| Author |
Message |
    
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2866
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: 
Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 01:34 pm: | 
|
Gas-Like Odor Spreads Through NYC:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070108/D8MHBUD80.html
Bird Deaths Shut Down Downtown Austin
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/08/D8MH9NVG1.html
Mystery as thousands of dead birds fall from sky:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21035741-2,00.html
|
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 7564
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 01:39 pm: |
|
Isn't this one of the first stages of the Christian Apocalypse? |
Urban_scribe
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 283
Registered: 05-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 01:46 pm: |
|
Yeah, Mzuri, I was caught-up in that shit y'day. I work right there; the whole publishing industry is in midtown Manhattan. I thought somebody brought collard greens to work. I had my plate all ready, but then the odor became overwhelming. It made me and a few of my co-workers gag. Then everyone ran out the bldg. 9-1-1- was flooded with calls, so no one could get through. Y'know, eversince 9/11 New Yorkers have become paranoid; maybe rightfully so. We thought we were being attacked (again) by chemical warfare.
DEP "assures" us that it was a harmless gas with a powerful odor that's mixed with gases that are odorless, so people who work with these odorless gases will know when there's a gas leak. Yeah, whatever. A lot of people didn't come into work today. I don't know if they're somewhere getting tested, scared to come back, or what. But it was really a frightening experience. |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6579
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 01:57 pm: |
|
Today, birds. Tomorrow, people! Are aliens polluting our air because their food supply is running out and hamburgers made from ground-up rotting asphyxiated human carcasses are a staple in their diets. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2867
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:05 pm: |
|
OMG US! It smelt like collard greens??? Poor you. I'd invite you to move to Texas but our birds are dying. Maybe we can all flee to Mexico if we have our passports and they'll let us in. Anyway, all jokes aside, this shit is scarey!!!
CyFreaque - As POTUS would say - I think it's the terrorishtsssts. They're experimenting with the birds and when they turn up the volume - we're next!
|
Chrishayden
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3338
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:21 pm: |
|
Mzuir:
Stop spreading panic. |
Urban_scribe
AALBC .com Platinum Poster
Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 284
Registered: 05-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:46 pm: |
|
It's interesting because Black folx are comparing the odor to rotten collard greens; White folx are comparing it to rotten cabbage. And I keep hearing Snoop Dogg "...gettin' funky on da mic like a ol' batch a collard greens."
To me, it's funny today, but it sure as hell wasn't funny y'day. You're right, dead birds, shit falling from the sky, and toxic fumes, none of which can be easily explained or convincingly explained away, is very, very scary. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2873
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 02:47 pm: |
|
N.J.'S P.U. RIPENS APPLE
By TOM LIDDY, DAN KADISON and ANDY GELLER
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01092007/news/regionalnews/n_j_s_p_u__ripens_apple_r egionalnews_tom_liddy__dan_kadison_and_andy_geller.htm
January 9, 2007 -- Who cut the cheese?
New Jersey, apparently.
Across the length and breadth of Manhattan, people were asking, "What's that smell?" after a pungent odor like natural gas or rotten eggs blanketed the borough and northern New Jersey for three hours yesterday morning.
By evening, the answer seemed to be a stinky gas emitted by a New Jersey swamp or marsh.
"That's where our noses and instruments tell us" the smell was coming from, said Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection.
The theory is within "the realm of possibility," said Stephen Jones, a spokesman for the New Jersey office of Emergency Management.
The odor, which sparked fears of terrorism, had people jamming 911 and Con Ed lines from Battery Park to Inwood from river to river.
"It was really, really bad, so bad it gave me a headache," said Kate Browne, who lives in the West Village.
Alfred Stewart, 47, who lives in Chelsea, agreed.
"That smell was stinking. It smelled, like, toxic," he said. "If you stayed in it and held it enough, you probably would have gotten dizzy from it."
The odor disrupted mass transit during rush hour and forced brief evacuations of Macy's in Herald Square, several area schools and some Midtown skyscrapers.
The FDNY responded to 409 calls about the odor - with many residents fearing they had a gas leak.
Twelve people in the city were taken to hospitals complaining of breathing problems, as were seven people in northern New Jersey.
People milled about outside evacuated buildings, asking: What is rotten in the City of New York? The answer seemed to be mercaptan, a gas that contains sulfur compounds and is added to natural gas so leaks can be identified.
Mercaptan also occurs naturally when matter decays in the swamps or marshes, such as those that exist on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
"We strongly believe the odor came from Jersey, somewhere from Secaucus to Jersey City," Sturcken said. "That's where the prevailing wind was coming from when the odor was strongest."
Jones said "it wouldn't be hard to believe" the smell originated there.
Sturcken said the odor could have come from a utility or pipeline leak, but a check of utilities turned up nothing.
That heightened the possibility that the Jersey swamps or marshes were to blame, he said.
"When we got the huge rain we got [yesterday] after a dry period, it would lead to a release of mercaptan from the swamps and marshes on the Jersey side," he explained.
The National Weather Service said that a warm front passed over the city between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., causing a temperature inversion. Such inversions can trap odors and prevent them from dissipating.
Mayor Bloomberg said there was no indication the air was unsafe to breathe. "It may just be an unpleasant smell," he said.
And then he uttered a memorable line that summed up the feelings of most New Yorkers: "We are waiting for the gas to pass."
Con Ed said that between 8 a.m. and 11 a.m., it received 700 calls.
Spokesman Chris Olert said checks showed there were no leaks in the system and sensors did not show an unusually high concentration of natural gas.
Public Service Electric & Gas, which serves northern New Jersey, said it received 900 calls from Jersey City north to Weehawken.
The FDNY said that from 8:49 a.m. to 10:47 a.m., it responded to 409 calls about the stench from Midtown to lower Manhattan.
Usually, the department gets 35 to 40 calls an hour in that area.
The stock market fell to its low for the day at 10:18 a.m. - 12,337 - as news of the stink hit the wires. It climbed back into the positive territory to close at 12,423.50.
The odor turned rush hour into a real headache. The 23rd Street station on the F line was closed for 24 minutes. PATH service from Hoboken and Journal Square to 33rd Street was suspended for an hour.
Norman Thomas HS at 33rd Street and Park Avenue and PS 11 at 320 W. 21st St. were briefly cleared out.
And Macy's in Herald Square briefly evacuated its employees before the store opened for business.
Samir Ahmed, 24, an advertising exec who lives on the Upper East Side, said he noticed the stink when he arrived at his office on Fifth Avenue and 46th Street at 8:45 a.m.
"Once I got here, I first smelled rotten eggs. It smelled like sulfur a little bit," Ahmed said. "I thought, at first, it was construction nearby - maybe they hit a line."
Then Ahmed received an e-mail from a friend that read, "Does all of New York smell like crap or is it just me?"
The advertising exec replied that "reports said it was coming from Jersey, so it may be that."
"But I hate to be a Jersey hater," Ahmed said. "Everybody assumes when they talk about smell or stench that it's wafting over from New Jersey."
Terrorism was quickly ruled out, but it was the first thing many New Yorkers thought of when they smelled that smell.
"When I first smelled the gas, I was concerned. When you smell gas, that's dangerous," said Roger Sanders, 60, a maintenance man for several West Village buildings.
"Then I heard they were smelling gas in Midtown. I thought it could be an act of terrorism. I can't see Macy's closing unless it was very, very serious."
|
Abm
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Abm
Post Number: 7574
Registered: 04-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 03:07 pm: |
|
U_S: "It's interesting because Black folx are comparing the odor to rotten collard greens; White folx are comparing it to rotten cabbage. And I keep hearing Snoop Dogg "...gettin' funky on da mic like a ol' batch a collard greens.""
Funny. I think of the end of the great JAMES BROWN song Make It Funky!!! were JB wax rhapsodically about the pleasure of consuming "neckbones!" "candied yams!" "COLLARD GREENS!" "Cracklin' bread!" "Turnips!" "Smothered snake (SMOTHERED SNAKE!!)!" "Grits-n-Gravy!"
It's probably a generational thing.
Hahahahaha!!! |
Cynique
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Cynique
Post Number: 6582
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 03:28 pm: |
|
Dying birds dropping from the sky. The smell of greens permeating the air. Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
Mzuri
"Cyniquian" Level Poster
Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 2915
Registered: 01-2006
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 10:16 pm: |
|
Dead birds rain down on towns half a world apart
Last updated at 22:00pm on 10th January 2007
It could be the plot of a horror film, but in two towns on opposite sides of the world the mysterious phenomenon of thousands of dead birds dropping out of the sky is all too real.
Officials are baffled by the unexplained deaths which have affected Australia and the U.S.
Three weeks ago thousands of crows, pigeons, wattles and honeyeaters fell out of the sky in Esperance, Western Australia.
Then last week dozens of grackles, sparrows and pigeons dropped dead on two streets in Austin, Texas.
As birds continue to die in Esperance and the town's dawn chorus remains eerily silent, vets in both countries have been unable to establish a cause of death - despite carrying out a large number of autopsies on the birds.
Wildlife officials from Western Australia's Department of Environment and Conservation said they were baffled by the "catastrophic event" but emphasised the deaths had nothing to do with a severe storm which recently struck the area, as the birds had started dying before then. District nature conservation coordinator Mike Fitzgerald said: "It's very substantial.
"We estimate several thousand birds are dead, although we don't have a clear number because of the large areas of bushland."
Birds Australia, the country's largest bird conservation group, said it had not heard of a similar occurrence.
"You'd have to call it a most unusual event and one that we'd all have to be concerned about," said chief executive Graeme Hamilton.
Dr Fiona Sunderman, chief veterinary officer of the Department of Agriculture and Food, suspects the cause of death is some form of toxic poisoning.
Esperance resident Michelle Crisp, who normally sees hundreds of birds roosting in her garden, counted 80 dead ones in one day.
"It went to the point where we had nothing, not a single bird," she said. "It was like a moonscape - just horrible."
In Texas, officials are also working on the toxic poisoning theory. Adolfo Valadez, medical director for Austin and Travis County Health and Human Services, said it might be weeks before any conclusive results were known.
Such was the concern that the birds suffered deliberate toxic poisoning that several streets were closed in Austin while police and fire crews checked the area for any substance that might be of harm to humans.
"This was a precautionary measure. We certainly take these kinds of thing seriously, especially following 9/11," said Mr Valadez. "It may be a matter of time before we know what happened and why it happened. There is no threat to public health."
Federal officials in Washington said they were monitoring the situation, but a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said: "There is no credible intelligence to suggest an imminent threat to the homeland or Austin at this time."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id =427997&in_page_id=1811
|
|
Email This Page