2007-10-24 03:03:04 · 39 answers · asked by Mother 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You know it is funny... Last year we (Denver) had a huge snow storm. We were shut up in our houses and cut off from the rest of the world for over a week. We didn't need the Gov. to come in and "SAVE" us. We didn't need FEMA to help us. We didn't blame Our Beloved President for the freakin weather!
We are smart enough to know we live in a snowy area. We know what happens, and can happen. We are able to take care of ourselves! Funny how that happens.
I am usually not a big fan of SO CAL. But I have to give them credit.... They have not jumped on the poor us bandwagon and blamed everyone else for their choice to live in a fire prone area.
2007-10-24 03:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by USMCstingray 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋
Several reasons, some of them because the poor, left on their own, with no supplies and no help did what they wanted figuring they had been forgotten by the rich white guys on the hill.
The Santa Ana fires happen every year. Not this badly, but it does. They have a reverse 911 system for warning people to get out. The people have money for shelter and cars for leaving, luxuries that the poor of NO didn't have.
They have a limited access roads so that looters can be stopped miles from the sites. There is very little population density and that limits looting. You can't drive in, unless you can prove you live there, and then you are escorted something not provided by the flooding of NO and if you could you would stand as much of a chance of being burned as the building you were trying to rob.
Don't say there is no looting yet, its not over and there are people who, after the fires are out do go in and pick over the rubble looking for what they can find.
Lots of looting after Katrina was of the food, clothing, diaper and liquor and beer sort, none of that would have survived the fires. I saw electronics looted too, pretty pointless considering not only was there no power, but they had been damaged in the floods.
2007-10-24 03:17:26 · answer #2 · answered by justa 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
why would rich people need to loot? I'm pretty should they all have home owners insurance. When you own a home it kind of a good idea. If you live in an area prone to flooding having flood insurance might not be a bad idea either.
2007-10-24 03:08:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jerbson 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I would imagine, for one reason, waterlogged "loot" in New Orleans was considered salvagable but completely burned to cinders "loot" in San Diego is not, not to mention the fact it isn't stores which are burning up, it's homes.
2007-10-24 03:19:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You can't swim through fire and ashes suck as looting booty.
There were some people arrested in Ramona, CA for looting BTW.
Buses are still running. You can go to a movie or a restaurant. The toilets still work and there are hotels to go to or a functioning airport or Bus Station to go somewhere not so smoky. The responsse is huge from the state level and the Federal level because ...well have you heard of the term gun shy? FEMA is covering their a$$ on everything since then.
2007-10-24 03:07:30 · answer #5 · answered by fnsurf 4 · 11⤊ 3⤋
People living in million dollar houses are not likely to need to loot, and nobody really needs a melted watch.. Think about it.
2007-10-24 03:12:14 · answer #6 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
San Diego people are generally conservative.. It's a red group of counties.. Only two incidents of looting there are taking care of their own.
The libs are crawling all over themselves about it because it doesn't fit the bill of the Katrina mentality.
2007-10-24 06:38:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
LOL, well, no one can get into the areas and there is widespread law enforcement still able to be in place and the emergency is still in the process of happening.
At other times, looting has been rampant in so cal, earthquakes, riots ...
In N.O., the law enforcement is still not in place, over two years later, in huge tracks of areas, where people are still having to live like squatters due to lack of basic social services like water, power, gas ... mile after square mile of residential areas are ghost towns of vacant, empty shells of former thriving family homes.
The FEMA trailers do not even fit on most of the lots FEMA has okayed them for and even where they do, there is no source of heating, cooling, lighting, water ...
2007-10-24 03:12:35 · answer #8 · answered by paigespirate 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Well, for one thing they've had a co-ordinated emergency services response there since before things got desperately bad, and for another it's kinda hard to loot something that's actually on fire.
Cheers :-)
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2007-10-24 03:07:07 · answer #9 · answered by thing55000 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
To loot there must be things worth taking, and that means more than just charcoal. And in areas where homes still exist, the police have cordoned it off and will only let people in with an escort.
2007-10-24 03:07:10 · answer #10 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Nice pic.
Maybe because most of the area is way spread out. Access is limited. But sounds right for San Deigo. Sad. New Orleans is a very condensed area. Outsiders also came in and took advantage of the situation too.
Now there is more talk of arsonists setting the Cali fires. Another tragedy. Thanks.
2007-10-24 03:11:58 · answer #11 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋