So the Md bar is taking place at the convention center. At the same time as BronyCon. Stressed out baby lawyers and cosplay. Whee!

Can you call your local utility regulators to find out if they are allowed to do this? And if they are, or even if they are not call your local papers and local news and talk shows. Get them some bad publicity.

It smells like kerosene in my apartment. My stove is definitely off, and I don't think it's quite gas smell, anyway. What to do?

Edit: I have decided to leave the windows open and generally trust the CO detector.

I'm trying to think of what else smells like kero. Regular gas, nsm. Natural gas doesn't actually smell like much, they add something akin to skunk to it. Are there renovations going on in your building? If someone is using a solvent, that could be it. Or if someone is burning torches/cintronella candles outside?

Can you ask a neighbor to come sniff?

Can you ask a neighbor to come sniff?

Out of context this could be a rather disturbing sentence.

They are doing renovations on a couple of units downstairs, but now? That seems weird. I think it's dissipating, at any rate.

Maybe you should light a candle to get a better look?

Maybe someone spilled something.

I know they add garlic odorant to propane (that was sort of part of my dad's job for a while, he has a big old story about the time some not-yet-odorated propane got out into the pipeline and he was getting flown around in helicopters to literally sniff out how far the problem had gotten) but I don't know about natural gas, except that something is added because otherwise no smell and that would be very dangerous. I don't think I even know what kerosene smells like, which is hamstringing me in brainstorming what else could cause that smell.

It definitely smells like paint thinner out in the hall, so maybe they left supplies outside the unit or something. It's a mystery! But one I am not going to worry about.