Always looking for good news -)

This is pretty grim:

NEW ORLEANS - The bodies of more than 40 mostly elderly patients were found in a flooded-out hospital in the biggest known cluster of corpses to be discovered so far in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.

This is, too:

Overlooked in many news reports about the unfolding storm disaster in the southern United States, especially in the City of New Orleans, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, is a potentially dramatic pollution issue related to a toxic landfill that sits under the floodwaters right in the city's downtown, according to map overlays of the flooded area. The situation could exacerbate the already dire threat to human health and the environment from the floodwaters.

Flooded Superfund site. Second bit via Josh.