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They planned to leave the wood there for 9 years, and then dig it up to see how much it had rotted.

The pain is worst in her thigh, where she had a metal rod inserted after cancer rotted her femur.

Many seemed scrupulously cared for, but in others a rotted half-sprung mattress would block an upper floor window, with trash strewn in the yard.

Santa Monica resident Maria Alzaga said she too was perplexed when she caught her first whiff of the “rotted food/garbage/sewage” odor on Sunday evening.

But in San Francisco, neighbors wield unusual power over next-door renovations and modest improvements and can appeal even the replacement of rotted front steps.