plus, the fires are much more localized than katrina, which hit along the whole coast. neighboring communities (like los angeles) can offer assistance in the fires, but who was neighboring and unaffected by katrina? houston was closest, but nobody could get into the area for quite a while.
fires aren't hurricanes--they don't destroy infrastructure. and california isn't louisiana--it isn't poor and isolated. and rich people aren't poor--they can leave.
it was rhetorical and you know it. the point was that the poor people of new orleans were pretty much stranded in their city. san diegoans, on average, had the resources to leave and did (except for those at the stadium). people who left from new orleans were called "refugees." i haven't heard that word for san diego people yet.
FEMA and other relief and rescue services face significantly different challenges in the fire zone than they did on the Gulf Coast in 2005
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fires aren't hurricanes--they don't destroy infrastructure. and california isn't louisiana--it isn't poor and isolated. and rich people aren't poor--they can leave.
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and robert is one of my smartest friends!
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