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#4 California has known and experienced the fire risk since the 1700s and more should have been done to insure the safety or there shouldnt have been homes built there!
In New Orleans they also have known of their problem 100s of years and have chose to build on a flood plane!

You answered your own question with the first line in your thread. Civilized people do what needs to be done without waiting for the Government to help them. That didn't happen in N.O.

i feel bad for the people who lost all their homes in that area that is destroyed by those wildfires in california. i am glad though that the evacuation did not turn into chaos in southern california.

In CA the local goverment had an emergency plan. In NO they still do not have an emergency plan years later.

To be blunt, which Im sure some will dislike about me, here are the reasons San Diegans and New Orleans-ians are different....1)while many of us east of the California border consider them an extreme liberal state, they are very well schooled in natural disasters. They do not rely on their nanny-state politics to guide them through such disasters. Unlike in Louisiana, nanny-state politics rule and the people of New Orleans are bound to that way of life. Its exactly like MrsTracy stated so eloquently....the same people who said "hell no, we wont go" are the same people who said, our government left us to die with no help whatsoever. Come on, realists like myself will never rely on the government to ever help me keep my family safe. I will do whatever I can do to accomplish that, without looking to the government for anything. Sure, maybe the homes in Cali were insured, but don't blame the people for having insurance. I live in small town in Northeast Wisconsin, no flood plane, no threat of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, or any other major natural disaster. But guess what? My wife and I carry full coverage homeowners insurance. Does that mean that if by some act of God, I am able to get my home and my personal belongings replaced I am some kind of an affluent, non-caring person? No, I think it means I am a responsible, smart individual who sees the big picture, not just the dollar signs I might save from not carrying insurance. The disaster in the south affected more than just those in Neworlwans remember, but why is it we dont hear people from Mississippi whining and com