Question: Anyone recall exactly when we DUers knew of levee break?

I know it was sometime Monday morning but can't recall if it was very early or ...mid-morning. Search is off right now, so ...

IIRC

Brian Williams called it an alarming overnight development. I remember wondering how bad it could get.

I can't do an advance search right now, so I wanted to find out exactly when each levee broke. Another example of great minds thinking alike, LOL!! (There were two levee breaks, right!)

:headbang:
rocknation

Just checked the email I forwarded to friends with the info and link to Roy Nagin's first appearance on WWL. Was sent at 8/30/05 at 2:03 A.M.

I'm including the link to that first appearance that is dated 8/29/05.

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.wwltv.com/082905mayor.wmv

It is so sad to go back and hear this. He's still confident that the Federal Government is going to come in and help at this point.

maybe google will confirm
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I first saw the WWL link late in the evening.

I don't know what time he was actually on WWL and even with that by the time he was on WWL the city was completely flooded. So the levee had to have broken some time before he was on there.

early AM monday around 9AM EST - they said two levees had broken at that time.

on reflection... maybe monday was the day the water started to overflow..

it would happen when I was here on DU last Sunday. So much data was coming in here, there were so many pertinent links. I am very proud to contribute to this site!

morning from a coworker.

Was on CNN, an administrator at Tulane Hospital called in.

Monday Aug-29-05 11:29 PM CNN reports breech in Levee

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1736525


Tuesday at 6PM efforts to stem breech failed:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1738491

Tuesday morning, on DU.

it sunk.

It showed up again very early Tuesday morning.

This is different from the first confirmed reports of levee breaking: that was Monday night at around 11:30 pm. The reports became more widespread later that night, i.e., early Tuesday morning. DU was in lockstep with those reports.

One tv station reported at 11:28 am Monday, a full 12 hours earlier, that the levee had broken. They were roundly ignored by all concerned, and no confirmations followed from anybody. It even didn't make a splash on that station's web announcements after that. This may have resulted from storm surge, or it may have indeed been a levee failure: whoever reported it needs to be contacted for confirmation.

The same tv station cited rumors at around 9:30 am Monday that the levee had broken.