Reply #7: "Smell the bodies"? [View All]

Gawd knows I wouldn't defend FEMA.

However, I did read yesterday that residents coming back to New Orleans were beginning to deal with refrigerators and freezers that had sat for a month in high temperatures.

I'm guessing that some of the smells may be due to that. I can't recall where I read the article- it was either CNN or MSNBC- but one doctor was quoted as saying that the stench from the rotting food was worse than any smell from the autopsies he'd performed on bodies that had been found floating at the height of summer (in whatever city he happened to be working in -- he wasn't commenting on the floating bodies from New Orleans).