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If you are one of the people that have Dish network and only subscribe to the top 60, you only have CNN. I watched CNN during the hurricane and was actually really impressed... Then came the cleanup... I have never seen such negativity. They focus only on the negative aspects. Every guest is prodded on the race question. Every scene is a person "down and out" on the street. Example: During a slow news section, Wolf Blitzer kept bringing up the apparent animosity between LA governor and the President. He kept bringing up the race issue. Etc. So I upgraded...

Look at this current disaster we can see that all levels of government had (to be kind) shortcomings. So what now? Well lets remember 1st the level of government. The 1st level is YOU the citizen (or resident). What is your responsibility? Do you have a disaster kit available? http://www.ready.gov has a list of what you need. Do you have a plan as how to evacuate if you need to? The second level of government is your neighborhood. Get to know your neighbors, who has special needs, who has what training in 1st aid, medical, building trades, contacts etc. From...