Sad time for all of America. Do not let them rewrite history for you, Homeland security and FEMA are blaming local authorities at every turn
"Well, I think if you look at what actually happened, I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, "New Orleans Dodged The Bullet," because if you recall the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse. It was on Tuesday that the levee--may have been overnight Monday to Tuesday--that the levee started to break. And it was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap and that essentially the lake was going to start to drain into the city."
I have listed many instances where the Times Picayune reported levee topping a breaches as early as Monday morning. This misdirection is either sheer incompetence or more likely a way to support the "2 seperate catastrophies no one could have predicted" lie.
From the times Picayune
St. Bernard flooding update
Monday, 4 p.m.
Official postings on the St. Bernard government Web site about flooding in the parish:
At 11:00 a.m. , the National Weather Service reported that a levee broke
on the Industrial Canal - the waterway that connects the Mississippi River to the Intracoastal Waterway - near the St. Bernard-Orleans parish line at
Tennessee Street, and 3 to 10 feet of flooding was possible with Arabi
receiving some degree of rising water.
Bucktown surge hits Mid-City hospital
Monday, 4:20 p.m.
Several hours after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans on Monday, the basement at Lindy Boggs Medical Center started taking on water, said George Saucier, the Mid-City hospital's CEO.
The mini-flood at North Jefferson Davis Parkway and Bienville Street, which he described as an annoyance, probably was a chain-reaction result of a break in the levee along the 17th Street Canal, which separates Orleans and Jefferson parishes, Saucier said.
St. Bernard update 10:45 a.m.
On the north side of Judge Perez Drive, waters had risen as
high as 10 feet, he said. Boasso, who lives in
Chalmette, said he has been in touch with Council
Chairman Joey DiFatta.
People who sought last-minute refuge at Chalmette High
School were huddling in the hallways after windows
were blown out, said Boasso, who added that the
building had sustained some structural damage. The
roof of the Civic Auditorium was blown off, he said.
Boasso said extensive
flooding in the Lower 9th Board and St. Bernard Parish
could be blamed on water going over the tops of the
levees.