Where: Austin, TX When: September 17th, 2026, about 10:45PM Description of Event (as relayed by witness): I was walking my dog near Ladybird Lake when she stopped dead in her tracks and began to sniff at the air pretty seriously. I didn’t think too much of it and tried myself to sniff out whatever she was smelling. And sure enough, like a wall of it just smacked me in the face. It smelled definitely like skunk but there was something else to it too. Like burning ions, i
