Barge could have crashed through canal's floodwallAmazingly, we have here an entire story dedicated to the barge theory! And even some speculation at the end of the story that the 17th Street canal breach was caused by a barge:
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
BY JOHN McQUAID
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
A loose barge may have caused a large breach in the east side of the Industrial Canal floodwall that accelerated Hurricane Katrina's rising floodwaters in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and adjacent St. Bernard Parish, Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al Naomi said yesterday.
Naomi said the barge was found on the land side of the floodwall, leading Army Corps officials to believe it could have crashed through the wall and sent a huge amount of water -- which was already pouring over the top -- into the neighborhoods immediately downriver.
"We have some pictures that show this very large barge inside the protected area. It had to go through the breach," Naomi said. "The opening is a little bit wider than the barge itself. One would think it's the barge that did it." ...
Leonardo Ramirez, a construction worker and Metairie resident who lives on the Jefferson Parish side of the 17th Street Canal near the breached area, said he thought he heard a barge hitting the levee early Aug. 29, though he did not see it happen.Check it out!
"At quarter to six in the morning we heard a huge bang, and then we heard another," he said. "It was so loud. It scared us."
And there are now some other MSM stories that actually contain barge references. But nothing from the NYeT al heavy MSMajors.
And as near as I can tell, The Rail was on top of this very early:
A prediction, levees and the levee breaks are going to be extremely big news in the next few weeks.And there's a very interesting comment there by an ex-FEMA employee too.
We’ve already heard some of it. And frankly a lot of the news will likely criticize the failure to upgrade them. But, the levees are going to be big news because the body count will be significant. And the outcry will grow, as tragic discoveries of people drowning in their homes will be trumpeted by an outraged media.
We will learn, as if it is new news, that the major levee failure was the result of empty barges broken free by the hurricane ramming the concrete retaining walls. Survivors in Baton Rouge who relayed the stories to reporters in the evacuation centers have already reported it.
But you've got to do some serious Googling to find this stuff.
NYeT/(C)BS/CNN doesn't want you to know that even the proposed Cat 5 flood wall wouldn't have helped since it wasn't going to be built where the canal walls broke! Much less that even if Bush was clairvoyant and made everything including canal walls Cat 5 reinforced (why everyone knows that Slick Willy was going to get right on that if he could have just had ANOTHER term!) little details like barges cause just a slight complication to the "W eats babies for breakfast" narrative.
But yall just go right ahead and turn your brain to risible MSMush.
And while youre at it don't forget: I control Karl Rove.
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