Gas leak in Manhattan and NJ

UGH did anyone hear about this gas leak. ITs all over the city, well mostly mid-town and downtown and jersey city...They have evacuated buildings, schools, have suspended path train service(which is what i takeGRRRRR)...they say there might be explosions downtown...There are fire trucks, police, emergency trucks surrounding my building. this is scary

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16524813/

I have Fox News on right now. No explosions... they say it's a gas line on 10th & Bleeker. I'm just glad that I didn't start my new job today.... I'm right in midtown.

They still have no idea what's really going on... the Mayor is supossed to be giving a press conference soon.

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Posted by love2plan1

Yes! I can smell it alot, when I walked in this morning. I work on 42 and Madison

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I know me too, i had went to the store at 9:04 am, yes i remember the time...and this was before it was reported, they say they started getting calls at 9:00 am...and i was like wth is that smell, and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth...I also saw firetrucks, rushing around, stopping then running out again, stopping and so on.

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Posted by AMGBride2008

I have Fox News on right now. No explosions... they say it's a gas line on 10th & Bleeker. I'm just glad that I didn't start my new job today.... I'm right in midtown.

They still have no idea what's really going on... the Mayor is supossed to be giving a press conference soon.

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Yeah they said they are just afraid of explosions where the initial gas leak is coming from because of trapped gas. They said a private construction company hit a main gas line, well thats what they have reported so far

I smelled gas when I got out of Grand Central this am.............Its bad!
Any more updates? All I know is what CNN.COM says and its not that updated.

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Posted by woobie113007

I smelled gas when I got out of Grand Central this am.............Its bad!
Any more updates? All I know is what CNN.COM says and its not that updated.

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Well they just said that trains are back on schedule...They have cleared out most of mid-town, many buildings such as empire state building, macys and so on and schools. They have found the source of the problem, but like i said before they are afraid of buildings exploding from the trapped gas, this is a strong concern by where the problem originally happened

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Posted by AMGBride2008

Bloomberg just stated that while it's an unpleasant smell, it's not harmful what so ever.

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Yeah we have the press conference on at work on the tv...Hmmmm yeah of course thats what they say lol...Hmmm if its not harmful why are they evacuating Midtown.

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by AMGBride2008

Bloomberg just stated that while it's an unpleasant smell, it's not harmful what so ever.

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Yeah we have the press conference on at work on the tv...Hmmmm yeah of course thats what they say lol...Hmmm if its not harmful why are they evacuating Midtown.

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I know.... probably precaution... better safe than sorry, right? We live in a post 9/11 world, so paranoia is common for good reason

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Posted by Julybride08

Yeah I herd about this. I herd alot of the buildings were being evacuated. Any other new news??

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not really... everyone is still really clueless

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Posted by AMGBride2008

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by AMGBride2008

Bloomberg just stated that while it's an unpleasant smell, it's not harmful what so ever.

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Yeah we have the press conference on at work on the tv...Hmmmm yeah of course thats what they say lol...Hmmm if its not harmful why are they evacuating Midtown.

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I know.... probably precaution... better safe than sorry, right? We live in a post 9/11 world, so paranoia is common for good reason

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Oh i agree, i think they shouldn't take chances...People were worried it might be something else, but when gas is that strong and spreads across manhattan and Nj it can get people sick...In august when there was a gas leak like this in queens and staten island people got sick and were rushed to the hospital...I just hope everyone is fine.

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by AMGBride2008

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Posted by AMGBride2008

Bloomberg just stated that while it's an unpleasant smell, it's not harmful what so ever.

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Yeah we have the press conference on at work on the tv...Hmmmm yeah of course thats what they say lol...Hmmm if its not harmful why are they evacuating Midtown.

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I know.... probably precaution... better safe than sorry, right? We live in a post 9/11 world, so paranoia is common for good reason

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Oh i agree, i think they shouldn't take chances...People were worried it might be something else, but when gas is that strong and spreads across manhattan and Nj it can get people sick...In august when there was a gas leak like this in queens and staten island people got sick and were rushed to the hospital...I just hope everyone is fine.

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Yes! There was a gas leak at the MTA Bus depot in East Elmhurst. The college that I used to work for and now again do is right across the street. We heard loud explosions. Everybody started screaming about the gas leak and we all ran out of the building. It was REALLY scary!

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Posted by cherish83

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Posted by Espo22

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Posted by AMGBride2008

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Posted by AMGBride2008

Bloomberg just stated that while it's an unpleasant smell, it's not harmful what so ever.

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Yeah we have the press conference on at work on the tv...Hmmmm yeah of course thats what they say lol...Hmmm if its not harmful why are they evacuating Midtown.

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I know.... probably precaution... better safe than sorry, right? We live in a post 9/11 world, so paranoia is common for good reason

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Oh i agree, i think they shouldn't take chances...People were worried it might be something else, but when gas is that strong and spreads across manhattan and Nj it can get people sick...In august when there was a gas leak like this in queens and staten island people got sick and were rushed to the hospital...I just hope everyone is fine.

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Yes! There was a gas leak at the MTA Bus depot in East Elmhurst. The college that I used to work for and now again do is right across the street. We heard loud explosions. Everybody started screaming about the gas leak and we all ran out of the building. It was REALLY scary!

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I think this happened while i was on vacation i dont remember it happening...WoW first there was a brown out, which probably happened around that same time and then explosions what a week astoria/east elmhurst area was having.

yup it happened around the same time. I had no power for those 12 days. We stayed at my grandpa's house in a part of astoria that had power.

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Posted by cherish83

yup it happened around the same time. I had no power for those 12 days. We stayed at my grandpa's house in a part of astoria that had power.

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yeah that was horrible, and on top of that we were supposed to leave during the 2nd day of that, and we find out on the news that the ship on the way to brooklyn for our cruise had crashed...we had no idea what was going on for two days if we would even go on our trip, plus with the blackout...but they fixed our ship and we went two days later than we were supposed to. It was a crazy time lol...I mean we even waited on line for ice lol