Posted On: October 24, 2007, 3:44 pm CDT

Posted By: concerned agent

if you have never been through one of the southlands notorious 'santa anas' you would never understand. there was nothing that could be done in advance. the santa ana winds can whip up from 0 to 70 mph in a space of 15 minutes. the temperature rises from 50 to 85 degrees in a matter of one hour. the speed with which this happens is unbelievable. there is no advance warning! hence, there is little time to mobilize emergency forces. people who have never been in a santa ana cannot conceive how fast it comes up. the people realize their obligations to trim back shrubs,etc, but when something of this magnitude hits it is like Katrina, there is nothing one can do. if you follow the news reports, at least we responded with all resources available, in contrast to Katrina, where all their governor did was stand around and cuss out the president of united states. it is nice to 'monday morning' quarterback but if you do not know what you are talking about, just shut up and be thought the fool. you have opened your mouth and removed all doubt.