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...feces, battery acid, human and animal rot, burst containers of bug spray and paint thinner and nail polish and antifreeze. The primary sensory experience of New Orleans now is the smell, a gagging foulness of the charnel, of the hundreds of bloated fish pooled in the 17th Street Canal and a million other nasty things floating everywhere. The masterless dogs are so hungry and delirious in the 92° heat that they drink this mix, at least a lap or two, and then stagger away. The city smells dead, and although the French Quarter and a few other areas were blessedly...
TIME reporter Kim Humphreys paddled down a flooded Canal Street yesterday with a couple on a mission to rescue their cats. Here's her report...
...door to Laurie's second-floor apartment had been broken open, and we weren't sure what to do. I had just canoed down Canal Street from City Park to Mid City with Laurie and her boyfriend Will on a mission to rescue three of their cats, plus two more belonging to a friend and whatever else they could salvage from their drowned apartments...
...trip down Canal was surreal; we floated over one of the city's main arteries, the murky water varying in depth from inched to more than 10 feet. At times we found ourselves paddling over the tops of pickup trucks. Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement officials, who were skeptical about our presence, but reluctantly allowed us to continue. Above us a steady stream of helicopters circled, patrolling the area from...
...continued paddling down Canal Street, occasionally seeing people on their second-story balconies who declined our offers of rescue. And then there we were, at Laurie's apartment, facing-what? Frightened refugees? Armed squatters? A ransacked home? We went inside...