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Comment: please research the rumor that levees in New Orleans were blown
up during Hurricane Katrina which occurred August 29, 2005. The 10th anniversary is a few months away and the rumor still circulates. |
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So the claim is that the levees failed due to planted explosives?
Wouldn't that be kind of obvious? |
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It should be "obvious" that the WTC was brought down by planted explosives, and yet people are still denying it.
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Probably not so obvious after the water went rushing through the hole made by the explosive. However, the reports done by the Corp of Engineers found no evidence of deliberate damage and did find evidence of poor construction, design and maintenance. I don't have a cite at the moment but am instead going by memory from reading the newspapers in the year or so afterwards.
ETA: Here is one cite. There were several found by searching on the terms Katrina levee failure cause. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...092001894.html |
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I may have found a possible source behind this idea in past events. I was doing research for a mid-term paper in my tsunami class(and storm surges) and found this while researching the NOLA levee system.
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/projects/...eport/CH_4.pdf Quote:
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When I lived in Greenville Mississippi, one of the apartments I lived in was inside the 1936 levees. This could have been very wet but it was actually built on top of the 1927 levee. I don't remember the author but he was famous, at least locally. He wrote of patrolling the levees during flood stages to watch for someone trying to dynamite the levee.
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Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy
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This is one of those "I hate George Bush" rumors like the 9/11 conspiracy theories. Then the right retaliated by the "Obama wasn't born in the US". Usually conspiracy theories come from political motives - you don't like the party in power and it isn't enough for them just to be doing a poor job. They have to be evil and up to huge hidden plots. As the person's power goes on those imaginary plots get bigger.
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