gas, it is poisonous in amounts of 700-800 ppm. By the time it reaches that concentration, you will probably gag to death from the overwhelming smell.
Although methane is the main ingredient in flatulence, it is the H2S that gives it it's "character".
There were reports of mystery lights in the sky early in Indiana this morning and some say a crash of some sort. It was rumored that the crash site was found and that a tin soldier was found inside, dead, clutching a stone, on the bottom it read “Don’t vote for McCain, planet MK-12 urges you to come to your senses”
“Well, before a movement at the least.”
LOL!!
http://www.examiner.com/a-1220871~Strange_smell_stinks_up_southern_Indiana.html
The odor appeared to be dissipating in Lawrence County by 10:30 a.m., but was spreading northward, with reports coming in from Morgan County, Luchauer said.
“It is following the wind patterns and rolling right through Indiana. IDEM is still trying to track the source, but it may be like finding a needle in a haystack as it is a moving odor,” she said.
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