Holes?

Gustav, now a category four hurricane, has yet to reach the warmer waters of the Gulf Coast. As the hurricane passes through these warm waters, it will pick up in intensity and is currently expected to make landfall as a category four hurricane. Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama all have hurricane warnings and mandatory evacuations. Hurricane watches are in effect for portions of Texas and Florida.

In the mean time, mandatory evacuations have allowed New Orleans to create a contra-flow on all highways (all traffic flow goes in one direction) to get residents out. Mayor Nagin told CNN this morning that some of the levees in New Orleans were never completely fixed and those that were fixed have holes that were not plugged up.

Okay holes!? What were these people thinking? It's bad enough they tried to stop hurricane Katrina with sand bags, but now New Orleans has to face a possible category four hurricane with holes in their levees. Don't we live in America? We give billions of dollars in aid to other countires, but we can't afford to fix our own levees? Or is it that we didn't have enough time? Because I thought three years would have been plenty of time to fix the levees and even add more security measures. All we can do now is cross our fingers and pray.