[not2worry]

Well, the Corp of Engineers need to educate the public on how levee system work and if they are not maintained they deteriorate and when you combine ground water underneath with water pushing surge you create what they call sand boils. These sand boils effectively erode the levee from the underside, not the top. It's more complicated than that so maybe someone else could give us the technical aspects of this.

Levees can be purposely broken, but in this case I think the press would have caught it on tape and if the levee system were computerized they would have known of any tampering along the system.

I know in our area with the first signs of a flood, our levee systems are monitored and the local and State police and if necessary the National Guard is called out to guard the levee from any kind of man-made acts of terror against the levee system. But then again, we have a responsible government local and state wise, but our community is proactive when such events are possible.

[rineaux]

but our community is proactive when such events are possible

we would be asking to much for those to be proactive. it would start with leadership, something new orleans has lacked for about 25 plus years.

the Corp could have all the video of every square inch of breached section of the wall(s) proving no one tampered with it, we would still have that same number of people believe the goverment did do it.

If, as someone said, a loose barge hit it (not to get into pressure or sand boils after impact) they would think W intentionally sent the barge(s) to do so.

I did read, cannot remember where, a witness did see a barge hit the side of the levee. Another person said it sounded like an "explosion". A lot of people have run with the explosion theroy. Louis Farakan said brought it up in a few centers he visited and some Air America nitwits echoed it.

So no matter what, you will not be able to change a mind set of someone who does not have a mind of their own.