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Brraaap t1_jdoudpw wrote

That's weird that it hasn't made the news yet

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FiziKx t1_jdowlbb wrote

It’s been like this for hours. It’s strong in Spring Garden/Fairmount/North Philly, too.

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OneToughFemale t1_jdox781 wrote

There was just some chemical spill into a lake somewhere in Pa. Maybe Bucks County

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quieromofongo t1_jdoxz2e wrote

I’ve been smelling it for a few days. Smells like burning metal. Like when someone is welding or soldering.

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wyueprouqi t1_jdoyqo4 wrote

Oh good, I thought I was having a stroke. Smells like burning in Gray's Ferry.

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sjkyle5 t1_jdoz9k7 wrote

Can smell it down in south Philly broad and porter

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mazerati185 t1_jdozjyv wrote

I thought it smelled like finger paints from schooldays lol this was in fairmount near the target

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puddin__ t1_jdp09dj wrote

I can’t find any info. It’s been for hours.

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tgalen t1_jdp0zlw wrote

I thought it smelled like strong chlorine

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Uniball38 t1_jdp1hc0 wrote

It’s probably just that inversion thing again

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casp514 t1_jdp22qu wrote

Idk but there was a very distinct watercolor paint smell in Brewerytown when I got home at like 6 today

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WiseRelationship7316 t1_jdp33fj wrote

Replying to scuddlebud (#2,363,041)

Piggybacking this to say: The newly selected Chief Counsel for the PA DEP (EPA) is the wife of the former republican chairman for the state. A republican latina who has a spotty agenda on the environment, who’s friendly with Gov Shapiro and placed in a role that she has no background for… I’m not sure why the Philadelphia Inquire has not looked into this selection. She was very quiet about her appointment. We’ve now left the legal agenda of the environment in the hands of an unqualified person who doesn’t likely believe in climate change. We’re going to see more of this go unchecked.

Also critically important, why is a democratic governor appointing republican leaders for the environment in PA? I know I did not vote blue for this.

The DiGiorgio’s are historically riddled in scandals.

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12kdaysinthefire t1_jdp4siq wrote

It’s inversion. All the pollutants that normally ascend higher up into the atmosphere are currently trapped underneath this cloud layer, at ground level. This usually happens during the colder months, at least once a year. Sometimes it smells like burning or melting plastic, sometimes like a sweet perfume, just depends on which industries you live nearby and down wind from.

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andreach16 t1_jdp4wm2 wrote

In point breeze smells like glue or strong paint, I thought it was from some of the constructions. My dog doesn’t go out because of it.

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omgahya t1_jdp5095 wrote

Crazy, I had my window cracked open and was driving behind a UHaul and just assumed the smell was coming from that. From U City to South Philly that’s all I smelled. Like burning/spilled coolant.

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passing-stranger t1_jdp5xg0 wrote

Thought the air smelled like paint in port richmond. I went inside because of it. It's overwhelming

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stefdistef t1_jdp62nb wrote

I was also concerned because it smells like...... clean?

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FeedMe16 t1_jdp6ygc wrote

Idk how far smell travels but could it be from the factory exploding in Reading yesterday?

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LocalOnThe8s OP t1_jdp7v3n wrote

how the fuck do you accidentally spill shit into the waterways? you would think they would have some kind of safeguard against this. i feel bad using toilet bowl cleaner that goes into a septic system. dow gets to dump 12k gallons of latex bullshit into the river. you cant even stock trout in the neshaminy because its so bad.

edit: this spill happened at the old rohm and haas, where there is a giant park on the river bank that is now closed down because its one giant fucked superfund site. i can imagine it used to be much worse when theyd dump this shit on purpose to dispose of it.

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tbizzles t1_jdp86tq wrote

Ohhh ohhhh that smell. Cantcha smell that smell?

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_SundaeDriver t1_jdp92tr wrote

I smelled it driving through the city earlier and I can smell it now at home in Lansdowne.

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Totalnah t1_jdpat00 wrote

Replying to datneckbearddoe (#2,362,912)

“The U.S. Coast Guard has command on the cleanup operation and has told LevittownNow.com at least 8,100 gallons of latex finishing material spilled into the waterway. They said the water soluble acrylic polymer solution had a maximum potential release of 12,000 gallons, with a final determination being worked on.”

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puddin__ t1_jdpezun wrote

On another group I’m in, someone called Called Air Quality Management. Seems like they need more people to call in order for them to actually care.

215-685-7580; 215-686-4516 after hours.

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ObligatoryGrowlithe t1_jdpf58s wrote

I have Bell’s Palsy. I need these threads to make sure I don’t get poisoned haha.

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will-you- t1_jdpibfa wrote

Thought it was the neighbor running ozone machines after his basement flooding. Traveling to the next neighborhood proved that theory wrong. Can’t be good; Fuck.

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1moreRobot t1_jdpimmd wrote

It must have gotten sucked into the ventilation system at the Kimmel Center, because we could smell it during the orchestra concert tonight. Sort of smelled like a struck match to me.

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watekebb t1_jdpttmz wrote

Replying to casp514 (#2,363,052)

I was trying to put my finger on what the odor reminded me of earlier this afternoon— knew it was some like hyper specific scent memory, but couldn’t place it. Been driving me crazy (though better to focus on that than think too much about how our brain cells are doing after marinating in this all day).

Your comment finally brought it to the surface for me: the utility sink in my middle school art classroom. Base notes of knockoff Crayola tempera and acrylic paint— the water-based, washable kinds that come in bulk bottles— spattered in various stages from watered down to wet to drying to caked on. Heart notes of hard water, cheap brown paper hand towels, and damp paintbrushes that have never once gotten the chance to fully dry. Top notes of heated plastic (from rinsing the plastic cups we used to mix paint with that scalding-ass water) and that kinda pearlescent pink antibacterial liquid hand soap. Somewhere, a trace of Elmer’s glue and a whiff of chlorine.

My SO said it reminded him of opening a box full of inflatable beach balls.

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Tall_0rder t1_jdptx1u wrote

Was wondering if it was just imagining that. Spells kinda ozone-y.

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pleeplious t1_jdpvcc2 wrote

12,000 gallons is a drop in the bucket. That can’t be it.

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BureaucraticHotboi t1_jdpw6i5 wrote

Replying to LocalOnThe8s (#2,363,654)

Remember when the gas storage field exploded in south Philly and released poisonous gas that only by the grace of god was blown out over the Atlantic. We were one stagnant day away from half of south Philly being seriously ill or dead

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cazzhmir t1_jdq0rnf wrote

Replying to Totalnah (#2,363,976)

oopsie doopsie i accidentally dropped 8 thousand fucking gallons of a toxic chemical into one of the largest rivers on the eastern seaboard

some people should not be in charge of anything

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Dryheavemorning t1_jdqg57e wrote

Replying to HistoricalChicken (#2,367,508)

There's been nothing in any of the news stories about that spill indicating it caused the smell. The spill site was to the east of us and the prevailing winds would have taken it to NJ. The smell was definitely something funky but in all likelihood came from the west. My guess is just the normal terrible pollution from the Midwest but we got a better smell of it because of an inversion.

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KatherineHennesy t1_jdqyto5 wrote

Replying to Shagggadooo (#2,364,318)

We were driving down I95 and thought our car’s electrical system was on fire. Parked the car In center city and smelled it and thought “o crap” its our car. Then the smell lingered everywhere and was relived 😅

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Positive-Pin3712 t1_jdr0vmu wrote

I’m in tacony and last week there was a similar smell and it was so strong we could smell it both outside and then through the downstairs of the house, I thought someone was cooking/mixing drugs or smoking them, it was nauseating.

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Bakirocky t1_jdr2ufk wrote

I smelled it inside the house. I thought I was going crazy.

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VanDammeJamBand t1_jdr5yym wrote

Replying to LocalOnThe8s (#2,363,654)

Reminds me of a few years ago when the whole city smelled like sulfur one night. Turned out a plant in NJ had released a ton of some chemical into the air that was JUST TECHNICALLY within legal parameters. Kinda blew my mind then that that was perfectly legal, and it was at least (in my understanding) less hazardous than this current situation.

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jengibredia t1_jdrber2 wrote

Replying to cazzhmir (#2,366,658)

They do it on purpose. It's their disposal plan. To "accidentally" spill it and make it everyone else's problem. Yes, these people should not be allowed to exist in our society. They are destroying the world for profit.

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Plutopowered t1_jdrmsve wrote

It looks like there is now a boil water advisory

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BitchIsShadyAf t1_jdswkgq wrote

Reading this thread after the contamination advisory is kind of crazy

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veganjam t1_jdsz96k wrote

I smelled something like pool chemicals this morning when I made a stop in cherry hill

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TheNightmareOfHair t1_jdvgc24 wrote

Replying to jengibredia (#2,372,363)

Update: The spill made Democracy Now's 15-minute world news report -- as did the chocolate factory explosion that killed 7 in Reading. They also ran a segment later on (it's a 1-hour podcast total) about how a quarter of humanity lacks access to clean drinking water. I'm guessing this was the only (non local) daily news roundup to address any of this. Certainly did not make NPR's Up First, NYT's The Daily, BBC Global News Podcast, or WSJ's What's News.

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murphysfriend t1_jdwq3ox wrote

Ooh that smell, Can't you smell that smell, Ooh that smell. The smell of that smell.

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