[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.

[Excuse_Me]

Well, your link went nowhere, but I checked and the T-P does say it was late Monday morning. The 3 a.m. timeline I got from a post here a week or so back that quoted Knight-Ritter reporting about a National Guard Timeline stating 3 a.m. Here is a link to the Knight-Ritter article:

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/special_packages/press_refers/12606937.htm

The late Monday morning timeframe does seem to make more sense.