[Excuse_Me]

The 17th St. Canal flood wall collapsed at 3 a.m. Monday morning, August 29, about 4 hours before landfall.

[sefarkas]

I beg to disagree with your time line.

Federal officials have referred to the levee (another case of mistaken identity, but I digress) breaches as a separate and much later event from the flooding to the east, and said that they were unaware of the gravity of the problem until Tuesday, Aug. 30, suggesting valuable response time was lost.

Read the whole article.