There is a lot more wrong with this story. How is a diver going to find a hand sized piece of concrete in that murky water? Not only does he find a piece, but in zero visibility, he can also recognize peculiar features on the rock that cause him to bring it to the surface. After all, this isn't the "clean" water from the canal he is swimming in, it is "town" water. (Is there anyone on this list that failed to notice that on all the coverage of the broken levees and scenes of repair work, water is flowing from the town side to the canal side!)
For a 10 lb piece of exposed concrete to lie unburied close to the levee break is nearly impossible. Here's a little personal experience with this kind of thing: I have a pond fed from an adjacent creek thru a 6" pipe. A one foot high dam backs up water to the pipe inlet. The dam is composed of ten tons of high density rip rap called Trap Rock in sizes up to 200 lbs each. Normally I can cross this creek without getting my ankles wet. During a really dry spell I have a bodily function that can exceed its flow rate. Last summer we had a large T-storm that raised the water level in the creek by nearly three feet. After the flood subsided, I was stunned to see that all $250 worth of Trap Rock were gone without a trace and that I had a three foot scoured out channel in its place. The story is bogus and Turner is nuts. Isn't it convenient that the only piece of evidence has been lost! Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "thomas malloy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:21 PM Subject: why the levee failed > According to this report the levee didn't fail, it exploded > www.halturnershow.com/DiversFindExplosiveResidueOnRupturedLevy.html > >
