According to the news it sounds like intense
sound impulses sent birds into a panic
where they flew themselves to death
into nearby objects.


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From: gpayton@.............
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The Hydrogen sulfide is heavier than air, according to what I read.  I personally DOUBT the idea of gas involvement or connection of 
the events.  It is strange though.
Regards & Happy New year,
Jerry


From: Thomas Dick
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 12:06 AM
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Subject: Re: Guy, AR

On 1/3/2011 9:20 PM, gpayton@............. wrote: You thinking Hydrogen sulfide or Methane?
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I don't know about the type of gas ... or IF it involved a gas.  I talked to the North Little Rock weather bureau and they told me 
that the wind was out of the south until about midnight(30) when it turned out of the north.  We usually get the weather from  over 
there (in Arkansas) the next day or two at the most..Actually my wind tried to turn to the north about midnight on Jan1. I never had 
a peak wind speed of over 9 MPH for the two days before and the north wind got here midnight on Jan 1 and the wind was calm for at 
least four hours each day (31, and 1 to 3) which might suggest a very light wind over there. There was a brief squall line passed 
through. It lasted all of about 30 minutes.... no significant wind.   Temperatures started around 30 degree F over there on the 28 
and gradually moved up to low fifties by Jan 1.  We did get some rain ... about an inch. The streams are cold in that area and they 
catch a lot of trout. I would expect a higher than average oxygen content in streams and lakes at this time of year.

I pulled a 5th wheel through Guy area in November and it is all up hill from Little Rock to almost Branson and the streams are 
incised.  The News mentioned a dam and a stretch of water below this dam and to the area of Hartman, AR...I would expect this to be 
rather fast moving shallow water that didn't freeze. The lakes over here were frozen for over two weeks . There was one small fish 
kill in one lake when the ice cleared. That wouldn't explain the dead birds. Some of the birds I saw were red-winged black birds. 
This is a bird that likes to be around water but their food source would be berries and stuff away from water at this time of year.

The only thing I can say for sure.... there was a gentle upslope wind acting on the area at the time this happened. The general flow 
of surface water is west to east in this Guy area but there might be underground springs, 

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