Dispatch From New Orleans - What it smells like.

[Cassandra]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2125926/?nav=tap3

"Below the elevated highway, there's standing water for miles in every direction. The water must be at least waist high—sometimes it's top-of-the-stop-sign high and halfway-up-the-house high—and it's mostly a drab gray or olive green, like people have been using it to wash paint from their hands. There are oil slicks floating on the surface. Lots of people have been asking me if the city smells bad. Yesterday, when I stuck to high ground, everything smelled like New Orleans: bad, but the kind of bad you get to know and love. But this stuff is vile and sulfurous, the sort of stench that sends carpets to the Dumpster and cars to the junkyard."

Don't worry folks, it's just lead. Hmmmmmm.......