Ouch – didn’t realize Raph lived in Rancho Bernardo. It’s half burned over out there, hope it doesn’t spread much further south.
Pretty much everything more than a mile east of my place has been evacuated due to the same fire burning into Rancho Santa Fe, but it looks like they’ve got this end of it mostly under control.
Come visit sunny San Diego! We promise to stop burning Real Soon Now.
Well, I guess we can take comfort in the fact that fewer people are saying stuff like “those people knew the risks and chose to live there, so screw ‘em.” I guess that is one improvement over the blogosphere’s commentary on this vs. Katrina.
It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.
Personally I’m less sympathetic to the rich than to those in N.O., but I also give at least a little thought to the consequences of the location I choose to live in.
If you move BACK to a place like that after getting your shit wiped out, then I say fuck ya.
I’m getting a “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” message when I follow that link. Apparently fires can’t stop Raph’s blog, but its popularity can.
“It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.”
There are no smart places to live. Mother Nature is one violent bitch and no matter where you choose to live she has a plan for destroying your home and killing you.
Humans have an advantage over other animals, we tend to think ahead and have compassion for each other.
“It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.
Personally I’m less sympathetic to the rich than to those in N.O., but I also give at least a little thought to the consequences of the location I choose to live in.
If you move BACK to a place like that after getting your shit wiped out, then I say fuck ya.”
people have and will.
no longer in fire for a living, but when i was I went to southern ca on more than one occasion. without being too much of a prick… people choose spots to live because of how they look, not because of safety… that just isn’t at the priority when people are choose where to live.
Malibu: a perfect example of a bad place to live… whether it be mudslides (generally as an after effect of fires), fires, falling into the sea people keep rebuilding in the same damn spot.
meh i don’t have the energy for this… people
build where it looks pretty, not where it is “safe”
And they’re perfectly entitled too. I’m just not going to feel too bad when your multimillion dollar cliff side lodge skis down the mountain in an avalanch. I won’t delight in your misfortune, but I’m not throwing any coins in your rebuild fund either.
Quoted from D-One: “There are no smart places to live. Mother Nature is one violent bitch and no matter where you choose to live she has a plan for destroying your home and killing you.”
Mother Nature has nothing to do with draughts. Pollution is the ultimate cause of such harsh climates.
Gojira – Yeah, as a New Orleans resident and native I can say quite honestly say that people really shouldn’t live anywhere anything bad can happen to them. Like Chicago (severe weather), San Francisco (earthquakes), L.A. (scientologists), New York City (terrorists), Boston (falling concrete), the entire state of Florida, the southeast and gulf coasts (hurricanes), the midwest (tornados, dust storms, giant hail), Texas (Texans), the northwest (blizzards, rockslides, avalanches, eaten by bears), the northeast (same but with cougars) or the southwest (drought, fire, immigrants).
As for the rest of it – this has turned out better in terms of evacuation and lives lost primarily because of the reverse 911 system that was implemented after and as a reult of Katrina. More people care because these are rich white people (self-sufficient, campaign contributors) and not poor black people (welfare leeches). And an attitude of “they knew it would happen eventually” isn’t appropriate, either. Sothern CA is on fire EVERY YEAR. Not to mention that a fire is an immediate danger. You can see it, smell it, feel it. A hurricane is and always has been a potential, eventual danger, subject to the mercurial nature of the tropical south atlantic climate. You can fight a fire. You can’t fight a flood, only prepare for it and sometimes the best preparation (when you actually have it) isn’t enough. The comparisons between the two events are flawed in these and all other respects and are wholly media generated and driven in an attempt to pin the whole thing on a. global warming or b. the incompetent, uncaring republican administration.
about 2 years ago
Ouch – didn’t realize Raph lived in Rancho Bernardo. It’s half burned over out there, hope it doesn’t spread much further south.
Pretty much everything more than a mile east of my place has been evacuated due to the same fire burning into Rancho Santa Fe, but it looks like they’ve got this end of it mostly under control.
Come visit sunny San Diego! We promise to stop burning Real Soon Now.
about 2 years ago
Well, I guess we can take comfort in the fact that fewer people are saying stuff like “those people knew the risks and chose to live there, so screw ‘em.” I guess that is one improvement over the blogosphere’s commentary on this vs. Katrina.
about 2 years ago
“I guess that is one improvement over the blogosphere’s commentary on this vs. Katrina.”
There are lots more rich people involved this time.
about 2 years ago
It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.
Personally I’m less sympathetic to the rich than to those in N.O., but I also give at least a little thought to the consequences of the location I choose to live in.
If you move BACK to a place like that after getting your shit wiped out, then I say fuck ya.
about 2 years ago
I’m getting a “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” message when I follow that link. Apparently fires can’t stop Raph’s blog, but its popularity can.
about 2 years ago
“It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.”
There are no smart places to live. Mother Nature is one violent bitch and no matter where you choose to live she has a plan for destroying your home and killing you.
Humans have an advantage over other animals, we tend to think ahead and have compassion for each other.
about 2 years ago
Not trying to be a smartass, but didn’t Raph already lose one house to a fire? Talk about crappy luck.
about 2 years ago
“Not trying to be a smartass, but didn’t Raph already lose one house to a fire? Talk about crappy luck.”
Yes, it was right before (or after?) the release of UO.
about 2 years ago
“It’s also not as obvious a stupid manouver as living below sealevel.
Personally I’m less sympathetic to the rich than to those in N.O., but I also give at least a little thought to the consequences of the location I choose to live in.
If you move BACK to a place like that after getting your shit wiped out, then I say fuck ya.”
people have and will.
no longer in fire for a living, but when i was I went to southern ca on more than one occasion. without being too much of a prick… people choose spots to live because of how they look, not because of safety… that just isn’t at the priority when people are choose where to live.
Malibu: a perfect example of a bad place to live… whether it be mudslides (generally as an after effect of fires), fires, falling into the sea people keep rebuilding in the same damn spot.
meh i don’t have the energy for this… people
build where it looks pretty, not where it is “safe”
about 2 years ago
And they’re perfectly entitled too. I’m just not going to feel too bad when your multimillion dollar cliff side lodge skis down the mountain in an avalanch. I won’t delight in your misfortune, but I’m not throwing any coins in your rebuild fund either.
about 2 years ago
Quoted from D-One: “There are no smart places to live. Mother Nature is one violent bitch and no matter where you choose to live she has a plan for destroying your home and killing you.”
Mother Nature has nothing to do with draughts. Pollution is the ultimate cause of such harsh climates.
Kyoto treaty plx.
about 2 years ago
“Mother Nature has nothing to do with draughts. Pollution is the ultimate cause of such harsh climates.”
O rly?
about 2 years ago
Gojira – Yeah, as a New Orleans resident and native I can say quite honestly say that people really shouldn’t live anywhere anything bad can happen to them. Like Chicago (severe weather), San Francisco (earthquakes), L.A. (scientologists), New York City (terrorists), Boston (falling concrete), the entire state of Florida, the southeast and gulf coasts (hurricanes), the midwest (tornados, dust storms, giant hail), Texas (Texans), the northwest (blizzards, rockslides, avalanches, eaten by bears), the northeast (same but with cougars) or the southwest (drought, fire, immigrants).
As for the rest of it – this has turned out better in terms of evacuation and lives lost primarily because of the reverse 911 system that was implemented after and as a reult of Katrina. More people care because these are rich white people (self-sufficient, campaign contributors) and not poor black people (welfare leeches). And an attitude of “they knew it would happen eventually” isn’t appropriate, either. Sothern CA is on fire EVERY YEAR. Not to mention that a fire is an immediate danger. You can see it, smell it, feel it. A hurricane is and always has been a potential, eventual danger, subject to the mercurial nature of the tropical south atlantic climate. You can fight a fire. You can’t fight a flood, only prepare for it and sometimes the best preparation (when you actually have it) isn’t enough. The comparisons between the two events are flawed in these and all other respects and are wholly media generated and driven in an attempt to pin the whole thing on a. global warming or b. the incompetent, uncaring republican administration.
about 2 years ago
As explanation for the tone above, I’m apparently still suffering residual effects of seeing Rage Against the Machine at Voodoo fest Friday.