DID ANYONE ELSE SEE THIS?
I was watching FNC earlier and Steve Harvey (the comedian) was at a Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge. He was talking about some of the stories he's been hearing from different folks. He said an older genteleman told him he lived right next to the levey that broke. The man said 2 big grain barges crashed into the levey. Steve wondered why nobody else has heard that story. The man's house flooded quickly. He got himself and his handicapped wife up to the roof but she was swept away.
I wondered if that story is true, and if it is, why the media is not reporting it. Perhaps because it would take some of the wind out of their "Bush cut the levey funding, therefore it broke," sails.
I talked to my mom in Baton Rouge a couple of days ago... She said she heard a barge ran into and broke the concrete levee of one of the main canals.
I am so glad to see your post about the barges. We saw very early on pics of a barge in the industrial canal that had gone through the levee. Some reporter saw it and the thing had gone thru to the other side. Then I never heard about it. The barge was being worked on.
Someone mentioned it, but it hasn't been confirmed. If true, the MSM has had better things to do. Try to take down the President and whitewash the failure of Nagin and Blanco.
I HAVE SEEN THE PICTURES! When they show the WHOLE levee.The Barge is seetting on top of 2 houses on the other side..
Yet the Mainstream media is NOT reporting that, and instead trying to blame Bush Budget cuts...
We need to get that word around NOW!
Check out post 5253.
I heard him and I said to myslef "who is this crack head" I was cooking and had the TV on in the other room.