Considering the numbers of people affected by Hurricane Katrina, do you think the media is making too much out of the fires in California?
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Stewie_G
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Not really. I think they are completely separate incidents that need to be looked at as completely separate incidents. Both are tragic, some of both have lost all they own.... Thinking like this can lead to secondary wounding experiences in those that may suffer from PTSD because of the fires in california. for example "What you went through was bad, but those people in Katrina..." These people still will go through hell, just as those that went through katrina did. Plus, You have to look at the fact that they are both amongst the worst of their respective categories.
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Not when you look at the numbers, more people have been evacuated for these fires than Katrina. I was in LA for two days this week, and it was quite Apocalyptic in some places, not to mention I left there feeling like I had been smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and my nose bled and my eyes were burning constantly. For those there, escape was not an option. Even those working fifty miles away had to deal with the air quality and traffic, etc. It was a huge issue effecting a lot of people besides the thousands who lost everything from the fire itself. One difference was that the authorities actually responded to the situation and did not wait until it was too late to try and evacuate people. Unlike Katrina, they were able to orderly evacuate 500,000 people from a lot of remote areas, etc., without having to blame someone for their incompetence. While Arnold gets a bad rap as governor, he responded quickly and got people in motion to handle things.
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The damage and 1800 hundred homes lost should get a lot of attention. When California suffers the economy of the nation suffers.
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it is their job to make too much of everything, otherwise no one would look at tv/radio/newspaper.
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No, I think they are right to give a lot of time to reporting on the fires. They are the reportedly the worst in history and have displaced more people than any other fires have, due to evacuation or homes burning. Hurricane Katrina was our nation's worst natural disaster, but the fires are very devastating, too, especially to those who live there or have friends/family there.
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Not at all. It was devastating. It affected many people. The number of homes lost is staggering. Sure, it wasn't the biggest loss in history of the planet, but it doesn't have to be. People have been affected physically and emotionally just like in other tragedies. Yes, there was more organization but there was also more money involved. People owned cars and could drive away from the fire as opposed to buses in N.O. There weren't as many people in Qualcomm stadium as in NO but there was still a city to go home to. But 1800 homes are still gone. Animals still died.
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No the fires have had over a million people evacuated from their homes. People are still being told to stay inside becauseof the pollution. They are both terrible disasters in different ways. I agree that California will probably be made good quicker, but that does not minimise the scale of the disaster.
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Way too much..and I live in southern California. The only outside news we knew of for quite some time was by watching the national news. Everything here was just reporters from different stations reporting the same things over and over from different locations. Not to downplay the trajedy... but exclusive fire coverage at the expense of all other local news was a bit much.
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