No sign so far of them breaching Addicks. The Cajun probably didn’t lie, but either spread gossip or else they—flood control—changed their mind.
I agree, no sense in him driving and boating, for free, just to tell tales now, it doesn’t fit. At the same time, data feeds he has access to probably aren’t over blueprints or in boardrooms, he’s getting scuttlebutt at the front line.
I should have known better. The shock of not believing him, then seeing the whole original stretch of those cofferdams go missing “overnight” reeled me right in.
One clue I should have picked up on...the ends of that cut in the embankment are beautifully dressed, right down to waterline. Not at ALL what we’d see from an emergency excavation, in the dark, in a hurry. That is careful, daily toil, with plenty of coffeebreaks to look it over and pretty it all up.