AP retracts key element of Katrina story

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<p>They were talking about overflowing–not breeching the levees. Big difference.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/14015353.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_news[/url]”>http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/14015353.htm?source=rss&channel=thestate_news&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I don’t think the levee’s gave birth. They did breach.</p>

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<p>What’s the definition of a breach or breech?
I see it spelled both ways in reference to New Orleans levees.</p>

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<p>Breach: An opening, a tear, or a rupture. A gap or rift, especially in or as if in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.</p>

<p>You can also sue for breach of promise (when someone breaks a promise)</p>

<p>Breech: The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks. A breech presentation or delivery [in childbirth].</p>

<p>Breeches: Trousers extending down to or just below the knee.
“He’s too big for his breeches”</p>

<p>The only appropriate spelling in the case of the NO levees is “breach.”</p>

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<p>Immaterial. Overtopping will eventually lead to breaching. See my thread.</p>

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<p>Yet levees all around the city were overtoppe (as expected) but did not breach. Only the ones that have been shown to have been improperly engineered.</p>

<p>Now, that poor engineering wasn’t anticipated, and, as AP points out, no one discussed any overtopping would lead to a breach. Or if they did, they didn’t bring it up at the time.</p>

<p>So the uproar in response to the video is yet another tempest in a tea pot, that and the Dubai ports deal, which Hillary is rails publically against while Bill advises DP on how to get the deal approved.</p>