Did barges cause the floodwall breaches?
Tags: levees, 17th street canal, floodwalls, mrgoThere are several pictures of a barge that ran into a levee here. Note that those are on the Mississippi River side of things, and apparently no flooding was caused by those barges. Here's an aerial shot.
However, a commentor at a previous post of his site had this to say:
I've been speaking with some evacuees that have been transplanted in my community and they say that there is a RUMOUR, and I do mean RUMOUR, that Beau Brothers Construction had some barges near the levees that were not tied properly; and as a result they banged against the walls and weakened them during the storm. I don't know anything more about it than what I just posted.
