This may all end up bigger in impact than Katrina....
0397 2:54PM Report of Fire NB SR261 JNO PORTOLA PKWY Santa Ana
This may all end up bigger in impact than Katrina....
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And there will end the similarity. In spite of anger, frustration, fear and grief, people have behaved in a most un-Katrina like way.
Well, there is no where near the destruction in San Diego as there was with Katrina. There may be an estimated 750,000 people evacuated but we would be counted as one of the homes evacuated but we are still here at home. We are no where near the fires at this time, by the way. (We are packed and ready to go we are about a minutes drive (or less) to interstate 15.)
Most of the evacuations are precautionary. They learned from the Cedar fire to evacuate early and not wait until the last minute and create panic. Black Mountain is directly behind us. We've been through this a few times before and last time we were not allowed back in after we were told that we would be. Most people on the street are gone some are still here. If the fire even begins to come close, we will be gone in a flash.