re: What was Katrina like?

The sweet/rotten mud smell lasted a good year in my town. The smell of dead bodies was very evident the days after, but after they'd recover them, the air would clear for a while, but you could still get a whiff of it every now and then, like they missed someone. Two weeks later, when the bulldozers were clearing a side road in my neighborhood, they found two people who were stuck in their car, then buried by debris. Awful stuff.