Just Noticing...

To those commenters to my earlier posts who speculated that the Katrina delay was due to the "fact" that you couldn't start repairing the breach until after the water levels had equalized, thus ending the flooding, today's repairs started while the water was still flowing out of the canal.
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That today, Saturday, one day after Rita's landfall caused a reopened breach in New Orleans' Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers was ready with 7000-pound sandbags to drop into the breach. Faster response, bigger sandbags, than the same agency was able to muster at the 17th St. Canal breach after Katrina. To those commenters to my earlier posts who speculated that the Katrina delay was due to the "fact" that you couldn't start repairing the breach until after the water levels had equalized, thus ending the flooding, today's repairs started while the water was still flowing out of the canal.

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