Posted on 09/03/2005 6:27:56 AM PDT by F105-D ThunderChief
It's my understanding that the 17th St. canal levee breach occurred on Tuesday, August 30, 2005. Does anyone know the exact time? The Communist News Network aka (CNN) has embarked on the largest "Bush Bashing" campaign that I have seen to date. Once again rhetoric takes precedence over facts!
That levee was breeched with the winds as the eyewall passed east of the lake.
They were there a day or two before the flooding to ride out the storm.
You got that right. So far the media as a WHOLE has been as much a disaster as the hurricane.
It make me sick that these reporters who are finding themselves food, water, and a place to place their heads, are NOT themselves helping to do the same for all these suffering people.
A couple of links here about the breaches, not sure it's what you're looking for, these are from Aug 30.
FLASH: New Orleans mayor says attempt to plug breach has failed...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473777/posts
Mayor: Major Breach Flooding and Destroying New Orleans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473256/posts
the 17th Street Canal, whose levee was breached Monday morning
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202226.html
Shep Smith did the same.
You are correct, he was saying before the hurricane ever hit that NO most likely dodge the bullet.
Talk about grandstanding freaks. Amazing how in a place of utter destruction the reporter class appears so pristine.
Thanks! It appears there is a momentous effort by the liberal media to find the local LA and New Orleans democRats without fault!
Whorealdo...
One of my funniest recollections of this man was when he was reporting from Afghanistan, deep in the field. There he was, lights on him with US soldiers in a wide circle at the edge of the darkness surrounding him, facing outwards.
"My Military friends here tell me that they would not normally allow the lights to be on at night, but for me they made an exception" he beams proudly.
In unison, silently, the troops are whispering to the Afghan warriors on the surrounding ridges..."Shoot...shoot now!!!"
That's because they weren't listening to the people that warned that if the storm was to the east of NO that it could cause catastrophic damage to the levee system and massive flooding. I heard that on Sunday. The hurricane hit on Monday morning. The French quarter was pretty much dry right after the storm. So when did it break? It had to be sometime Monday evening or during the night.
I heard about that one. We cannot expect the liberal class to ever take responsibility for what their system of governance has created.
We can however, possibly show these people that we conservatives are NOT their enemy. They are no longer walled in, shielded from what they can be, free individuals.
We conservatives need not recoil at the poison of the liberal accusers, rather reach around the broken wall and say here is how you can help yourself.
It happend the night the hurricane came through. Flooding takes time.
What happend was that the winds from the north raised the level of the lake erroded the levee and made it break.
This has always been the scenerio that people talked about beyond the Cat 5 Direct hit that pushed storm surge up the Mississipi river.
Just the facts please!
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