Russian capital Moscow shrouded in noxious gas

[Bosonic]

Source: BBC

Residents of parts of the Russian capital Moscow have been urged by the emergencies ministry to stay indoors because of a noxious gas that is spreading through the city.

The source of the gas is unclear - no accidents have been reported at any of Moscow's chemical factories.

Media reports said that the gas was hydrogen sulphide, which can be highly toxic and smells like rotten eggs.

It has been smelt in central, eastern and south-eastern parts of the city.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29990375

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Another reason to invade Ukraine.

As this is obviously the work of separatist spies and terrorists.

[melm00se]

24. I am waiting for Putin

to declare them vrag naroda or kulaks

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. there is absolutely no one who acts as a counterweight to his rule.

He has arrested anyone who was powerful and opposed his moves. He has clamped down and had the press beaten, killed, or taken off the air or out of print. There is nothing, but his good (?) sense stopping him. Which ain't all that good.

[Renew Deal]

2. Putin's legacy?

[Sunlei]

3. Holocene extinction?

Putins 150 year old infrastructure leaks a little?

[hedgehog]

4. I've never understood how staying inside is supposed to

protect you from pollution.

The description of the smell reminds me of how the steel mills smelled in the old days. Maybe some plant lost its baghouse (if such anti-pollution equipment is used in Russia).

[JoeyT]

8. It's how paper mills smell now.

That awful smell when you pass one that clings to the inside of your car for the next thirty minutes is H2S and a few other chemicals.

FWIW: The stuff puts off an ungodly reek even in tiny amounts. It's when you know it's there and you can't smell it at all that you're screwed.

[mahina]

9. Thanks for that info. Why is it worse if you know it's there but can't smell it?

I can't smell anything

Sometimes, a little. I appreciate it when I can.

Just wondering. But when I could smell things, we went on a family trip to Washington, and passed a paper mill town at one point. The Hawaiian word is, hauna. Really stink!

[JoeyT]

13. IIRC it causes olfactory fatigue

after a while, which means you've been in it too long. If your sense of smell goes fast, it means it's getting up toward a lethal concentration and paralyzed your olfactory nerves.

[mahina]

16. whoa!

yikes.

[riversedge]

12. yes, travel thru Central WI --the smell

does cling. Although much less now that several have shut down

[dembotoz]

17. went to school up there years ago-some mornings when leaving the dorm

the smell would just hit you.

[NutmegYankee]

23. I drive everyday right by a cardboard factory that never smells.

I wonder if it's only for regular sheet paper. I remember driving by those and smelling that awful smell.

[Duckhunter935]

5. I think more of this

those neo-nazi coup Ukrainians are sneaky, or maybe some of those freedom cookies were delivered.

[DallasNE]

6. Sounds More Like An Air Inversion

So the foul gasses that are normal got trapped this time and have not dispersed. In other words, simple smog.

[TwilightGardener]

7. "It has been smelt"...but no one knows who dealt.

[ZombieHorde]

21. Hehe. nt

[William769]

10. Proof positive the hot air & propaganda Putin spews is toxic. Go figure! nt

[PeoViejo]

11. H2S is more toxic than Hydrogen Cyanide on an equivalent basis.

It might have been an Industrial Accident.

[defacto7]

14. H2S is one of the earths natural

extinction causes either as part of or by itself the method of 7 major extinctions in earth's history. Not that this has anything to do with the OP.

[Old Nick]

15. Czar Vladimir must have been speaking in public

[Odin2005]

18. Putin farted.

[Comrade Grumpy]

19. I knew I should have stayed away from this thread. DU approaches kindergarten level.

[tabasco]

20. Speaking of kindergarten ...

your post is the first making juvenile insults of other posters.

[ZombieHorde]

22. Don't mind him.

He's just grumpy.

[Adrahil]

25. Obviously a Nuland/CIA plot. NT

[olddad56]

26. maybe they opened a Chipotles in Moscow, their burritos always give me noxious gas.