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Topic started on 8-9-2005 @ 12:32 AM by Rise and Fall
Ok, I'm so stunned at this one that I need other interpretations of this. Here are two articles, one printed at NOLA/The Times Picayune, right before the hurricane hit, Sunday, August 28, 2005 , and one from The Guardian, which seems as trustworthy as any paper that I know of, on 9-4-05 .
Ok, here goes. Just copying tidbits, but here are links too. The bold is just me, freaking out.
From NOLA
"Levee board officials around the area closed or prepared to close floodgates to protect low-lying areas. The Orleans Parish Levee District said it would close floodgates and sever Louisiana 11 and U.S. 90 at today at 6 p.m., cutting that route to or from the city. Most other floodgates already were closed. "
NOLA article
actually, that whole article is really interesting in retrospect. So, they shut off evac routes, before the storm even hit.

And here's what I don't understand.
This is from The Guardian, and it's written about like it is common knowledge.
"Williams only left his apartment after the authorities took the decision to flood his district in an apparent attempt to sluice out some of the water that had submerged a neighbouring district. Like hundreds of others he had heard the news of the decision to flood his district on the radio. The authorities had given people in the district until 5pm on Tuesday to get out - after that they would open the floodgates.

'We thought we could live without electricity for a few weeks because we had food. But then they told us they were opening the floodgates,' said Arineatta Walker, who fled the area with her daughter and two grandchildren.

'So about two o'clock we went on to the streets and we asked the army, "Where can we go?". And they said, "Just take off because there's no one going to come back for you." They kicked my family out of there. If I knew how to hotwire a car I would have,' Walker said." observer.guardian.co.uk...

Has anyone known that the flooding of the desperately poor 9th ward area was purposeful? Can this be true? Or am I reading this wrong? Was the army there already on Tuesday? So confused.


reply posted on 8-9-2005 @ 11:21 PM by Rise and Fall
I've been hearing stories about residents reporting explosions from the levees too, that they thought they were hearing bombs. I've also been reading about the possibility that a loose barge busted through the floodwall- could be. The the main thing that struck me though, was the fellow saying that he'd heard on the radio that the floodgates were being opened- is anyone here from that area, or knows what radio station might have been broadcasting at that time in the area? I would love to try to track that down- if there was a public announcement that the area was to be flooded to relieve flooding elsewhere, we should be able to find that. Disturbing as it is, it is possible that that was a decision made by city/state/fed officials, in order to keep the city's tax base (French Quarter, CBD, Garden District) safe. Once again, the main, horrifying question is why was there not (at least then!) a concerted effort at assisting with the 'mandatory' evacuation? These people had no cars! They knew that thousands had no way out! They even had closed the evacuation routes. There are not words to describe this travesty, this failure.
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