Comments on: Local Officials: California Was Unprepared

County Fire Chief Says "It Is An Absolute Fact" That Aircraft Could Have Controlled Fires

[marcodele]

Robertkkk: I love to read the neocons'' posts of stereotypes large populations based on race. It only confirms my repulsion at every elitist self centered value you stand for. "The average New Orleanian..." wow, what a wise person you are to be able to just describe over two million people in just a couple sentences. What goes around comes around. Be prepared.

[roach9703]

The magnitude of the winds along with the very how relative humidities, created conditions far beyond the capacities of mere mortals.

[robertkjjj]

As a native SoCal person, I can attest there is a world of difference between San Diego people and New Orleans people. The majority of the San Diego people affected are employed, hardworking, taxpayers, and homeowners. Mostly educated, resourceful, intelligent, and well employed. The average house destroyed cost approx. $700,000. Yep, that is an average. The average Katrina-displaced New Orleans person was a renter, a non-college graduate, and on public assistance. The average San Diegan will call his insurance agent. The average N.O. person put his hand out and said "Where''s the government? Gimmee Gimmee Gimmee!" The average San Diegan will spend a few nights at a hotel or shelter or with friends, and then get back on his feet, go back to work, and solve his own problems. The average N.O. person is likely still sitting, today, on his porch or curb, waiting for the next welfare check. Don''t even compare these two populations, you will be wasting your time and energy.

[robertkjjj]

Snidegrass, is your post supposed to be English? All lower caps. No punctuation. No real train of thought. Sentence structure is all wrong. Just one long rambling sentence with 17 unconnected subjects. When I see posts like this, I fear for the future of our illiterate people. What a disgrace. Put away your bong and go back to school for a few years and re-take English 101, 102, 103, and 104 thru 999.

[hawksprings]

Give us a break, marcodele.

How many years did New Orleans have to prepare for a direct hit by a hurricane? 100? 200?
Katrina wasn''t even a direct hit, and only a Cat 3 when it hit.

Nagin and Blanco share PLENTY of the blame for the New Orlean Fiasco. You can''t lay it all on the Federal Govn''t or Bush.

Nagin is pathetic, and if New Orleans re-elected him, they deserve him.

[susanhelit]

mediapreacher - what, you thinking of Oregon or something? San Diego doesn''t have forests, let alone dense ones. We have scrubbrush. These homes aren''t burning in the middle of some forest you imagine -nor are they on some cliff. They''re on nice flat land, normal town, and the surrounding land is just scrubbrush - the usual in San Diego. Malibu is only one small neighborhood, and I''m not talking about them - but rather about the other million people threatened by this.

We aren''t talking about idiots building their homes on known floodplains, or under sea level, or whatever - this is an unprecedented disaster, and it''s not caused by stupid building, it''s caused by environmental factors that we''ve never seen before - very hot weather, very dry weather (abnormally so), and an abnormally long and strong Santa Ana.

[marcodele]

Tburzio: You don''t know what you''re talking about in reference to New Orleans. It had nothing to do with union drivers to drive busses or Democrats or partisan politics. A large majority of the people who died were elderly and stayed in their homes despite warnings. Also, the storm was forecast to hit 90 miles from New Orleans in Biloxi which is basically where it landed. Also, the damage in New Orleans was caused by FEDERAL levees that failed to meet their own standards and were paid for by every taxpayer in this country. And yes, Bush did receive a lot of blame for the response the flood caused by the Army Corps of Engineers, because his head of FEMA Michael Brown was a trustfunder friend of his whose sole experience was raising Arabian horses. We could get water to the Tsunami victims in Indonesia within ten hours, but we couldn''t get water to the people in the Dome or Convention Center within five days? That had nothing to do with busses. Save your Democrat bashing for a subject you know a little more about.

[tburzio]

The response in San Diego has been extraordinary fantastic! Leave our guys alone! Nagan let those people die in the dome because he couldn''t find Union drivers to man the city buses. When Democrat HQ found out he was to blame, they and the news media twisted the story to blame Bush. Shame on you!

[hypnotoad72]

Every year they seem to have big fires; usually caused by some ding-a-ling treating the roadside like a big ashtray, or some petty little arsonist who thinks it''s a funny thing to do.

[mediapreachr]

Guess what,I want to get a house with a view so I will build inside a dense forest,or even better-at the edge of the ocean right on the shifting sand.
Half of the blame should go to the used car sales men posing as real estate agents,who pushed all this to gullible folk.

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by cryonbrian at 03:06 PM : Oct 24, 2007
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funny you said that..both cities are predominantly liberal..both get this ''disaster'' every year..both are run by an incompetent liberal..you are right..KARMA served the right.

[wheelofvoter]

The US Forestry Planes seem to be few and far between.

[newmar3]

Why do you expect the rest of the country to cover your losses, when all you have to do is move. Fires, rain, mudslides, and earthquakes are the norm. If you don''t like it, get out of there and quit complaining.

[tnt1954]

they cried Y2K and you laughed and laughed as
some got prepared for it. you thought they were
crying wolf. when they failed to catch osama
bin laden, aka looney bin laden, or osama bin looney
since he emerged anti-u.s.a. after decimating
the soviet union in 1993, fully armed by the c.i.a.
and turned on his masters you laughed and laughed
at those who prepared for the massive attacks on
us everywhere in the world. again you said they
were just boys crying wolf. when they said the
mexicans, the central americans and the south
americans have plans for the yankees, who they
told to go home, you again laughed and laughed
and laughed and got back in bed with some bimbos
and said so what!! again you thought they were
just crying wolf. well, the wolf''s at the door,
and you need a sandwich, but you forgot to grow
the food, thought someone else would. read the
story of the little red hen saps? learn to fast!!
it keeps ya so thin. what''s a little famine to
cool people like you. why, no problem, you''ll
eat air. yum yum. or raw lemons, no sugar.

[scoliosuxs]

It''ll be interesting to see if the insurance companies cover wind blown fire since they evidently don''t cover wind blown water damage as from Katrina and Rita. Will they get new FEMA trailers or the refurbished ones that the evacuees destroyed? Stay tuned for more FEMA mismanagement.

[cryonbrian]

So I guess the Chocolate City was not the only city not prepared for such disasters. We can''t blame Nagin for this one! Karma is a MOTHER!