Imagine what those in that region would be saying if this were happening in Texas.
Heck, imagine what they’d be saying if there were a Republican governor.
I guess I shouldn’t do the same thing in reverse, but this state is so screwed up, you just can’t help but address problems.
I agree with your take also.
Probably the same reaction you have toward those folks. I don’t agree with them politically, but these folks are suffering just as those that lost homes in fires in Butte County this year...Please, don’t be like Morford in the SF Chronicle and somehow turn this around to blame others that don’t think politically like you.
Did the old folks that died trying to escape the flames deserve their cruel death at the hand of flames? Did the 14 year old kid that ran for his life and was found burnt to a crisp in his driveway deserve his fate...what about his parents, also found in the driveway their bodies raked in pain as 60 percent of their bodies were burned.
What about the man and wife vactioning in the area were froced to dive into a pool beacuse burning trees blocked the path of their getaway? For hours he held his wife in the water as he suffered burns trying to hold onto the bricks that lined the pool. Those bricks were like oven bricks. She died from smoke inhalation and he held her for hours in the pool until the flames eventually subsided and he was able to drag his now lifeless wife out... I wonder what he were to say if it happened in Texas.
It doesn’t happen there to the same degree because like other prairie States Texas cleans out underbrush and maintains wide firebrand.
This isn’t something that just happened like a hurricane or an earthquake. This is something which can be mitigated. But California doesn’t.
“Imagine what those in that region would be saying if this were happening in Texas.”
No need to imagine. They DID say it when the hurricane hit Houston.