We smell funky.
Bad.
We’ve been living out of an RV for a week now, sustained by only one shower a few days ago.
We are careful not to stir up an offensive breeze when we pass each other.
Is that swamp mud?
No, that’s just Baird.

Staff photographer Kathy Moore and Reporter Baird Helgeson

Photographer Kathy Moore finally had enough and washed her hair with bottled water.
“I feel like a new person,” she said afterward.
Reporter Ben Montgomery washed in suspicious smelling well water.
Photographer Crystal Lauderdale has found new and unusual ways to hide her hair.
“I want my hair back,” she said recently.
We try to run air condition in the RV sparingly because it burns precious gas out of the fuel tank.
Gas is such a problem that we decided we’d rather be mobile than comfortable.
It’s a tough call during these warm nights. Cracking the windows does little to ease the grip of the Mississippi heat.
Many storm victims and law enforcement officials have taken to sleeping outside.
Rain forced us to run the air conditioning last night for the first full night this trip.
It was our best and longest night sleep yet, perhaps six hours.
We leave today for Louisiana to find some communities that might not be getting the attention of New Orleans.
But first we’ll need to put all the fuel from our gas cans in the RV.
We need to get it rolling again.