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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 910
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 12:18 pm: |    |
Last night, I awoke at 3 am to a pungent odor that permeated throughout my home. After a thorough inspection from attic to basement, nothing unusual was found. I stepped outside to see if anything was unusual, and noticed that the odor was very strong. I checked the front yard and back, but couldn't find anything to explain the smell. Concerned, I called Ferndale Police Department to ask if there had been any other reports of this odor. They said there wasn't, but they would send someone out to check the situation. After an hour's time, the odor dissipated and I was able to return to a fitful sleep. I will describe the smell as a cross between a vacuum cleaner belt burning, and throwing up in your mouth. Any other Ferndilians noticed this strange odor last night? |
Lilpup
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Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3036
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 12:28 pm: | |
Where in Ferndale do you live? There are some industrial places that could have vented something. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 911
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 1:34 pm: | |
9 and allen, lilpup. The air was completely still and very humid, so I don't think it came from the industrial area near Hilton. The smell was oddly unique and I would characterize it more as biological than chemical. |
Detroitrise
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Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 414
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 1:42 pm: | |
Maybe an animal or something (like a bird) got caught in your vents and died. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 912
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 5:36 pm: | |
I gave your idea some thought Detroitrise, but it turned up clean. The birds lost some habitat last week when we removed some vines from the house. The smell however, was in the still air outside. I wish I had a way to capture it. |
Sarge
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Username: Sarge
Post Number: 799
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 7:09 pm: | |
Gas leak? |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 455
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 03, 2007 - 7:46 pm: | |
So, it smelled like the Detroit incinerator on a cold day? Grody. |
Jrvass
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Username: Jrvass
Post Number: 290
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 3:04 am: | |
Bulletmagnet,
When was your last shower?  |
Redvetred
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Username: Redvetred
Post Number: 99
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 4:41 am: | |
How about sewer gas. We haven't had a real heavy rain so it's possible the sewer just burped on the composting Fall leaves which have fallen through the drains. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 914
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 5:49 pm: | |
I think I'll just forget this whole thing happened... |
Tayshaun22
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Username: Tayshaun22
Post Number: 379
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 1:01 am: | |
Dirty hippies? |
Chris_rohn
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Username: Chris_rohn
Post Number: 341
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 12:16 pm: | |
There has been a sewer gas smell throughout Ferndale the last few weeks. I have no idea what the reason is. I've lived there for 3 years now and this is the first time I've experienced it. |
Bulletmagnet
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Username: Bulletmagnet
Post Number: 917
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 5:25 pm: | |
Maybe it's the elections on Tuesday. You know how bad politicians’ B.S. can get |