There was a short news report on last night with the Corps of Engineers saying they are going to repair those parts of the levee. We'll have to wait and see if it does actually happen.

Some history here of saving the city of New Orleans. There is a man made canal called the MRGO that is a shortcut made from the Mississppi River near the Gulf. It divides St. bernard Parish and the 9th Ward from the City of New Orleans (Bourbon St., Jackson Square, the tourist section of the city). This MRGO is like a funnel that brings the surge of water from a storm right up it that overflows if a large storm, if a small storm it is okay. But a federal law has been passed in early 2006 that makes St Bernard Parish and the 9th Ward a spillway, which mean they will bomb the levees to save the city. In 1927 that is what happened to save the city. Then in 1969, during Hurricane Betsy, the same thing was done. For Katrina barges were left along this part of the MRGO and not moved all along the MRGO. There was a woman who lived in the 9th ward that my brother ran across in the escape from the high waters at the evacuation shelter that said she watched from her second story window the barges banging against the levee wall until it broke through. That water came in from the MRGO and flooded immediatly the 9th Ward. The barges left under the Paris Road Bridge broke through the levees there and the surge also overtopped the levees in that area. Everyone that lives in the 9th ward and St. Bernard Parish nows damn well this was done on purpose. There were many rumors after the storm that the Corps Of Engineers blew the levees. But i think it was the barges left that broke through. There are pictures online you can find of a barge sitting right on top of where homes use to be in the 9th ward.

And if we get any storm, even a catagory 1 storm. We will be under a mandatory warning to evacuate cause of the federal law to blow the levees to save the city.

Right after the storm happened we were told by the federal government and President Bush who stood in front of the St Louis Cathedral and told our region we have nothing to worry about. That we will rebuilt with the 100 year levees. There was 2,000,000 dollars alotted to rebuild the levees along the MRGO and we are still waiting for that to be done.

We were lied to. And we believed these to be truths. So we came back and rebuilt. But i can tell you, all of those who came back in St. bernard and 9th ward regret coming back. we are destined to be punished and wiped off this earth if another storm is to hit us.

Just a little truth to what has happened down here. Not what you hear from the federal govt. or the media.