MSNBC TV : Gas Odor comming from Manhattan somewhere

[redirish28]

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From Battery Park to Mid town Manhattan.

[maddezmom]

1. redirish28 here's a link, please add to your OP

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4914449

Bloomberg is going to hold a new conference shortly

[maddezmom]

12. another link: Mystery gas-like smell wafts over NYC

mysterious gas-like odor wafted over Manhattan from Union Square to the Upper West Side Monday, leaving emergency workers scrambling to determine a cause.

Reports of the smell began around 9 a.m. from as far south as Chelsea and east to Union Square and all the way through the West 80s on the Upper West Side.

The smell was reportedly particularly strong in the Herald Square area.

Investigators at the Office of Emergency Management said they were aware of the smell and were working to determine a cause.

"We have numerous calls and reports about a gas leak from midtown to downtown, river-to-river but we don't have any locations or any injuries reported," an OEM spokesman said.

He said there was no immediate threat to public safety.

more:http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-gas0109,0,6285639.story?track=rss

[maddezmom]

18. PATH shut down due to gas smell

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MDYmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwNTQyODImeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky

[krispos42]

40. 'No immediate threat to public safety"

A gas leak covering midtown to downtown, river-to-river, and there is no 'immediate' threat?

It's called a fuel-air explosive. The military uses it a lot.


Perhaps a more-to-scale visual aid would be in order.

[AllexxisF1]

26. Strange

Con Ed is reporting that they have no leaks within the system. The smell isn't sulfur'ish is it? (puts on super tin foil hat) underground super volcano! OH TEH NOES!

[Stevepol]

2. Does Bill O'Reilly broadcast from NY? If so, is it in that area?

[Doctor_J]

3. Aren't the EIB studios there?

there's your source

[maddezmom]

4. since this could be serious...I probably shouldn't

but I am :rofl: at that one. :hi:

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. They smelled natural gas

before the WTC attack too.

I hope this turns out to be no big deal.

[peacetalksforall]

8. I never heard that - can you elaborate? Was it in the area of

the WTC? I watched tv pretty intently - I can't remember that?

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. That was why one of the Naudet brothers

was outside filming the FDNY, when he filmed the first plane hitting WTC1. They were out checking out a report about a natural gas leak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Naudet_and_Gedeon_Naudet

[bigworld]

17. It happens all the time

usually just in a small area, though. Anywhere where you have gas this is common.

It's uncommon, however, to waft over such a large area.

[closeupready]

15. First I've heard that one, and I live here.

n/t

[Karenca]

27. I live just a few blocks from the source of the leak.

I can't smell it.

[HereSince1628]

25. Isn't nat. gas oderless? Isn't an odor added to it to make leaks detectable

with your nose? Or is that an urban myth?

[BadgerKid]

30. Yep. Methanethiol (sulfurous compound)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanethiol

[KurtNYC]

31. yes - they put the odor in because natural gas has very little odor

It may not be natural gas -- could be just the additive. And I have smelled mosquito spray that smells similar to the additive.

I'm at 86th/bwy and I don't smell anything but rain.

[Eurobabe]

6. Is Bush around? He likes to fart

[hippiechick]

28. My thought exactly!

:applause:

[soleft]

7. I'm downtown Manhattan - don't smell anything but someone

in my office smelled it coming in

Air still seems to be circulating in building.

[peacetalksforall]

13. How strong is the wind? Seems no one is reporting from NJ.

Some reporters are saying it's coming from Jersey City.

[slackmaster]

9. Wasn't there a big chili cookoff this weekend?

:nuke:

[Beetwasher]

10. I Didn't Smell Anything, I'm in Midtown and Just Got In

n/t

[war on errorism]

14. i smelled it strongly in Trenton, NJ this morning...

quite a distance from NYC.

[closeupready]

11. It's probably just a leak somewhere.

Since natural gas has no odor.

[bigworld]

19. raw out of the ground it has no odor.

The gas companies put in the odor which we're used to before it goes into the pipes.

[closeupready]

22. right that's what I mean

in other words, it's undoubtedly just a leak somewhere. if this were like Chicago and the chocolate odor you sometimes would smell downtown, i'm sure nobody would be complaining. :D

[Beetwasher]

20. Just Reported It May Be A Gas Main Leak In Chelsea, PATH Shut Down

Macy's evacuated.

[maddezmom]

24. Mayor's spokesperson said officials told her Chelsea...link

The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified.

Across the Hudson River, Jersey City, N.J., mayor's spokeswoman Maria Pignataro said officials there were told the odor was due to a gas leak in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, just north of Greenwich Village.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4914557

[hedgehog]

21. Could this be related to the Maple syrup odor that was reported

in NYC last fall? Maybe there were always strange odors in the city but they were ignored until the fear of a terrorist attack put everyone on edge.

[originalpckelly]

23. Damn! How'd you all smell that all the way over in NY?!?

Sorry.

[PCIntern]

29. It was the Giants and the Jets

"Stinkin' up the joint".

[Ouabache]

32. the Knicks started playing in November so it has gotten worse

from that too...

[maddezmom]

33. Bloomberg holding a press conference now

[PCIntern]

34. Amazing how these guys can talk for hours and say nothing...

remarkable.

It's a gift.

[mikelgb]

35. any updates?

[Beetwasher]

36. The Odor Is Gone

That's not from the news, that's from personal experience, I'm in Midtown. Whatever it was has passed.

[Roland99]

37. Must be the stink of Petrino wafting up to the NE.

damn greedy bastard.



Either that or the White Castles and beer I had last night.......

[Julius Civitatus]

38. Many buildings evacuated in my way to work in Midtown

Very strange. Crowds of people huddled by the entrances of their office buildings, under the rain. Strange sight.

[SlowDownFast]

39. Air America office in NYC was evacuated this morning

according to Al Frankin just a minute ago...