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snerdaferda t1_j8xv6er wrote

This is all really strange, I can’t smell it at all and have no residue on my car or anything. I can’t tell if it’s real or mass hysteria.

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RhaenyrasUncle t1_j8xxcvy wrote

Hysteria.

Rain always smells weird this time of year because theres so much road salt everywhere. And the rain rehydrates the dissolved salt on our vehicles, leaving dark muddy spots, that people think are "acid rain".

That being said, things are much different in East Palestine, OH.

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[deleted] t1_j8y8hm2 wrote

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[deleted] t1_j8yaxk3 wrote

Plus this is reddit - I've seen several threads like "how worried should I be" and I don't even bother clicking because I'm sure it's nothing but "you and probably everyone you hold dear are already dead".

After the reaction to COVID here my "trust" in reddit has waned just a bit

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Significant_Shake_71 t1_j92d435 wrote

It’s mass hysteria. Apparently nothing has ever smelled weird before this. So if it does, it must mean it’s from Ohio 🙄

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UpsideMeh t1_j916yav wrote

I have residue on my car In metro west. Yesterday east coast was still being hit with Palestine Ohio air quality according to airnow.gov. Seems all clear now.

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snerdaferda t1_j919koz wrote

I don’t think we saw any of that from the NOAA maps and might I remind you that fire was over two weeks ago

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UpsideMeh t1_j91akwr wrote

I was definitely looking at old data then.

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FoodGuy44 OP t1_j8xxb0g wrote

Been near the Harbor since this morning. The smell is hard to miss IMO

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snerdaferda t1_j8xy4ab wrote

I mean the harbor always kind of has a smell. I will just chalk it up to the weather, it’s been like 60’F out the past couple days, and I’m no meteorologist but it’s probably some flavor of petrichor.

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tylerrific t1_j8xz4jh wrote

Cringe. "I can't sense something, so it must be MaSs hYsTEriA"

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snerdaferda t1_j8yavc5 wrote

I can smell something different so it must be a giant natural disaster and I’m going to get cancer and die

Edit: also it happened two weeks ago why do people think it got here today? Jesus.

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