Deadly Spray

One image repeated on the news reports from New Orleans that disturbed me and that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere is this: all those shots of/from helicopters hovering over people wading in the streets grabbing the supplies being dropped from the craft. It was bad enough these helpless residents were stuck sloshing through the flooded streets in the filthy, toxic sewage. But the spray generated by the helicopters' hovering was filling these people's lungs with microscopic particles of the chemical-and-bacteria-laden water. I can't imagine how terribly sick these people will become.