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Listen, FYILib

I'm an engineer.

I do not need a diagram from Daily Kos to understand what happens to a concrete floodwall when a hurricane hits.

The media LIED when they replaced the word OVERTOPPED with BREACHED.

Anyone who says that overtopping equals breach is a liar or an idiot.

Any engineer, like myself, would tell you that.

Since you are likely an ignoramus on this, there is no hope that you would understand the difference.

I could go into bending moments, flow rate, water pressure per square inch, the weight of the concrete walls, the fact that the walls were straight up and down instead of wide at the base, the fact the generations of New Orleans Democrats used dirt filler instead of aggregate for the footing, and many more reasons for the failure.

Overtopping that could lead to a breach over time is not the same as an actual breach.

Overtopping was a regular occurrence in New Orleans during heavy storms and Hurricanes along with excessive flooding from the rainfall itself.

I've worked with these systems before. Primarily the pump stations the relieve the flooding within cities like New Orleans.

They MSM lying in FAKE news items that falsely replace the word 'breached' with 'overtopped' in order to push their FAKE News lines only work with the perpetually obtuse.

My sixth grade daughter has to do a "current events" project every Friday. The students have to find a current news article online and print it out, display it on some type of decorated background, and write a two sentence summary which can be anything related.

Last night, I told my daughter to look up the AP article and read it, then I showed her the clip of the video conference and played Mayfield's comments about over topping a couple of times for her to realize the words were different. She looked at me and said, "Daddy, what is the difference between over topping and breaching?" I explained it this way. If the flood walls were "over topped", the water could be pumped out. If the flood walls were "breached", the pumps are under at least 10 feet of water.

Her two sentences to summarize the AP article were crystal clear. She wrote something like this...

"The reporter lied because President Bush was only told that the levees could be over topped. Over topped means the water could be pumped out, but breached means that the pumps would be under water."

My little girl is going to make a fine Freeper one day. She even used bold to add emphasis to "over topped" and "breached" in her short comment.

"Anyone who says that overtopping equals breach is a liar or an idiot.

Any engineer, like myself, would tell you that."

Or anyone like me who lived most of his life within sight of a levee. You can bet we know the difference.