Smelly but safe PG&E additive turns stomachs

It was bad

It was really bad right near Gomes house. We thought it was coming from inside her house. Are they sure it is from PGE, it really smells more like her.

The smell was faint in my house, near Highland elementary, but we searched for a source for about half an hour before giving-up. Something to note, your ability to smell the odorant, methyl mercaptan, decreases the longer you breathe it. So it first seems strong, but then you can't smell it after a while, which makes leak detection very difficult.

I listen to a radio frequency scanner. Last Wednesday night, I heard many request for a Vacaville Fire Department response to an odor of natural gas.

One of the fire personal mentioned that perhaps this was due to the upgrade of the gas meters by PG $ E (like that $?). It wasn't, but that's fine.

I'm glad to see that we have such professionals that think beyond a single incident and note the possibilities of something a miss in general. We'll be needing this when terrorism grows worse, under Obama(D).

PG $ E, you mentioned why this was happening, but not why an excessive amount of mercaptan was used. Was this due to a stupid employee or an intoxicated employee?