"If you look at the pictures that was posted on another thread (pulled for some reason) you see that two major levies --one was 17th street -- the first one to go; and the other Filmore Street iver the London Ave, Canal --were under construction and depending on sand bags to hold bag any potential hurricane surges for the near future...
In addition near the Louis Armstrong Airport there was ten miles of incomplete levees from the Bonnet Carre Spillway -- five miles from Lake Ponchartrain; a 5-10 foot wall of sandbags along the Airline Drive to the Mississippi Rver levee near the airport; another 60 miles o flevees that needed to be raised and were years away from completion; computer models said that the low levee from Monticello Ave in Jefferson Parish near the city's water plant was a likely spot for a major flood to enter the city.
With this information in hand the fact they didn't call a mandatory evacuation -- or face arrest -- is terrible."
--If these matters can be attributed to federal cutbacks under Bush, he's in trouble.
Congress spends the money.