There were reports out of New Orleans that local authorities intentionally blew up a section of the levee to save the French Quarter and homes in wealthy neighborhoods. One must believe the witnesses who were there and heard the blast.
Someone needs to explain "how" blowing up a section of levee could "save the French quarter and homes in wealthy neighborhoods", since the French Quarter is on the highest land in the city, as are many of the oldest homes and "wealthiest" neighborhoods, and many OTHER wealthy neighborhoods are right along Lake Ponchartrain in the lowest part of the city.
Yeah.........sure. They just happened to have an azzload of explosives lying about.
There were several on TV that heard a blast. It will be intersting to see what happened. I really don't think Nagin had his act together good enough to do something that required that much foresight.
So we're supposed to just accept these 'reports' as true?
The mayor said there would be 10,000 dead. It was 'reported'. That didn't make it true.
Someone said that cannibalism was occurring within days of the flooding. It was 'reported'. That didn't make it true.
Sorry, it's going to take a bit more than anonymous 'reports' to convince me that it happened.
You mean one of those highly skilled and totally devoted members of the NOPD?
Or Nagin?
Yeah, it takes months to plan, hundreds of men and man hours, plus dyanamite that is not wet, just to demolish a building.
Without knowing that they were being deluged by a triangle of wave fronts, how would blowing a levee anywhere possibly save anything?
I haven't actually heard any witnesses who were there and heard the blast. Only FOAF, aka hearsay testimony quoted by people like Louis Farrakhan.
In the middle of a hurricane, when wind is howling and storm waters are rising, and it's NOISY, someone went out and blew a levee to protect an area of the city that didn't need protecting against floods cause it was high enough not to to get serious flooding?
Blowing up a levee is not an easy job. Blowing it up during a hurricane wouldn't be easy.
The word went out about that levee breech at least by 8:30 in the morning of the storm, cause a blogger who was live blogging mentions it at this time...
http://neworleans.metblogs.com/archives/2005/08/levee_breech.phtml
I live there, you're either extremely ullible, or,, ,well......