San Diego is being ravaged by fires for the 2nd time in almost exactly 4 years. I never expected to see such a similar tragedy so soon after the Cedar fires. I'd hate to think that people are setting these fires, but it is really suspicious. Not sure if it's prudent to write thoughts like this down, but if I was a terrorist... ... not going to finish that sentence.
Wikipedia is awesome, people posted all kinds of info on the fires: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_wildfires_of_October_2007
And it gets updated as new info is made available (very fast).
A few of the news outlets used Google maps to create fire maps so people could see where the fires were, evacuation areas, evacuation centers, etc. I'd say the coverage of the fires was much better than the Cedar fires and I love the progress the internet has taken in the past 4 years. Becoming more community driven and improved applications like Google maps.
It seems the emergency services did deal with these fires better than the Cedar fires, but I don't like hearing people comparing to Katrina - especially when they are saying that San Diego gov't did so much better than in New Orleans, and Qualcomm stadium (the largest evacuation center) was like a party versus looting, etc. Yeah, only a percentage of SD's population was even affected, so the other 90% were available to chip in and help. That's not really the same situation as Katrina.
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