There were several on TV that heard a blast. It will be intersting to see what happened. I really don't think Nagin had his act together good enough to do something that required that much foresight.
Yeah, they heard a blast all right.
Hundred or thousand ton barges don't pierce 200 feet of yards thick concrete quietly.
The NWS released a Flood Warning at 0814 Monday morning as Katrina came ashore, noting the report that a barge had breached a levee.
The Kenner cops closed shop and hunkered down at 0400 that same morning, for the simple reason that human beings don't walk around in hundred and forty mile an hour winds.
They fly.
I've been very close to loosing my footing at winds below 70 mph, propped up on crampons and a pair of ski poles and braced.
Any demolition teams that were out between 0700 and 0900 Monday morning fooling around with the levees are now in northern Mississippi, impaled on trees.