Wildfire in San Diego - Hope Pachagirl79 is Okay!

Paris400

Paris400

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She hasn't posted anything in a long time but I remember her saying that she lived in San Diego. The wildfires are destroying practically the entire city - there are people doing news reports while they watch their houses burn down! I hope she's doing okay during this traumatic time. Our thoughts and prayers are with you, sister.
 
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my brother and co are driving down to LA to disney from SF later on in the week, possibly tomorrow.

Is this advisable??
 
Sara (PG79) lives in Pacific Beach. That area is totally safe now. Her folks (if I am not wrong) still live in Escondido, which has been hit hard.

I live at the border of Oceanside and Carlsbad about 25 miles north of PG79. Both PG79 and I are about 0.3 miles from the coast. If the fire gets to where we are, then basically the whole city has burned down. There is a lot of smoke in the air, and ash is falling 24 hours. Yesterday the sun looked like a pink snooker ball.

Camp Pendleton is just a few miles from my place and there are some massive fires there. However, Pendleton goes about 20 miles inland.

I have not seen any panic buying at the grocery stores till now. Contrary to what the news reporters are talking about comparing this with Katrina there is no comparison.

Phil:

I would tell your brother to stay away from SoCal.
 
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"...
California Struggles With Fire
While National Guard Stretched in Iraq
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While California struggles to contain a devastating fire
that has claimed thousands of acres, they are forced to pull National Guard
from the boarders as well as rely on neighboring states to assist.
At the same time, the Pentagon announced the deployment
of more National Guard troops to Iraq.
All this at a time when it is clear the National Guard is stretched
too thin due to Bush’s reckless war policy.
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Guard from across the country will be deployed to Iraq through 2009.
The Pentagon announced last week that National Guard brigades
from across the country will be deployed to Iraq...
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[AP, 10/20/07]
 
Irrespective of what one thinks about the war, bringing the war into this situation is nothing but a very cheap political tactic. Yesterday, the Lt. Governor (John Garamendi) was bitching on the news channels about ending the war so that there are more National Guards in SoCal. While the situation is bad, it is not even near to a Katrina. Katrina was a water-locked situation with access possible by means of specialized transport mechanisms. Even if people wanted to help, they could not go into New Orleans. In SD, all roads are open. There were very few temporary closures. In Katrina the SuperDome in New Orleans was slammed with far more people than Qualcomm stadium. In addition, the prison population was allowed to mix with the public. That is not the case here. The SuperDome did not have electricity and water. At Qualcomm Stadium the evacuees are sipping lattes, getting massages, having yoga sessions, etc. Hurricane Katrina hit hard and all of that was at one time. People did not have time to evacuate. In the case of a spreading fire there is time to evacuate.

Most of the 1500 guardsmen are conducting patrols in some areas to prevent any looting. In all fairness, that would not even be necessary if SD County did not screw up their finances so badly that they are on the verge of bankruptcy. Disaster or no disaster, SD County is extremely short on police force; about 300+ officers short; or about 20% below normal levels.

Disagreeing with the war and the President is totally fine and dandy, not to mention the “in thing” right now. But trying to blow things out of proportion to further one’s agenda is pretty darn low.

The same goes for FEMA, Bush and Arnold beating their chest now and showing everyone how far they have come along, and how well everyone is working with everyone. It is the community coming together because they can come together.
 
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