Hurricane Hanna likely did not knock down Trump border wall, feds say. Here's what we know

[TexasTowelie]

AUSTIN — A video gone viral Sunday said to show a section of the border fence being blown down by Hurricane Hanna was likely taken a month before the storm slammed the South Texas Coast, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Monday.

"The video circulating on social media appears to be from June 2020 when high winds caused several border wall panels that were pending additional anchoring to fall over at a construction site near Deming, New Mexico," the federal agency said in a statement. "That project is funded by the Department of Defense using 2808 Military Construction Funds, so any questions regarding the incident should be directed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The video, posted Sunday and now deleted, quickly caught the attention of CBP officials.

Roderick Kise, a spokesman for the agency in the Rio Grande Valley, said he had received "seven or eight" media inquiries about the tweet from a journalist in Mexico showing a 39-second clip of workers in vests and hard hats watching a section of the fence being knocked over by high winds.

But it did not ring true, he said.

"The hurricane hit us at nighttime, but looks like it was shot during the day," Kise said in an interview.

Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2020/07/26/hurricane-hanna-trump-border-wall-damage-rio-grande-valley-texas/5516199002/

[msongs]

1. hurricanes are wet. that video was a dry dust storm nt

[soothsayer]

2. Aww too bad

[Midnight Writer]

3. OK, so it was not hurricane wind that knocked it down, just regular wind.

[Javaman]

4. +1 nt

[LeftInTX]

5. They were installing it at the time and the panels were not anchored

looks like it was a freak storm in Deming, New Mexico