The Word on the Street

There's a whole new bag of conversational topics in New Orleans these days. Here's a non-comprehensive list:

• Abatement.
• Adjusters.
• Army Corps of Engineers.
• Benzine.
• Blanco.
• Breaches.
• Bush.
• Canals.
• Contractors.
• Demolition.
• Electricity.
• Elevations.
• Feet of water.
• FEMA.
• Gas.
• Insurance.
• Lakeview.
• Levee Board.
• Levees.
• Lower Ninth Ward.
• Mold.
• Nagin.
• Neighborhoods.
• Petrochemical residue.
• Phones.
• Potability.
• Refridgerators.
• Remediation.
• Roof damage.
• Schools.
• Spores.
• Storm surge.
• Tarps.
• "When did you get back?"
• "Where'd you go?"
• Who's coming back?
• Who "got Domed".*
• Who's leaving?
• Who's staying?
• Who's still away?

Fellow residents, any additions?

* A new vernacular for the misfortune of having wound up in the Superdome.