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What gives natural gas its rotten-egg-like odor? In its purest state, natural gas is odorless, colorless and tasteless. A harmless chemical (the most common is mercaptan) is added to natural gas to make it smell and easier to detect. Many people describe the odor of this additive as similar to rotten eggs. In concentrated form, the smell of this odorant is almost unbearable, and it only takes a very small amount to give natural gas its telltale odor. Odorants do not affect the potency or effectiveness of natural gas.
Originally posted by lilmehere
reply to post by HIWATT
Perhaps I misunderstood you. (And I think I did.)
I thought you were saying 8415 was blown My fault.
8403 Fieldfare Way is the one that is leveled. 8409 is the one next to it, almost leveled.
Ugh. Horrific. I wonder if we will EVER get the truth.
My friend's co-worker was one of the ones whose home was destroyed. They have no clothes- her daughter needs uniforms for school tomorrow.
Originally posted by timetothink
reply to post by gnosticagnostic
I mentioned this earlier in the thread. Many agencies/positions on a local level now run under the umbrella of DHS.
Remember fusion centers?
A call to DHS could just have been a local investigator.
Originally posted by lilmehere
reply to post by ChaoticOrder
You know as much as we do. We have no idea what we are dealing with.
They have said they haven't detected any gas leaks, but aren't ruling it out.
Originally posted by HIWATT
If I can interrupt for a second.... I remember as a kid going to summer camp. Across the HWY was a long nature trail going down to a river... just off the road before the trail head was a railroad track and there was always a strong smell of rotten eggs in that area. I noticed there was a lot of what looked like spilled yellow piles of powder or a cake type substance.
My counsellor told me it was sulphur that spilled off the train. Raw sulphur is yellow/cakey looking and it did smell like rotten eggs.. soooo.....edit on 11-11-2012 by HIWATT because: spellin'
Originally posted by ChaoticOrder
can someone please sum up what we know so far.
Originally posted by lilmehere
reply to post by HIWATT
8415 was affected. You can see it in the pictures. The left side of the house is blown off.
I misunderstood- I thought you said that 8415 was the one LEVELED 8415 is next to the one that is just about leveled- 8409. 8403 is the one completely leveled.
I don't know my friend's CO-worker- ha!edit on 11-11-2012 by lilmehere because: