.gif)
So it is with the firestorm that raged across San Diego County and environs this past fall. In 2003, a series of wildfires devastated large parts of the same Southern California coun...
» Want to continue? Login below:
Fire and Flood: What a Difference Class and Race Make, or Did Brian Williams See the News?
FIRE
AND FLOOD. We call them natural disasters, but a closer look suggests a human hand at work as well. Three years before Katrina hit the gulf coast, Mike Parker, the former head of the Army Corps of Engineers, warned that the levees, which crumbled under the impact of the hurricane, were bound to give way one day. To support his plea for funds to repair them, he brought samples of the corroded steel supports to his White House superiors. “It doesn’t matter if a terrorist blows the lock up or if it falls down because it disintegrates,” Parker told the director of the Office of Management and Budget. “Either way it’s the same effect, and if we let it fall down, we have only ourselves to blame.” The response from an indifferent and irresponsible administration was to force Parker’s resignation.
So it is with the firestorm that raged across San Diego County and environs this past fall. In 2003, a series of wildfires devastated large parts of the same Southern California coun...
So it is with the firestorm that raged across San Diego County and environs this past fall. In 2003, a series of wildfires devastated large parts of the same Southern California coun...
