Earwitness: explosives blew Industrial Canal levee

2005-09-15

Richard Moore

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VIDEO: Earwitness: explosives blew Industrial Canal levee 
September 13, 2005 
ABC  TV  and  total411.info 

Total411.info has obtained video of an ABC News report
featuring an earwitness to explosives used to destroy the
Industrial Canal in New Orleans.

Here's the video: http://www.total411.info/leveeboom.rm

and here's the transcript: 

DAVID MUIR, ABC NEWS: This is the actual levee that runs along
the canal on the eastern side of the city. And when the
hurricane hit, the water came through at such force, it was
apparently too much. You can see the massive breach here, and
when you look around the corner you can see what the water did
to the Lower Ninth Ward. It completley destroyed
neighborhoods.

JOE EDWARDS, JR., 9TH WARD RESIDENT: I heard something go
BOOM!

MUIR: Joe Edwards rushed to get himself and as many neighbors
as possible into his truck. They drove to this bridge, where
they've been living ever since

EDWARDS: My house broke in half. My mother's house just
disintegrated. It was a brick house. All the houses down there
floated down the street like somebody's guiding 'em

MUIR: Was it solely the water that broke the levee, or was it
the force of this barge that now sits where homes once did?
Joe Edwards says neither. People are so bitter, so
disenfranchised in this neighborhood, they actually think the
city did it, blowing up the levee to save richer neighborhoods
like the French Quarter.

MUIR: So you're convinced . . .

EDWARDS: I know this happened!

MUIR: . . . they broke the levee on purpose?

EDWARDS: They blew it!

MUIR: New Orleans' mayor says there's no credence to this.

NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN: That storm was so powerful and it
pushed so much water, there's no way anyone could have
calculated what levee to dynamite to have the kind of impact
to save the French Quarter.

MUIR: An LSU expert who looked at the video today says, while
the barge may have caused it, it was most likely the sheer
force of the water that brought the levee along the Lower
Ninth Ward down.

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