Couple Claims Levee was Blown

New Orleans residents david And Dixie Gonzalez Claim Levee At 9th Ward was Blown.
New Orleans Levees
Were Blown In 1927
Were They Blown in 2005?

1927

Extracts from Another Flood That Stunned America

For days, the rain fell. The rivers swelled, the lakes rose. And when the water could no longer find a place to go, it battered the weakest parts of the levees that had protected thousands of people and blew through, sending a surge of white-capped brown water faster than the spill of Niagara Falls.

So began the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most catastrophic deluge ever to hit the South and one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

The seminal event of pre-integration southern politics, the 1927 flood inundated an area about half the size of New England. It killed as many as 1,000 people and displaced about 700,000 more. At a time when the entire federal budget was barely $3 billion, it caused an estimated $1 billion in damage.

When the rains broke records in April 1927, the Gulf of Mexico was full and worked as a stopper to the Mississippi. The Mississippi was full, too, pushing its own waters up tributaries, breaking levees and causing flooding as far as Ohio and Texas. All that water had to go somewhere.

It couldn't go to New Orleans, panicky city fathers told the Army Corps of Engineers; it would devastate the regional economy.

To save New Orleans, the leaders proposed a radical plan. South of the city, the population was mostly rural and poor. The leaders appealed to the federal government to essentially sacrifice those parishes by blowing up an earthen levee and diverting the water to marshland. They promised restitution to people who would lose their homes. Government officials, including Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, signed off.

On April 29, the levee at Caernarvon, 13 miles south of New Orleans, succumbed to 39 tons of dynamite. The river rushed through at 250,000 cubic feet per second. New Orleans was saved, but the misery of the flooded parishes had only started. The city fathers took years to make good on their promises, and very few residents ever saw any compensation at all.

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[BLESSEDone333]

by the way - your channel page says:

Occupation: Pissing People Off

Interests and Hobbies: Pissing People Off

Yeah - your own words breed foolishness

yet you want to be taken seriously? Yikes

get a haircut and get a real job

[AmericaUndercover]

@BLESSEDone333 awwww your account has been closed hahahahaha

[shananciole15]

who the fuck does this blessedone333 think he is? Don't even try and impose your religious beliefs on anyone other than yourself. No one cares.

As to discredit someone because they have bad teeth and are poor...well that's just nonsense and it's no wonder our society is in the state it is in with people like yourself free to roam and shoot shit from your mouth. FUCK YOU BLESSEDONE333. You make me sick.

[700bees]

Wow this is amazing. I'm a 9/11 truther and it never even crossed my mind that they would have blown the levee.. great journalism.

[mkdelux]

And I saw Godzilla destroy japan

[420bailey]

Question, Helicopters?? Have you seen a helicopter fly in a hurricane?? Tell me can you find Elvis, in a helicopter, in a hurricane? I'm gonna call B.S. on these two.

[DigitalPraise7]

@BLESSEDone333 "If you trust actors like they are "gods" then I pity you." Actually, that is the purpose of acting-to get worship.

[Ashmansworth]

@DuBarryFilms

Thanks for taking note of my posting from year ago!

Iv'e found out since the reason why levee was blown.

satisfied? no,

Why did the city let its infrastucture fall into ruin?

[DuBarryFilms]

@Ashmansworth satisfied now?

[DuBarryFilms]

@allid235 LIAR..you must be one of the murderers..at least by act-

[DuBarryFilms]

@BLESSEDone333 WHAT an ass! You try living in 3rd world conditions..hopefully by now you got your karma!  Thanks for helping the genocide go unnoticed-dork

[allid235]

I will NEVER believe the levees were blown. I was here for Katrina and this is bullshit. Now they're calling Bush a murderer? Sounds like a lawsuit to me!

[SaintWicked721]

The Federal government.

Isolation of poor people. Fearmongering, and starvation. To kill poor people.