Submitted by Danadroid t3_114ipbv in newhampshire
Left the house for work this morning in Whitefield. Something in the air smells sweet and burnt. Wasn't just the immediate area, drove to dunks, still smelled it, got half way to Littleton before I couldn't smell it anymore. Whitefield is down in a valley, as soon as I got out of the valley it did not smell any more. Wondering if it was from the Ohio chemical cloud as it makes it's way into Canada...
Alot further north than you, but all is normal here.
interesting. So maybe not the toxic cloud. Whitefield is in a valley surrounded by mountains. Wondering if they just acted like a trap and the chemicals have begun to sink down and accumulate enough to produce a smell. We're supposed to get some rain. Wonder if it's worth collecting some of it and testing PH.
You should definitely do that. I was planning on doing the same.
Has everyone seen the latest air quality map?
I planned to put out a bucket and test the rain today. Saw some posts from MA yesterday with what looked like acid rain on a vehicle.
The more the feds stay quiet about this the more worried I get.
How the fuck did this get a downvote? Reddit is hilarious.
I just went outside again and it’s started raining and now it smells terrible at my house, smells like someone lit a couch on fire. It didn’t smell at 6 when I fed my goats. Now I’m wondering because it’s a very unusual smell for my area.
Are there any chemical factories near you? I've had times in my life driving around when there's a smell like that and I'm pretty sure it's some factory cleaning out whatever shit they need to burn off. (Probably illegally).
They might be timing it so everyone thinks its the ohio plume.
Benzene is sweet: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/benzene-poisoning
Hydrogen Sulfide is another: https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/contaminants/hydrogen-sulfide
Another article was about a coolant leak from a car. That can smell sweet. It could have been you were behind someone who had coolant on their engine, or your car was doing it (although you'd probably notice when you stopped).
I don't believe so, and the only other time I've smelled anything close to this was when I was in Iraq. That smell came from all the trash they were burning. Maybe you're on to something about timing and someone's burned some trash piles.
Yeah, check for a coolant leak. Either your radiator or hoses, or your heater core.
It most definitely was not my vehicle. My wife and I both smelled it soon as we opened the front door to leave today. We live in an apartment and my truck is on the other side of the parking lot. Also, people who passed through Whitefield to get to the same place I work said they smelled it on the way through as well.
Maybe everyone is having a stroke.
Pure conjecture, but my guess would be the Presby Plastics plant.
never thought of that! Might be right
Hey, so I just got back from dropping off my kids at school and I had a little fun with litmus paper.
Tap water has a pH of 7
White 5% vinegar had a pH of 3
My coffee had a pH of 6
The rain water has a pH of 5 - it kind of looks like six in the picture, but in my hand in person it looked more like a five.
looks like all is normal in your test then.
Yeah. I was under the incorrect impression until about 30 seconds ago that it was slightly more acidic than normal and I thought it was a good idea to check myself, apparently 5.5 is the norm.
I don't know but a couple days ago I smoked some burnt toast in the woods and I didn't see no toaster
Maybe a major structure fire?
Okay, which one of you farted?
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NASA has a U-2 taking air samples that is en route right now.
Sub seems to get a lot more traffic the last 6 months than it used to, and there's been a bit of a shift in personalities
Guess so. I mean, I have been guilty of being a troll at times, but this was a genuine answer to the question. Fuck it, it's Friday.
It was me
I'll say it. Massholes.
No stink in lancaster.
wow I actually see him on Flightradar24 right now
https://www.flightradar24.com/NASA806/2f3abec9
Looks like a lockheed ER2
Brain tumor? Did it smell like burning feathers?
I'm voting for the plastics plant that someone mentioned.
Smell a slightly burnt or very lightly sweet smell here in Concord, seems like people in Connecticut and Rhode Island is also noticing this so I doubt this is something local
Everyone should start calling state representatives. This is unacceptable.
no, and it would be a pretty big coincidence if my wife and I both have brain tumors this morning at the same time lol
Of course. I take it you didn’t see the movie Bandits with Billy BobThornton? Love his character in that movie.
Have not seen that one yet. Looks like one I'd enjoy though
I think it might be for the misspelling of “a lot”
Gee, thanks, Jake.
Sorry for answering your question, Arthur
Why are you sorry? I said thanks, now move a long.
Sorry I had chilli last night
The fuck is going on in Idaho 🙁
All smells normal in northern CT
lol, you might want to let NASA know. They are coming back around for another pass with a lockheed ER-2
Wth, that’s a bit weird.
right? no ones concerned yet Nasa has a jet in the sky who's purpose is to test the air quality, And it's flight path is the direction the wind would have taken the toxic cloud.
I would normally say fires, but I don’t think that could be the case with all the snowfall they’ve gotten and the temps
Can't tell if troll?
It has to do with the mountains! Poor air quality is pretty common over there and sometimes bad air gets trapped. I think it's called inversion or something like that.
Most likely someone somewhere in the area had a monster scorch-up in their kitchen. Or at one of the restaurants. You can get bubbles of trapped cooler air in the valleys and the warm that is coming in rides over the top and pushes everything down.. Groveton gets the same sort of Mystery Smells in the early fall.
I'm on in Portsmouth now, and for the last few days there's been a wandering burnt sweet soap smell which more often than not, is coming from the Schiller power plant. God save you when one of the kids fucks up a batch of coffee at the coffee roasters nearby, and burns it. It's Downwind Death.
When the thermals trap air bubbles, that is when things get really interesting as far as odors.
Yeah, all the car exhaust and wood stove smoke gets trapped by the inversion and chokes everyone out. It blows. It’s why SLC has some of the worst air quality in the country. The lake is forecast to be gone in less than five years because the morons keep growing alfalfa for export in the desert, and when that happens, it’ll be the worst in the world. It’s another Aral Sea disaster happening in real time before our eyes, but capitalism will get the new record time.
Surprising considering the other half by RI.
Have you seen the post on r/Connecticut yet?
The fact that this doesn't show any air quality disturbance from a burning chrmical train derailment in Ohio is........concerning.
What’s the point? We already know every water source is contaminated with PFAS. 500 miles away, a little chemical warfare agent isn’t gonna be noticeable in the chemical stew we’re all existing within.
Things are just starting to fall apart. It’s not gonna get better. It’s too far gone. Go do something fun this weekend instead. Memento mori.
Strafford, on the south slope of Blue Job mountain.
Recently noticed a faint acrid smell(like Chlorine-ish), and sinuses have been acting up the last 2-3 days. Hard to differentiate from when the upwind neighbor is using their pellet stove, and some of the smoke wafts into my house - except it's been warm-ish lately, and the neighbor only seems to use their stove "hard" when it's really cold.
Whatever it is, post-nasal drip and general sinus/allergic irritation is new.
Well now they both have upvotes friend
Why would I be trolling? Im serious.
Someone nod off while boiling sap?
It could be the super warm weather and thunderstorm that rolled through this morning.
Burnt and sweet? Sugaring season has begun
Which post? There's been 30 LMAO.
Some of this is normal. It's been dry and warm here, which means molds and other bits and bobs haven't been controlled this winter. Tie that in to the hysteria around the Ohio incident and "ZOMG it smells weird" turns into "oh yeah it DOES smell a bit like chlorine" etc.
The other contributing factor to this is CT and RI are dealing with fallout from a front that picked up dirt and dust in OK and is now depositing said dirt/dust here.
If I'm proven wrong I'll own it, but this smells like a lot of people exhausted from catastrophe after catastrophe and haven't had a chance to breathe.
What is unacceptable? He smelled a smell. No one knows what it is? Who are we complaining to? (https://imgur.com/gallery/91sn32Q)
Yup, I'd say 5.5 is within a reasonable deviation of normal.
Fair enough. Waiting for the EPA’s and NASA’s eventual announcement at this rate. Whole slew of potentially different causes.
Ohio has entered the chat
Is this not related to that plume from the ohio train crash?
The other thing that could be happening is people are getting in one more chance to burn before the snow is off the ground. There’s probably some asshole with a stack of tires under his big pile of brush. I was just out doing some errands and I drove by like a half dozen properties where someone was doing their yearly brush pile burn. Definitely some trash and tires got burnt today in the area around my house.
I’ve got kids that need to live on. I’ll keep trying.
Wow, how did you hear about this?
I know; I've been watching the purpleair site the past few days and the quality in California City, CA has been consistently at 910 and I've googled what on earth goes on in that town and haven't been able to find any answers.
I'm in littleton. My appartment building gets hot as hell so my windows been open all day and I've been outside twice with my dog I haven't noticed any smell
I’m on Dover and it currently smells odd outside. Smelled the same in somersworth and down on Dover point road. Almost a chlorine like smell.
Little late for that. Most likely coming from presbys. Seeing as it didn't smell when I drove thru there a little while ago, that would be a solid guess.
yea I haven't smelled it at all in Littleton today. It was mostly down in the valley around Whitefield. Soon as I got half way to Littleton I couldn't smell it anymore.
I think he's an air traffic controller.
I'm near Somerville, MA and it smells like chemical lawn fertilizer all morning. Weird and a little scary.
close your mouth......the smell will go away
Correct. Talked to this pilot earlier today at work.
Also, to be clear, this was NOT confirmed to be related to the Ohio cloud.
Just saw an article about CT having strange smells.
This map only shows fine particulate matter and ozone… it will not show anything related to toxic chemicals, and more specifically those released by the controlled burn in OH.
Found the masshole.
just remember.....if it weren't for MA, NH would all look like Aroostook County in ME
so take a seat, potato farmer
There's a post from a NH meteorologist from a few days ago in this sub stating it won't reach us up here
I too am Fartacus
For anyone wondering about where the Ohio chemicals drifted, here are some NOAA images of the spread.
Same shit happened to me when we moved to the mountains in Arizona. I thought it would be like my home state of Oregon lots of trees clean air, but the traffic from Phoenicians coming to see snow and our woodstoves made the air quality worse than Phoenix.
Might be better that way.
Sounds like your car has a coolant leak.
You said something reasonable and logical. A lot of Reddit hates that.
Potato farmer. Cute. It was a joke, not a dick. Don't take it so hard
ok, drooler
Lolol. Sounding smarter by the minute.
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That’s not hard to do with someone from NH
Keep it going bud. You got nothing, broke ass democrat
lol…….I’m not the one stuck in NH
It looks like air quality starts getting bad north of Salt Lake City into Idaho, I wonder if this is from the receding lake bed in salt lake spreading pollutants. I can’t believe there is nothing near Ohio…
I get inversions where I live and the air quality still isn’t that bad. It looks like it starts at salt lake, I wonder if this is from the receding shore line and the toxic dust
The receding lake is its own environmental disaster, both the toxins are being concentrated as water evaporates as well as the dust plumes
Who's stuck. You are providing the irony of internet idiots like yourself. I moved here because I am financially set for life. Can't stand to be around donkeys like you in mass. So I left.
Sure…..NH is where people go when they are ‘set for life’
Lol… you’re full of shit…..internet ‘rich guy’
They are not far from the Aliso canyon oil field
Conveniently the cabs that were “empty” had benzene, it could very well be in the spill too
Tell yourself what you want to.
Do they do this often?
It’s there now - big yellow dot - and headed straight for NYC!
Southern NH and I paid very close attention. Smelled like the neighborhood skunk again.
I’m in Concord and had black raindrops all over my car this morning as did several of my friends. I just went through the car wash so I know it’s not dirt.
There is an important thing to mention here. A lot of people are smelling things or seeing a brown film on their car all over the Northeast. Then they are getting on Reddit and asking, presumably because there is little about environmental disaster from the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in Ohio .
There is nothing much in the major media about the rail disaster in Ohio because the biggest shareholders of Norfolk Southern Railroad are also the biggest shareholders of MSNBC CNN Fox CBS ABC.
This video has the details, but if you have the time you could also verify this for yourself.
It’s happening in CT today, we suspect Ohio.
I just looked it up and they aren't but Santa Clarita and Lancaster are closer and their numbers have always been nice and green. Maybe just the way the wind blows and settles?
I need to get off that site; it's not good for my head.
This comment should be higher
Braintree storage facility for hazmat stuff caught on fire last night. Clean Harbors is the company name.
This thread is literally an exercise in confirmation bias. It’s happening in every state “downwind” of the derailment. Shit I’ve seen people in like Arkansas, Florida and the Carolina’s “experiencing” these same exact phenomena when the weather pattern out of Ohio wouldn’t have brought any potential pollutants anywhere near them. You can see it in the comments here. People from the same town, one person says they smell something odd and have “residue” on their car and another person in the same town not having the same observation. I’d only be concerned if there was a consensus from every single person along a definable path that directly correlates with the weather pattern.
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Probably just Lufkins burning shit again
Smelling it here in SENH rn
The world is so fucked, I want to be aware but I have no idea how to combat this
I remember him, I was unfortunately duped.
It's that shit cloud from Ohio.
I like the way you think
It was bad chili
It absolutely would be better that way
my Grandpa had a “camp” in Goffstown back when we were kids. Frickin cul-de-sac now
Yeah, I’ve never seen black pollen before.
It is, but people are rightfully concerned. There's not much clear info on the fallout of this thing. Obviously you can't hold your breath for a few days, but if you had reason to believe the chemicals were blowing over your area, you might decide to hang out indoors most of the day vs go hiking.
Idk if that's sarcasm or if black pollen's a thing. But I haven't seen it. And I lived in Burlington for about six years.
People in the immediate vicinity of the derailment absolutely have a right to be concerned. Once you get you outside of a 10-15 mile radius being cautious and testing your ground water isn’t the worst idea. Outside of 50-100 miles from the site you’re just hiding in fear of nothing. This isn’t the first train derailment of vinyl chloride, and there’s been a decade of research studying the last major accident where a train dumped 18,000 gallons of it into a local water supply. We also know how the compound carries through studies of the vapor cloud created by the last incident. It’s heavier than water when burned, and the rough estimate of the plume was about 1KM in altitude. Meaning it wouldn’t “seed” a rain cloud and then make its way out of the region. It can absolutely mix with lower atmosphere and be dispersed in a small radius, even up to 100 miles. The big health concern is that in moderate PPM of drinking water it can cause liver cancer. Again, the immediate burn radius everyone should be concerned, in the larger radius of up to 100 miles, people should be testing their ground water. 500+ miles away people aren’t smelling the vinyl chloride, and there certainly isn’t a concentration high enough to be concerned about. On top of all that, even if the compound could seed clouds and move with the weather and rain the accident was now two weeks ago. Whatever weather system was in central Ohio at the time would have moved through the northeast 2-3 days(max) after the incident. People are only reporting these “observations” in the last couple days as the echo chamber grows louder.
> right to be concerned
Are you saying people outside of it have "no right" to be concerned?
Free country, you have the “right” to feel however you please. Wether or not it’s reasonable is a completely different story lol
Why would it be unreasonable for them to be concerned for their health and safety?
Because there was nothing rational about it. Why weren’t they concerned 2-3 days after the incident when, if the compound was able to be carried by weather patterns long distance, it would have been in the north east. We know what the compound is, we know what is created after a combustion reaction. The resulting “fallout” isn’t reaching New England, let alone 14 days later.
It's so depressing. There are about 1,000 things to be upset about just from the East Palestine situation alone.
Not to mention entire towns have been poisoned before, this will keep happening
This makes me feel better, thank you. I’m in Maine and was really concerned about the rain today
What a bunch of cunts!
Between industry, electrical plants, and all the highway traffic? Seacoast NH has pretty crappy air quality most of the time.
Someone put some damn plastic in the frikken wood-stove again.
Thought you said Blow Job mountain. 🤔
Maybe it's the Palestine toxic smoke plume from the train wreck. It is heading north east. Who knows maybe there's a trace of it in the air
Probably because they didn't know about it.
The story wasn't given that much attention by MSM. It took a week or so of enough people talking about it online to bring it to people's attention.
And what do you mean there's nothing rational about people being concerned for their health and safety? It's one thing to explain to people why you don't think they should worry, it's another to try and shoot them down for asking questions.
Every time I say it, I think "Blue Balls mountain". :-D
I like yours as well, though.
That’s the problem though. 90% of people aren’t asking questions. They’re immediately going into panic after doom swiping on TikTok and Twitter. I still don’t agree with this narrative that there’s been no coverage of this or it’s been hidden for some nefarious reason. I heard about it the day it happened and I’ve seen articles about it nonstop. Admittedly that’s a subjective point of view since everyone’s data and algorithms for content consumption is different but atleast for me I’ve had news of it out infront of me since the incident. Social media causes people to act and feel without objective thought. Why would this be covered up by main stream media? Everyone says they’re “liberal” mouthpieces. This derailment is the outcome of regulations put in place after the same chemical was spilled in New Jersey in 2012 and then repealed by a GOP senate in 2017. You don’t think the “liberal” media wouldn’t have immediately jumped on a chance to hammer the last administration? The fact that this panic is setting in 2 weeks later is proof. People claiming that they’re seeing/smelling/experiences of “fallout” in a weather pattern shifting from the location of an environmental catastrophe that happened two weeks ago is like saying “everyone stay safe there’s a storm that spawned devastating tornados in Ohio two weeks ago, and it’s headed our way” Everyone, for the most part understands how quickly the jet stream pushes weather patterns across the country, so alerting people of severe incoming weather from 14 days ago would cause most people to scoff at it as irrational. Introduce a a moderately unknown variable and everyone panics, instead of asking reasonable questions or taking a second to analyze the situation objectively.
CT had similar issues: https://www.wfsb.com/2023/02/17/questions-raised-over-mysterious-soot-like-residue-that-accumulated-vehicles/
Their news and meteorologists are saying it's very unlikely to be from the train derailment (would've passed us already) and is modt likely dust/dirt from dust storms in Texas and Oklahoma. Apparently, these types of storms push a lot of junk high into the atmosphere, and it takes a while to float back down- which could explain why it got all the way to NH.
Negative. They do not do this often.
Could be that toxic cloud from Ohio, thank Bidens EPA for that one, Obama couldn't have asked for a better scenario than what this jackass is doing.
woolsocksandsandals t1_j8wakeb wrote
I saw a plume model that put the “fall out” over us about a week ago.
Edit: I should also mention that as I recall the concentrations of pollutants that were in the atmosphere above us were very small.