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Hurricane Katrina and the California wildfires are disasters of vastly different scale.(The Week ...)(Brief article)
Hurricane Katrina and the California wildfires are disasters of vastly different scale. The fires destroyed 2,000 homes; Katrina destroyed 300,000. Even in the midst of the fires, San Diego had power and telephone service and passable roads; after Katrina, New Orleans had none of the above. So comparisons between the two are somewhat unfair. That said, the preparation of California officials was clearly ...
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