Strange Odors Reported Across DC

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<br><br> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts139.html">Methyl Mercaptan</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> is the substance added to natural (oderless) gas to make it detectable by the average person.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[nomo]

We had something like that recently in my neighbhorhood in June. Several of my neighbors smelled something weird and each called FDNY and Keyspan independently. FDNY didn't notice anything but the Keyspan inspector said it was probably trapped sewer gas. His theory was that after a couple of weeks of very hot weather and no rain to flush the<br>sewers, the temps suddenly dropped 20 degrees, the air got heavier and it displaced the trapped gas in the sewers.<br><br>DC got the same cold snap we did yesterday.<br><br> <p>--<br>When all else fails... panic.</p><i></i>

[ZeroHaven]

After reading bits of these articles they all sound like people describing similar smells in their own way. This is what I know according to my college chemistry classes:<br><br>Toluene, aka Methyl Benzene is used as an industrial solvent. It has a slightly acidic (cat box?) smell that is most commonly called "locker room odor". Very small (safe) quantities of it are generated in neglected laundry baskets due to decomposition of phenols in human sweat.<br><br>Hopefully that's not what it is, because it could become quite dangerous inside a sewer system.<br><br>Technical Fact Sheet: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.hess.com/ehs/msds/Toluene_1813_clr.pdf">www.hess.com/ehs/msds/Tol...13_clr.pdf</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

I heard somehing on NPR this morning about a huge chlorine leak in New Jersey, a big "plume" in the air. One of the highways has been shut down, residents asked to close their windows. <br><br>Right, either we have just collectively put the focus on something that goes on every day, or this is on an upswing for some reason. Smells fishy. (Sorry, bad pun) <br><br>How did DeLillo term it in <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>White Noise</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->? A "Toxic Event"? <br><br>Ah, just found mention in the NYT: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/nyregion/30cnd-chemical.html">www.nytimes.com/2005/09/3...mical.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <br><br>New Jersey Chemical Leak Disrupts Morning Commute <br>By JOHN HOLL<br>Published: September 30, 2005<br><br>JERSEY CITY, Sept. 30 - A chemical leak at a swimming pool chemical plant in Kearny, N.J., this morning snarled the morning commute by closing the Pulaski Skyway and had local officials warning of potential health risks to residents with respiratory problems....<br><br>The leak occurred around 8:30 a.m. when about 1,000 pounds of trichloroisocyanuric acid, a chlorinating agent and disinfectant used in swimming pools, began to decompose sending a plume of gas into the air, said Elaine Makatura, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Homeless Halo]

Schools in Saline Michigan, while not reporting any odors, per se, have sent students home for three days complaining of sickness. Two of these days, they evacuated the schools. Multiple hazmat crews find no signs of contamination, yet sicknesses continue...<br><br>Its about the only thing on the news here for the last couple days.<br><br>(Although, there is a gas smell in several neighborhoods. I'd discussed it with friends last night. I thought it was our furnace, since it got cold and we just turned it back on. That was, until I realized it was stronger outside)<br><br>You guys can make someone paranoid, y'know.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

Speaking as someone who used to drive a LNG vahicle as a cab- if the gas companies switched to cinnamon as a tracer odor, I think LNG would be a lot more popular consumer choice. <p></p><i></i>

[Avalon]

No, I know the smell of that from our gas range. Wasn't that.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[ewastud]

It is probably emanating from Dick Cheney, but with so many blowhards in DC it cn be hard to tell. Check out this website:<br> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.flatulenttechnologies.com/">www.flatulenttechnologies.com</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>and this page in particular about the country's "windiest cities":<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://home.hawaii.rr.com/thildebrand/FlatulentTech/prodserv.html">home.hawaii.rr.com/thildebrand/FlatulentTech/prodserv.html</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br>(I confess: This is a parody website I created to mock companies like Enron.) <p></p><i></i>

[Col Quisp]

I've noticed a change in the chemtrails around here this week. Instead of leaving long plumes, the trails dissipate soon after they are released. <br><br>They are definitely not contrails -- not normal jets. Sometimes there are two or three of them in close proximity. The oddest one was at sundown the other day. Its trail broke up into shimmering pieces and then disappeared. <br><br>Are they spraying new chemicals? Could this be causing a smell? Haven't noticed any new bad odors. But there is always a bad odor from sewers here in summer months. (poor infrastructure). Just wondered if anyone else has noticed a change in their local chemtrails. <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Somebody probably set up a cloudbuster/chembuster in your area. Copl. That's how they work.<br><br>We have another theory about these smells... I'll let Dragon write about it. I have a gig to go to... --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[emad]

All those post-9/11 gas masks about to come in useful. <p></p><i></i>

[rocco322]

I have also been noticing a extraordinary amount of small jets flying overhead starting in the early evening and ending about 10:00 PM. I live in an area of Orange County, Ca. where there is normally no flight pattern over my house. I occasionally see a jet fly over, but it is travelling way higher than these smaller jets I've been seeing the past two weeks.<br><br> In response to the strange smells.... Sorcha Faal has her own conclusions. If any of you have been following her dire revelations, you'd have to admit she has been stunningly accurate... <br><br>In any case, here's the link...<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index735.htm">www.whatdoesitmean.com/index735.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[rapt]

For the specific story on outgassing due to continental plate fracturing, go to index830. instead of 735 in the whatdoesitmean site. <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...in Menlo Park, CA (due north of Stanford University) last night about midnight--sulfur smell, definitely. <p></p><i></i>

[thumperton]

this might be another exercise in population control, especially with all those war protests, since we know Al CIAeda has a habit of attacking at the very worst times (i.e. eve of troop withdrawl, poll numbers dropping, etc.). <p></p><i></i>