California burning!

Let me quickly ask the question: will FEMA quickly help the distraught there?
It is obvious that several thousand people will be out of a home.
Has FEMA prepared for another semi-major catastrophe since the experience of New Orleans?
Will they be able to house these people and give them temporary life-saving food.
How about transportation for those who lost their vehicles? How about schools and all the ramifications of that?
Will there be a way there to re-build homes and essential other items--which was not done in New Orleans?
How much should California do?
For you conservative republicans and libertarians--how much should their home towns or counties do, and how much should each individual do without any help?
That is not a political question, the problems exist today!
Will they just bring bottled water, some compounded generators, and some trailers with nowhere to park them and water and sewer them and electrify them?
This is an infrastructure item, and I am willing to bet that nothing significant has been done since New Orleans! War is the only priority currently, or at least the only thing our government is capable of handling at once.
Leadership is all that has been lacking for seven years.

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Submitted by bad_ptc on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:16pm.

Will FEMA quickly help the distraught there?
Yes.

Has FEMA prepared for another semi-major catastrophe since the experience of New Orleans?
Yes.

Will they be able to house these people and give them temporary life-saving food.
Yes.

How about transportation for those who lost their vehicles?
No, not their function.

How about schools and all the ramifications of that?
There is State and Federal money available for re-building schools. Other schools that weren’t affected will also take up the displaced.

Will there be a way there to re-build homes and essential other items--which was not done in New Orleans?
Yes.

How much should California do?
All it can.

For you conservative republicans and libertarians--how much should their home towns or counties do, and how much should each individual do without any help?
All that they can.

Will they just bring bottled water, some compounded generators, and some trailers with nowhere to park them and water and sewer them and electrify them?
No, because the infrastructure is still intact. San Diego’s not under 30 feet of water! It wasn’t built on a swamp or a reclaimed river delta. They won’t need boats and houses won’t be in the middle of the street or down the block.

Unlike in New Orleans people are getting out of the way of the disaster as they have been instructed to do by the local governments. They’re not lingering around to see which house they can break into before they go off to the liquor store and rob it too.

What you didn’t ask is why in San Diego and not New Orleans?
Because people work and pay taxes in San Diego!

Oh and don’t forget that the locals aren’t shooting at the rescue volunteers and pillaging all the booze and TV’s they swim with, or can’t as the case may be.

Warning: Contrary to popular belief, full beer and liquor bottles don’t float and should not be used as a life saving device in case of flooding!


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bad_ptc- correct, sir!
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Submitted by gratefuldoc on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 11:42am.

You are correct, sir.........correct, right and triple correct! Let's just hope and pray that all San Diegans and Los Angelenos are safe and get the help they need. Why is it that the people in Cal. are doing as they should and the people of La. and NO did not? It's not just that the people in SD work and pay taxes.... I mean some in NO do, or did, don't they?


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Why depend on FEMA??
Submitted by Aztec.Chick on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 7:23pm.

It looks to me that the fire victims in southern CA don't demand or depend on help from the government like those in NOLA do. There is no rioting, looting, or raping going on at Qualcomm. The police officers and firefighters don't have to worry about being shot at or stabbed while trying to protect their own fellow citizens, unlike at the Superdome. Police officers, firefighters, docs, and nurses are watching their own homes go up in flames and continue to take care of others. People are taking care of each other, being resourceful, obeying the law, and least of all not blaming someone else for their tragedy.

NOLA could learn a lot from San Diego.

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Aztec: FEMA in California
Submitted by Nitpickers on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 8:42pm.

I can't defend the NOLA citizens who broke the law; I suspect there will be considerable theft in California also--that is why the Guard is being sent in.
As to the football stadium in California and the one in NOLA, the one in California isn't surrounded by water and hasn't been denied food and water and sanitation as of yet, as was NOLA.
Also tons of food, diapers, etc., have been given to the refugees in California by businesses, but that won't last long.
Where are they going to sleep, eat, etc., two weeks from now?
We already subsidize the premiums on those million dollar houses which continue to burn down, slide off, and blow away, year after year. Sometime, I think we need to say: "build somewhere else! Just as we have done in NOLA.

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Nitpickers,Most of the
Submitted by Charity Rider on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:42pm.

Nitpickers,

Most of the National Guard troops are being sent to California as front line Firefighters, not to patrol the streets in armored vehicles. Also, the state and local governments as not nearly as inept as those of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.

Californians have been through this before and will survive and overcome this disaster. There is a reason that California happens to be the worlds 8th largest economy.

Not everyone has one of those "million dollar homes" you mention. Nor are these homes located in the areas you would think a brush fire would be. I know, DW and I were close to losing our home during the 2003 fires in San Diego. Very small house in a working class neighborhood that was nowhere near a 'wildland' area.

It's apparent you don't know much about fires, fire weather or California. I'm well versed on all three; being a California native, firefighter for several agencies and wildfire training officer in California for many years prior to moving to Georgia.

Also, the level of devastaion from Katrina was far and above what anyone had ever seen before. There was absolutely no way that any agency was prepared for that. The system was overwhelmed and collapsed. Sadly, it still hasn't got back up.

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Submitted by hutch866 on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:06pm.

it's all burning up out there what is left to steal, they going to loot the charcoal?

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Hey $$,
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Submitted by Cyclist on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:02pm.

There is no comparison. As you pointed out, this has happened before and has never sunk to the level of New Orleans. I'm waiting for Oprah to do her story. Ha!!!!
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