See.

I told you the USA was going down the toilet. You can smell it now.

Looks like you're being dumped in California first, with the rest to
follow.

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Foul smell reported across Southern California

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/1950696...ern-california

Posted: Sep 10, 2012 7:22 PM EDT Updated: Sep 10, 2012 11:23 PM EDT
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A strong rotten egg smell had Southern
Californians plugging their noses and crying foul Monday as air quality
investigators scrambled to determine if the sulfurous scent was coming
from the Salton Sea.

Investigators from the South Coast Air Quality Management District
spread investigators all over the region in an attempt to track the
stench after being flooded with 200 complaints since midnight from
across much of the district's 10,000 square miles, said Barry
Wallerstein, executive for the agency.

Wallerstein said "several factors" indicate the odor could be coming
from the Salton Sea, a 376-square-mile sal****er lake about 150 miles
southeast of Los Angeles, but there is no definitive evidence yet of
this or any other cause.

"The odor was extremely intense," said Janis Dawson of the Salton Sea
Authority. "We actually thought that somebody had an accident, a broken
sewage main, that's how strong it was."

The dying sea, a major resting stop for migrating birds on the Pacific
Flyway, has been plagued by increasing salinity. Created in 1905 when
floodwaters broke through a Colorado River irrigation canal, it's
expected to shrink significantly by 2018 and become even saltier.

The sea had a fish die-off within the past week and that, combined with
strong storms in the area late Sunday, could have churned up the water
and unleashed bacteria from the sea floor that caused the stench, said
Dawson.

The massive thunderstorm complex moved from Mexico over the area Sunday
night, with wind gusts up to 60 mph and widespread dust storms.

"We were watching it from the office on our satellite radar and it was
huge, one of the largest that any of us have ever seen in probably 10
years," said Mark Moede, a National Weather Service meteorologist in San
Diego.

Wallerstein acknowledged the storm could be a factor in the smell's
spread but said it's "highly unusual" for odors to remain powerful up to
150 miles from their source.

The smell doesn't pose any health hazards, but it generated an explosion
of quips on social media from Riverside County to the San Fernando
Valley north of Los Angeles.

Jose Chavez, a 28-year-old comedian from San Fernando, tweeted: "The
Valley is starting to smell like rotten eggs. In an unrelated note,
Febreeze sales are through the roof in the San Fernando Valley."

Chavez was leaving the grocery store when he was overwhelmed by the
odor, he said in a phone interview.

"My first thought was that maybe one of the eggs I bought was rotted and
I got back home and the smell was still there so then I started to think
it was me so I changed my clothes," he said. "It was very pungent."

Jack Crayon, an environmental scientist at California's Department of
Fish and Game, said he recognized the smell as the typical odor when
winds churn up the sea's waters and pull gases from the decomposition of
fish or other organisms up to the surface.

He said the phenomenon typically occurs a few times a year in the area
surrounding the lake, but it was unusual for the smell to spread so far.

Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief at California Department of Forestry
and Fire Protection in Riverside, said heavy cloud cover that's been
lingering over the area has trapped the smell in the suburbs east of Los
Angeles.

The smell was reported as far away as Palmdale and Lancaster, more than
150 miles north of the Salton Sea.

"It's just not able to evaporate up into the atmosphere," Hutchinson
said. "The moisture and thick heavy air is keeping it in the lower ends
of the valleys."

The smell was starting to dissipate Monday as winds picked up speed, she
said.

The Salton Sea is about one-third saltier than the ocean and sits 200
feet below sea level.

It relies on water that seeps down from nearby farms, and it has been
plagued with fish die-offs that result from low oxygen levels in the
water and receding shorelines.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:12:44 -0400, If It's Brown
wrote:

See.

I told you the USA was going down the toilet. You can smell it now.



Ok, don't move here. Problem solved !!