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I heard a radio interview with the actor/comedien Steve Harvey in which he told the interviewer that in his visits with evacuees he met an elderly gentleman who told him that he lived right next to the levee (Sorry I can't remember what location of the levee) and that a grain barge hit the levee and that's what caused the levee to break and that within a matter of three or four minutes his house was filled with water. The interviewer asked Steve Harvey a little more about the grain barge - you know, like "Were they cut loose by the storm, " etc., and Steve just said, "I don't know. I'm only telling you what one man told me he witnessed."
I really have not seen this covered at all in the news. Have any of you? I started trying to check on line about it, but can only find that there people discussing it on other blogs, but nothing in MSM. On one of the blogs someone said that there was footage of barges sitting on top of the levee.
Someone with a little more knowledge here might be able to shed some light on this for me. But is it a possibility that the storm really didn't cause the levee break - but loose grain barges did. Maybe the levee actually did hold back the water and did withstand the hurricane forces, but then got pounded by a barge?
I really have not seen this covered at all in the news. Have any of you? I started trying to check on line about it, but can only find that there people discussing it on other blogs, but nothing in MSM. On one of the blogs someone said that there was footage of barges sitting on top of the levee.
Someone with a little more knowledge here might be able to shed some light on this for me. But is it a possibility that the storm really didn't cause the levee break - but loose grain barges did. Maybe the levee actually did hold back the water and did withstand the hurricane forces, but then got pounded by a barge?