Inside Houston’s Flooded Alley Theatre – “The Worst Possible Thing”

What starts off as a sensation of the nose and throat soon turns into a full-body experience — a dizzying mixture of rotting wood, rotting paper, infested carpet, swamp-soaked chairs, sewage, bacteria and humidity. The lobby had been entirely submerged in slimy, green-blue-black water since Sunday, allowing the walls and ceilings to soften and melt. Pinch your nose and you can still smell the rot through your mouth. “As a managing director, you always think of the worst possible thing that can happen,” Gladden says. “This is the worst possible thing.”