Just the kind of childish slanderous remark I've come to expect from a liberal

dude, your a frickin idiot.

Yup~smells real fishy with the odor of corruption thrown in!

Just look around and they'll find Obama's budget nearby

Sulfer smells coming up could be the earth starting to crack and the big one is on the way. I would be running out of California about now........

It is the smell of the pending massive earthquake. It is trapped gasses being released from mother Earth and she is pissed. If you live in California get out while you can. Run for your lives. Ooooh that smell, Can't you smell that smell, Ooooh that smell, The smell of death surrounds you.

The powers to be are letting the Salton Sea die. Without the influx of water to support the myriad of fish life and birds, the water has become too shallow and warm; thus, the fish are dying, creating an odor.

Unless something is done to care for the Salton Sea, we will have another problem when it dries up: Dust bowl, which will affect the health of many people.

I tried to tell people that hard-boiled eggs and beer don't mix.

Uaw, you are one sick pathetic person.

Correct me if I am wrong but that smell has often been associated with volcanoes pre eruption? I think the people predicting a major earthquake could be onto something. I think I would be planning a vacation if I lived in that area.

it's LAID an egg, LAID...not LAY

Plays into the 2012 end of times talk doesn't it. Would be a major change if 3/4 of California slides into the Pacific.

I spent 20 mins this morning looking for a broken sewer line because of this smell. And we're about 90 miles from the Salton Sea.

We woke up one morning here in southern NH and there was a heavy fog of forest fire smoke and stink in the air that blew down from a Canadian forest fire. It was strange. Traveled hundreds of miles and lingered for days. You never know. Hopefully the stink passes soon.

Wasn't Clint Eastwood touring that section with his chair?

@gmainco

That is the first thought I also had.

Actually for 40 yrs. everytime it rains...different companies send chemical smelling odors into the air...it rained yesterday...so some f==king company released hazardous waste into the air......they will never be caught.

Just think what it would be like if we had no regulations for clean air...........

Did anybody check for gas leaks? They put it in the gas lines because gas is odorless. I mean the gas the comes from the lines not the gas from your butt.

The smell is drifting up from south of the border......

A sulfur smell would not be from a fish die off, not so wide spread. People should really think before they decide to inhabit a giant active fault line. In a word, MOVE. If you don't move fine, but don't come crying asking for aid when your house is swallowed up by the earth. With all the mudslides, stoopid forest fires, and retards out there eating up valued federal aid; I hope Cali does fall off into the ocean, it will do the rest of the country some good.

Probably the san fransisco stink drifting south.

Wow jtinstun, you really hope tens of millions of people die because they live there? You first.... PLEASE.

jtinstun..what a pathetic, uneducated thing to say. You've never been here, you've never met the wonderful people, seen the majestic beauties surrounding southern California, and we don't want you here either. Last I checked, the "stoopid forest fires" were in Colorado. Suck on that.

Debi-1314897

The powers to be are letting the Salton Sea die. Without the influx of water to support the myriad of fish life and birds, the water has become too shallow and warm; thus, the fish are dying, creating an odor.

Unless something is done to care for the Salton Sea, we will have another problem when it dries up: Dust bowl, which will affect the health of many people.

Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:25 PM EDT

Salton Sea, located in Imperial County, CA, East of San Diego County, is the result of an accident involving the rupture of an aqueduct that was being built in the area in the early part of the 20th century. It was never meant to be there in the first place. The high salinity comes from salts naturally present in the desert soil being leached by the water and which kills the fish that were introduced there by human beings. There was never a natural water source supplementing the 'sea' and so, due to the high desert temperatures and lack of precipitation, it has been drying up since it came into existance. Lake many lakes where rain is sparse and average temperatures are high, it will evaporate completely and disappear forever.

not a lot of things smell like rotton eggs, can only think of 2.... rotton eggs, and sulfur. dead fish smell nothing like rotton eggs, more like rotting fish...

i only have 2 guesses, maybe 3...

Pelosi's ass exsploded...

Cali realised it does stink finally...

or some major mother nature event is about to take place....(volcanic)

personally i would like to hope it would be one any other than a cataclysmic event possibly about to happen, but if i lived there, i would be grabbing the importants and go as far as i could get from there.

seriously. its been noted prior to some volcanic eruptions a strong odor of sulfur in the air (rotton eggs).

what i find funny. the whole state forgets where it is located, and what is deep under ground. meantime only 3 posters on this thread, counting myself remembered something from earth science, lol.

As far as people being affected by the disappearance of Salton Sea: nobody lives there and the flocks of pelicans attracted there will simply fly back towards the coast to get their food which is where they came from in the first place! Most of the area is comprised of the De Anza Borrego desert which is a vast natural park and it is sparsely populated besides a few trailers here and there that usually house eccentric recluses, human trafickers, drug runners, and meth labs. Furthermore, the stench of ammonium nitrate and other fertilizers regularly emanating from the nearest large town, El Centro, is far worse or just as bad as any pungent smell of rotten eggs.

For all the “I hope California is gone” posters out there, we will remember that the next time your sorry asses need assistance! California is one of the nation’s largest economies and is home to a load of other great things that you enjoy and take for granted. So if California ceases to exist, you will feel the economic backlash shortly afterwards my friends! Be careful what you wish for!

#1.22 - Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:32 AM EDT

With all the mudslides, stoopid forest fires, and retards out there eating up valued federal aid; I hope Cali does fall off into the ocean, it will do the rest of the country some good.

@jtinstun - please re-think your "retard" choice of word. You can make a point without going there.

They need to find the area of the smell and test its toxcitity. Volcanic gas kills quick. Yellowstone Park Rangers are very familiar with the rapid release of gas that kills many of the animals there.

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area where that odor waifed through the air now and then. We called it "Egg in the Bay".

You say the air smells like sulfur, its in a circumference of over 90 miles, your sitting on a major fault line, you just had a earth quake, are fish dying along the coast? you do know if you wait to see whats next it might be to late, but then that is the urbanised mentality, go on with what you are doing till someone tells you different, don't think for yourself and get away for a day or two, till its figured out and you know you and your family will be safe, no don't do that just wait till people start falling over dead and all the roads are packed full and escape is impossible wait till the last second and don't forget to take all your stuff with you when you do decide to go!. you do realize that there have been earthquakes north and south of you in the past few days, you are aware that a volcano has erupted in Nicaragua, along that same ring of fire San Diego sets on, you do know you are over due for a disaster, what are you people waiting for permission? just go away for a day or so till you know what it is, beat the rush. when everyone starts to leave you know its to late.

Ahh, the smell of feces and urine coming up from Mexico!

jtinstun.... you have never taken a CA History class. That's apparent. CA is THE biggest producing state in the whole country, we go, the Country would suffer a bit. If we, CA, were our own country, separate from the USA, we would rank 7th (or there abouts) in world wealth.

Ignorance and childishness abounds on this thread. Having lived in So Cal for most of my 39 years, the occasional smell of 'shlt' from the Salton Sea has been around a while. Yet you have the eco-conscious people inform us that a lake that was never supposed to exist in the first place is now dying. We have the basement geologists informing us the 'Big One' is on the way and they hope we all die. The Big One has been 'coming' my entire life, just when exactly is it supposed to get here?

Smug alert. South Park was right, they just missed the part where it also has a stink to it.

uaw...United auto worker should be banned from here for life. What a low life scumbag without a brain. But what can you expect from a lazy uaw? IF he had a brain and thought for even 7 seconds what he said and then did it anyway ban him permanetly! No place for "people" like him that never make any sense.

If its not nature then its one of two other things.

its all the California smoking butts. or the drug cartels are using mustard gas. look around and see who is walking funny.

it would be a kick if it was a shipment of scent being shipped to a refinery to have a leaky valve and drip the smell all up the state. I find it hard to believe that the State of California can't or won't tell what is causing this.

Anyone seen Rosie O'Donnell lately, maybe she imploded?

Ya I saw her she was at the stockyards getting a douche and a dip.

Ya think?

Please add the decaying presence of Barbra Boxer and Diane Feinstein and there you go.

Nah, I think it's congress laying on the beach. All that nasty funky flesh laying around will do that.

@McGeer... Seems to me the real manure being flung around would be from Romney and Ryan... Those two can't even get their minds straight.

I wonder if they will ever come out of the closet?

Funny you say that figuring how blue california is

hmmmm...and a river in China turns red, but "they" will come up with an explanation on that one also. Unexplainable foul odor...hope it has nothing to do with the radiation that is coming in from Japan. Cali is a shelf so for ppls safety I pray there is not a major quake coming because the gasses thing from previous posters does sound logical. Everyone should at all times have a disaster preparedness duffle ready. No matter what...in ANY time of fear...never turn on your neighbor no matter short or tall, gay or straight, all skin colors, no matter what your beliefs, rich or poor, man or woman, young or old...for if we do turn on each other then we ARE divided and fall. Surpress greed and Trust in God. Don't let the evil divide us! That is what they are counting on us to do !!! Thank you Jesus for dying for my pitiful sins and thank you Holy Spirit for cinvicting me to loving my neighbors even if repayed in hate. Search your hearts and ask God to guide you before you head to the voting poles. Loe ALWAYS defeats evil! Blessings to ALL!

Oh great- republican lowlife making tasteless statements. Mindless.

HUH?

Correcto!

Yup, my first thought exactamente. The Big ONE is comin'! San Andreas Fault goodbye El Diablo Nuclear Plant and hello West Coast Chernobyl!

Yes...I was thinking that too. I was amazed that it wasn't even eluded to in the broadcast. I mean, It's only the MOST obvious cause. It MAY be something less sinister but that it sure sounds like a sulfuric release from a fissure to me.

It's most likely not methane, because the rotten egg smell that we equate with methane is an additive and not naturally occurring. Sulfur release sounds reasonable. So does the churning of deeper water to the surface, which would also churn any decaying organic material in that deeper water and cause a big stink.

@ Handy, I feel this too, but I was thinking Sulfur, not Methane, though Methane works too. I have been checking out Dutchsinse, on you tube, and something may be coming up

The prevailing winds would send the smell from the Salton sea eastward not north by north west.

I believe that the sulfur smell could be from a subterranean fissure of some sort. Volcanic action seems unlikely, but if not from logical source ( natural gas, fish die off) it leaves one to wonder.

There have been a tremendous amount of quakes in the Ring of fire over the past month. I think it started with the Quake Swarm in Temecula in August just below the Salton sea. Then Eastern Pacific, and Costa Rica lately. I know there are many more and they happen all the time. But I lived in Ca for 35 years and have never heard of a sulfur smell across anything more than a city block and a gas leak was all that was.

Rotten egg smell is an additive put into Natural Gas or Methane. If this was coming out of the ground naturally it would have no smell.

If it is leaking out of a pieline (this too could be the issue there are miles and miles of pipelines in CA. Heck Everywhere!) There was a huge explosion I think in the 80's where a locomotive went out of control and derailed into a housing project in San Bernardino causing a gas line rupture. It burned everything.

the Salton Sea used to be the northern tip of the gulf of Mexico....eons ago....some geologists think it will be again someday.......the smell was the counties of SD, SB,Riverside and Orange a small part of California.

I think somebody watched Dante's Peak too many times.

Handy is both right and wrong. The odor could be due to release of a geologic gas, but that gas could not be methane, which is completely odorless. On the other hand, "rotten eggs" is the definitive odor of hydrogen sulphide (H2S), and is easily smelled at just a few parts per million in the air.

There are numerous hot sulphur springs in Southern Calif., so the geochemical processes for producing hydrogen sulphide are defnitely present. Pockets of H2S could then have collected in impervious sections of rock over the years, just as methane, helium, and other gasses have. A fracture in such an area, as by an earthquake - even a rather small one - could release some of this trapped gas, causing the odor. In fact, this has sometimes been noticed in the aftermath of earthquakes.

As for the suggestion that it comes from a ruptured gas line, I would say unlikely. if H2S were used as the oderant - so tha people can esily detect a lead iof the otherwise colorless, odorless gas, it would be at only part-per-million levels and when diluted by air, would be noticable only in a relatively small area, not widespread. Also, the pipeline company would have noticed the leak from their pressure measurements, and have dispatched crews to find and repair the leak to prevent the loss of many thousands of dollars.

The disturbance or overturn of some lake seciments could perhaps release a large ammount of H2S, but decaying fish tend mainly to release ammonia and amino compound. While these odors are unpleasant, I doubt they would be described as "rotten eggs."

This theory really puts officials in a pickle. If they broadcast that the smell is from gases being released due to possible pending seismic activity - the highways will be jammed up for days for the exodus. Then, should it not pan out - lawsuits will abound.

But ! If officials do nothing AND a major event occurs.....the people will scream they should have been warned.

Its just Nancy Pelosi instructing Obama on how to fix the housing market so everyone can own a home, the same speech she gave Bush.

If I resided there given the events of the past week or so I would look at this with the most serious point of view. no harm in playing it safe take a mini vacation maybe a drive to lake Havasu do a little boating, Tahoe sounds nice, Brazil has some nice places, that's where all the rich are buying land, I wonder why? do they know something we don't, if so they forgot to tell Berry, Joe and that Nancy woman with all of California's money, you know the one that vacations at $100,000.00 a day in Hawaii, whats her name she did all the inside trading and got filthy rich off her political career ---"Pelosi" that's it! the girl points her finger at everyone but herself, she is deep in the economic breakdown of the previous administration but she will never admit it as long as she has others to blame, and she just kept getting richer as the country went broke she is now worth a estimated what $10,000.00 a hour income boy I'll bet she can pay some taxes huh how about $7,500.00 a hours worth. if something stinks in California its her. and she still points her finger at Bush even though the Icing is all over her face, she is racking it in so fast she can't even count it. I wonder where she hides it all. it amazes me the people of California Pay her to rip off the rest of the country. they pay her to use her office for self profit. yep that's where the sickening smell is coming from citizen comrade x party leader Nancy Pelosi. well at least she spends her money on nice vacations and things to help out the other rich people. she doesn't deal with lowlifes only the rich elite can get at her money.

Methane is odorless. The rotten egg smell is usually Hydrogen Sulfide,

Yeah all dah ol' farts on Capitol Hill!

well, if it were an ass waxing that would explain alot of the smell. A smell emitting from Kim's big a$$ would be strong enough to take out an entire country

Alliens have BEEN THERE for quite some time....they are called California Fruitcakes... the whole pod/state has been infested by them since statehood!

That IPFreely chick is a allien, and she has never seen a male thing, she doesn't have a clue to what peeing freely is, she still squats. she really snaps back at the ? male post, I don't think she wants to share the planet. or she is jelious about the pee pee. maybe she wants her own?

no what was the story? oh! "California stinks". How can they tell?

Doc-you're an ASS.

It was DOC he was in the hen house again. I told him not to suck but he wont listen.

I'm sure California smells a lot better than your stanky a$$ breath, Gene

AMEN! That POD is financially bankrupt and morally poluted..... the Land of OVER Regulations, Pelosi, Fruits and Nuts!

well Eric, I'm sure that POD with all it's fruits and nuts, is cleaner than your frank and beans you have stuffed in your underwear

Gene Davidson,I live in California.We have some of the most awesome places such as Big Sur,Yosemite,Morro Bay.You should visit someday,it's not all inner city ugliness,smog and crowded.

No Gene - please do not ever come to California - please stay in Michigan & enjoy the -30 degree weather and enjoy your ice fishing....when I am surfing in SoCal...

I've been all over California and the farther north the better but the cities outweigh the good of the more remote places, the overpopulation is frustrating at best, the tourism is rediculous, no freedom left to move about on your own you have to follow the herd, its not what it used to be and its not getting better sorry. lots of collective thinking the gangs all shoot at the same time, the people all run at the same time almost as if they reherse the daily rutine, now even nature is with the socialist style the whole state stinks at the same time and everyone gags and complanes at the same time. the state was so nice back in the 50's and 60's what have you people done to it you should be ashamed. just out of currousity what are the birds doing today?