[Mike Darancette]

he said the barge was on the wrong side of the levee,

Well we got the Barge, but, hey, just a co-incidence?

[KC_for_Freedom]

Well again, show me the pictures, We had enough aerial coverage to find a barge if someone thought a barge had done some damage. Remember the levee broke after the storm, in the morning. No place for the barge to go but into the flood zone. Now, there are many levee breas, I was referring to the main one that broke on the Lake side. I guess of the many breaks a barge could have done one of them. I believe a full recap will be forthcoming one day. No need to worry too much just now.

[Tarpon]

It really is going to be hard to prove causality. The barge could have just as easily floated through the break as caused the break.

My guess would be the water topped the levees, washed the fill dirt from the back side and they collapsed. The concrete flood walls are looking like a bad idea -- once the water level rises enough to go over them, doomed. The Japanese have tsunami flood walls, the backsides are all concrete so if topped the water flows down them -- you may get water over them, but they don't wash out and fail completely.