Hey Larry...

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » January 8, 2007 10:21 am

What's going on there? I hear it's gettin' pretty nasty around 30 Rock.

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » January 8, 2007 10:22 am

Some of us just sent Larry a PM.

You do know what PMs are, don't you Frankie?

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 8, 2007 10:28 am

No problems here so far. There's supposed to be gas fumes but I don't smell anything. I did hear some of the lower floors in the building were evacuated.

My office mate told me her mother works near Penn Station, 15 blocks south of here, and her company sent everyone home.

Starting to hear a lot of sirens in midtown now.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 8, 2007 10:58 am

From the local NBC affiliate's website -
http://www.wnbc.com/news/10694568/detail.html

buffettbride · Post by **buffettbride** » January 8, 2007 10:59 am

i hope that everything will be OK.

((ny peoples))

bravedave · Post by **bravedave** » January 8, 2007 11:04 am

Last night was Beans and Beer Night in Weehauken and today the wind is blowing east.

Hang in there, NYC.

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » January 8, 2007 11:07 am

Collective abdominal distress from Giants & Jets fans???

txaggirl91 · Post by **txaggirl91** » January 8, 2007 11:38 am

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=5904817

related?

citcat · Post by **citcat** » January 8, 2007 1:16 pm

Probably one of the government acronym organizations doing a little 'test'.
I'm just saying........

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » January 8, 2007 11:47 pm

So there are a bunch of foul smells throughout N.Y.C.?

Sorry, Larry. You're not getting any sympathy from Iowa.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 9, 2007 12:45 am

Wino you know wrote:So there are a bunch of foul smells throughout N.Y.C.?

I never did smell anything today so I don't know how bad it was. I don't think it could have been as bad as a wet homeless guy on the subway after a rainstorm on a hot humid day in August.

Wino you know · Post by **Wino you know** » January 9, 2007 12:53 am

LIPH wrote:I never did smell anything today so I don't know how bad it was. I don't think it could have been as bad as a wet homeless guy on the subway after a rainstorm on a hot humid day in August.

COWS AND PIGS, SONNY! COWS & PIGS! HERE A COW, THERE A COW, EVERYWHERE A PIG PIG-THEY SMELL AWFUL.
(But they sure taste great coming off the grill).

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » January 9, 2007 1:02 am

LIPH wrote:
Wino you know wrote:So there are a bunch of foul smells throughout N.Y.C.?
I never did smell anything today so I don't know how bad it was. I don't think it could have been as bad as a wet homeless guy on the subway after a rainstorm on a hot humid day in August.

job41475 · Post by **job41475** » January 9, 2007 9:38 am

Soem of my friends with offices downtown smelled it pretty bad but I guess I picked a good day to be home sick....

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » January 9, 2007 10:47 am

Did they ever determine what is what?

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 9, 2007 10:52 am

I didn't watch the news last night and I didn't see a newspaper this morning so I don't know.

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » January 9, 2007 11:02 am

ToplessRideFL wrote:Did they ever determine what is what?

I was wondering that, too. Of course, when I Googled "NYC odor" I got 1.26 million hits. I'll withold comment, as I've never been.

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » January 9, 2007 11:05 am

I just saw this....NEW YORK - The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source — and eyeing New Jersey.

Charles Sturcken, a spokesman for the city Department of Environmental Protection, said Tuesday that his agency was pretty sure the source of the smell was along New Jersey's industrialized waterfront, just across the Hudson River from New York.

"The way we tracked the dispersion of the smell and the prevailing winds indicates that it came from New Jersey, somewhere near Secaucus," Sturcken said.

The strong odor, detectable from Manhattan's southern tip to well past Central Park, led to some precautionary evacuations, and about a dozen people were taken to hospitals complaining of difficulty breathing, Fire Department spokesman Tony Sclafani.

There was no indication that the air was unsafe, though, and no indication of terrorism, city and federal officials said.

"It may just be an unpleasant smell," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said at a midmorning news conference Monday.

Complaints about the odor also came from Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey, but no air sampling was done there because the state Department of Environmental Protection had no specific locations to test, spokeswoman Elaine Makatura said.

Sturcken said that the odor could have been caused by mercaptan, the chemical added to normally odorless natural gas to make it easily detectable, but he added, "Nothing has been confirmed."

"We're left with a mystery, although we know it's not harmful," he said.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » January 9, 2007 11:06 am

Well, they did say it was an odor of gas and everyone knows the official odor of NYC is stale urine.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » January 9, 2007 11:08 am

wrote:The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source — and eyeing New Jersey.

There's a surprise.

Kiss her where it stinks...take her to New Jersey.