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1. Dennis on October 24th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

   I think it is absolutely horrible when people lose their homes. I do not want to downplay how terrible that is. The media is overplaying this though. I live in San Diego, University City to be exact. This fire has been compared to Katrina, and also to the 2003 Cedar Fires, but everyone makes it sound like this is worse. The 2003 Cedar Fires destroyed over 4500 structures. This one hasn’t even reached 2000. The Cedar Fire killed 15 people. This one is up to 7 or 8. Much of these low numbers are due to the extraordinary effort of our Firemen, so my thanks to them. This fire has supposedly had more evacuees than any previous disaster. They say it’s around 500,000 homes evacuated. Ummm…. yeah, that number includes areas such as Encinitas where NOBODY has evacuated. I drive through Encinitas to go to work in San Marcos, and guess what? Shops are open, people are out in the streets going shopping, eating in restaurants, etc. Don’t believe everything you hear and see on the news. Qualcomm Stadium has how many evacuees? They say “thousands”, but it’s really somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000. Out of 500,000, that leaves over 480,000 people who are unaccounted for. Where are they? They certainly aren’t all in Del Mar. I’ll tell you where they are. They’re at home, their out shopping, buying big screen t.v.’s (which is saw yesterday when I went to Fry’s), they are living without any danger. The areas that have been burned are PRIMARILY rural areas, and yes, it is horrible how many people have lost their homes, but this pales in comparison to previous disasters. Which leads me to my final point. Why on earth didn’t I spend more money than I can afford on a house last year, when I could have let it burn down this year and collect a nice, hefty check from the Federal Government. This country is becoming more and more socialist, and its feeding on FEAR. This is a free country, and people are free to buy homes and buy insurance. The government can’t replace what they’re losing. Insurance will replace the material things. What people are losing are the priceless items that can not be replaced. That is a tragedy, but one in which the Federal Government can do NOTHING about!

2. Idetrorce on December 15th, 2007 at 9:13 am

   very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
   Idetrorce

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