> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed
10 September 2005, 00:10
The canal levee was concrete several feet thick. It was rammed well after the class 2 storm hit by a grain barge. When the canal levee broke, the levee was blown near the 9th ward to divert the flow away from the quarter and, more importantly, the gated community of Audobon Place, a section of the city near the Garden District replete with personal helipads that still has running water and sewage.
This is nothing new. Read the history of the 1927 flood and see how the bankers blew the river levees to protect New Orleans and then later completely reneged on written contracts to rebuild the devistated Cajun and Black parishes. They controlled the courts and nullified all agreements to compensate.
The canal levee was concrete several feet thick. It was rammed well after the class 2 storm hit by a grain barge. When the canal levee broke, the levee was blown near the 9th ward to divert the flow away from the quarter and, more importantly, the gated community of Audobon Place, a section of the city near the Garden District replete with personal helipads that still has running water and sewage.
This is nothing new. Read the history of the 1927 flood and see how the bankers blew the river levees to protect New Orleans and then later completely reneged on written contracts to rebuild the devistated Cajun and Black parishes. They controlled the courts and nullified all agreements to compensate.
The past is Prologue.