One claimant has written to me describing it. They ate nothing. The smell was indescribable. The stench was indescribable. Some drank their own urine because they were in effect dying of thirst.

Dead grass doesn't smell great. There was a stench in here [Thursday].

Miles before we got there, you could smell the stench of all this rotting from the flood ... even from up in the air, ... I would be surprised if people would be able to move back very soon, just from the level of destruction.

You have to brace yourself for the smell. It is a really bad stench. It is disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

We could smell the stench from rotten leaves and timber from 500 feet in a helicopter.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.