New information on mysterious substance appearing on cars in Baldwin County
SILVERHILL, Ala. (WKRG) — The big question in Baldwin County this week — what is the mystery substance appearing on people’s cars? While we don’t know exactly what it is, we’re getting a better idea of what ties all of the incidents together.
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“I thought it was maybe some mud, but it’s gotten progressively darker,” Perri Farlow, a Silverhill resident said. “Now it’s just this dark, yellow, hardened substance all over my car.”
The most successful way to remove the substance is to take the vehicle to a detailing shop and let the professionals do the work, and getting it off can come with a hefty price tag.
“The initial cost to get this stuff off my truck, I was floored, several thousand dollars,” John Lankford, a Summerdale resident said. “It’s very frustrating that, you know, I have to spend my hard earned dollar and my family’s hard earned dollars to, you know, have my truck repaired.”
Although they said they’re looking into it to determine the best steps to work towards a solution, the mystery substance is even leaving county and state officials with questions.
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“Members of our agency of coordinated with several of our partners, especially in Silverhill and Robertsdale, with their fire, police and public works, as well as our own county departments, the Highway department and then Alabama Department of Transportation,” the Director of the Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency Tom Tyler said. “There seems to be an equal misunderstanding about what the substance may be or what its origins may be.”
But there seems to be one common thread, the people we’ve spoken with all said they drove down State Route 104 through Silverhill last Wednesday. Some decided to take matters into their own hands doing their own research to learn more about the substance.
“We are getting lab results from this chemical off of several different vehicles, not just one, not just two, several different vehicles,” Lankford said. “We’re sending the substance off the labs and we’re having it tested.”
He said they’re hoping when the results are back they’ll be able to get a better idea of how exactly it got on their cars.
“I’ve got three kids in school. I don’t know when I would have time to go take care of this,” Farlow said. “I was in the market for a new car and now, I don’t know how I’m going to sell this if I don’t get it taken care of.”
The Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency said there are no indications or evidence that the substance would pose any health hazard. As of Friday afternoon, they have not received any reports of anything of this nature pertaining to the substance.
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“We’re all in this together, so if we can find a solution, we’d love to communicate that with the public, especially if there’s any kind of mitigating factors that could assist people who have been impacted by this,” Tyler said. “But right now, we don’t have any of those kind of answers.”
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