http://www.usnews.com/usnews/images/news/photos/katrinaprep050831.jpg
The mispelling "Navigaional" made Google particularly useful. Google "Inner Harbor Navigaional" and you'll find a slew of articles associated with this press pool photo.
Thanks,,got a better pic and it is clear the barge is in the city,,,wish we had a pic of it in the canal before it breached.
There is a newsman out there who was talkig about this the day after the storm. I don't know who.
I know what's at stake here, but I have big problems with using this barge photo the way you all are suggesting.
The barge is in the neighborhood up next to a house, right?
The levee is broken nearby, right?
But the water is flowing OUT of the neighborhood.
That area filled up as the storm passed, because its seawall and the one from East Orleans Parish (or St. Bernard Parish, if the image is from East Orleans) form a big V pointed right into the storm surge.
If the barge was in the canal, into which the flooded neighborhood is spilling, how could it break the levee and then flow UPSTREAM into the neighborhood?
If the barge was at sea or in the Intercoastal Waterway and the surge pushed it into the neighborhood, and then it broke the levee from the inside, how come it didn't flow out with the flood waters?
Ok, you can see that the seawall is down, and that silt from inside the seawall has built up at the breach, so maybe the barge was inside, and maybe it cracked the wall, and maybe the broken wall prevented it from escaping with the flood waters, but you really want to be sure of what your claim is before you go using this image to "prove" anything, or else the other side is going to pick their time and blow you out of the water.
Once you lose credibility on an issue, it is very difficult to get it back, sort of a momentum/herd mentality thing.
