I've read this story before: White Noise by Don Derillo

Didn't a Stephen King novel start out like this?

A chlorine or sweet smell? Please be a little more specific. I've smelt chlorine, and it ain't sweet. On the other hand, there is something that DOES smell sweet -- and I'd have smoked a lot more of it, except that it makes me sneeze uncontrollably.

/Was born in Mercer County, adjacent to at least one of these two.

It took me a while to sort out the reference to "bean supper". I associate beans with brown clouds.

Oh yeah? Then why do we now have two heads? Hey, I'm typing here. Shut up.

"Endo? Smell mo' like outdo."

It's Friday, you ain't got no job...

The cloud that turns people inside out?

/The Simpsons

Ninth Post!

/sorry.

In other news, Emelio Estevez is trapped in a roadside diner encircled by demonic freight trucks.


/props to JohnnyDanger

and they received no reports of chemical accidents at local industries or escaped chlorine at swimming pools.

Huh?

"Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."

mutt,
Chlorine put into swimming pools can react funny with improper handling or any other chemicals getting in (ammonia is a problem), causing it to vaporize into pure chorine gas, which is fatal if inhaled.

silly l
/chLorine

My breath looks kinda like that in the morning... But seemingly my breath is a lot more lethal.

Who made who?

couldn't be too serious, the ATM didn't call me an arsehole

/wonders if its near the Dixie Boy truck stop

Excuse me!

""""The National Weather Service suspects the cloud may have been the result of an inversion.""""

WTF?

That sounds like a fart outta hell to me.

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pittsburghpostgazett e_420x120&random=1091252026171&adsafe=high&lmt=1091252026&format=420x120_pas_a bgnc&output=html&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.post-gazette.com%2Fpg%2F04212%2F354210.s tm

Yes, we must donate money to help kids and stuff.

Meanwhile, mysterious green smoke appears on this small town as local authorities say.......

I was waiting for a quote that the Austin's plant in nearby Mars, PA had nothing to do with it. The plant is upwind and within about ~5 miles from where the mysterious cloud was sighted. Austin's makes, amongst other products, bleach and ammonia for household and industrial use.

http://www.jamesaustin.com/index.html

sometimes after a night of beer drinking, a yellowish green cloud floats over my bed/house

Inversion: An atmospheric condition in which the air temperature rises with increasing altitude, holding surface air down and preventing dispersion of pollutants.

/who knew??
//besides dictionary.com, I mean.

nothing bad ever comes from a mysterious glowing green cloud....

Tenesmus
Good call!
and look at the time I'm late for my Hitler Studies...

In other news, Pittsburgh has been identified as having the highest amount of Arab traffic at its airport, according to census data.

Tom Ridge, who previously made the statement, "We're gonna smoke 'em out," was unavailiable for comment.

Zombies.
^__________^

Isn't Shippingport out that way?
Just asking, no reason to be concerned.

Oh no! Chemtrails! Call Art Bell immediately!

A brown-green cloud caused by inversion? Riiiiight.

In related news: I used to work at a Renaissance faire in the middle of dairy cow country. Every morning it was foggy, and the fog wouldn't dissipate until mid-afternoon. Finally I asked one of the locals at a Rite-Aid (while in costume. Ah, the looks I got) why it was always foggy. She said "Ah, yeah. We call that the 'Yellow Mist'."

Apparently, because there's so many damn cows (you can't throw a stick and miss one) in the area, they're always pissing all over the ground. This creates a lot of warm moist air in the middle of the night (as a result of evaporating cow piss) which turns into a dense ground fog. Fog, caused by cow piss. I breathed that shiat for 8 days.

I don't work that faire anymore.

The National Weather Service suspects the cloud may have been the result of an inversion.

Well, I suspect that the cloud was caused by some redneck kids and a smoke grenade, but the cloud held together for a long time due to the inversion.

Yeah your government wouldn't have anything to hide. And with the way the clean air regulations have been rolled back whatever the hell it is more than likely is with in "safe levels anyway. Good luck with those mutie babies and all that cancer.

/grew up around coal plants

"I made the beans... with my ketchup..."



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11:58:31 AM Testicleus

It's not her ketchup and warn a guy next time please.

There's a Cthulhu Mythos reference in here somewhere...there just has to be....