The masses are converging upon my pretty little city for the second largest, and first best, St. Patrick’s Day parade in the nation. Unfortunately, the weather is shifting and the gorgeous gulf stream is being overtaken by a cold front from the west. When this happens, downtown Savannah is subject to the utterly rotten smell of the paper mills located on the westside. The mills make it smell like a factory of rotten eggs has blown up. It is absolutely vile and makes your stomach turn.
It’s unfortunate that our county officials couldn’t sweet talk the mills into shutting down for the weekend so we can avoid embarrassing ourselves in front of nearly three-quarter million visitors, but money must be made! Tourism be damned. So to all of you visiting for the first time, please don’t let the smell deter you from visiting again. It isn’t always around, I swear. Come back in August when the gulf stream is at its strongest.