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The industrial canal breach on August 31
Published on September 7, 2005 By historyishere In Current Events
As I blogged on Friday, an evacuatee from New Orleans reported that a barge had breached the 17th Street levee canal, which led to much speculation both here and on other sites. Within the past few days, a couple more reports have mentioned a barge being involved in a breach of not the 17th Street levee but the Industrial Canal levee, though no photographic evidence of such an event was available.

Until today that is.



This image has been both cropped and reduced in both size and quality for this entry. However, you can look at the original by going through the link at the bottom of this entry. It is a rather large picture of the area taken on August 31, so it will take time for it to display.

While it isn't conclusive proof that said barge breached that levee, it does lend a bit more weight to that theory. And again, I am willing to concede that there may be other explanations for what is shown in this picture.

The whole picture:

Comments
on Sep 07, 2005
Cool photo, it looks like it came from that port area on the left side. I had no idea they had locks in the canal and used that area for shipping, but it makes sense.
on Sep 08, 2005
Who cares if the barge hit the levee it was the high winds that caused it to drift if it indeed it did drift. Stop all this name calling and blame bull and take care of the people of that area they need our help now fix all the mess of whos fault or what caused it later you cant undo the cause.
on Sep 08, 2005
Stop all this name calling and blame bull


Ok, who am I calling names and blaming?
on Sep 08, 2005
It's Bush's fault.
on Sep 08, 2005
The jumbled up rooftops all over the place in that picture are what struck me - there'll be no rebuilding there until the entire area is bulldozed. It just boggles the mind.

Cheers,
Daiwa