Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 36 rotting 34 flooded 33 dig 33 Ninth Ward 33 dug 33 rotted 32 piles 31 mud 31 digging 30 rusted 30 digs 30 cave 29 muck 29 crevices 28 mounds 28 poured 28 piled 28 wading 28 wade 27 Mayor Ray Nagin 27 earthen 27 chipped 27 Nagin 27 FEMA trailers 27 overflowed 27 burrowing 27 stuck 26 hurricane ravaged 26 poking 26 hollowed 26 bayou 26 burrows 26 Superdome 26 sink 25 riverbanks 25 seeped 25 fossilized 25 excavated 25 cavern 25 scraped 25 FEMA 25 pokes 25 muddy 25 seeps 25 excavate 25 Katrina 24 burying 24 buried beneath 24 dump 24 crawl 24 Joplin 24 shoveling 24 shoveled 24 bury 24 clogged 24 buried 24 trenches 24 washed 24 Lower 9th 24 swamping 24 sandbag 24 crawling 24 suck 24 Digging 24 dirt 24 manhole 24 excavators 24 entombed 24 waded 24 crawled 24 levees 24 French Quarter 23 shovels 23 shantytown 23 floodwater 23 dredge 23 floodwaters 23 seep 23 FEMA trailer 23 levee 23 crushed 23 sewed 23 sucked 23 dike 23 pile 23 ravine 23 caved 22 backhoes 22 inundated 22 scraping 22 diggers 22 decorate 22 trench 22 creek bed 22 excavation 22 depths 22 floods 22 bare 22 buries 22 Waveland 22 Downtown Eastside