As a former Southern California resident, the Santa Ana winds have never been a friend of mine.

Look at this map of San Diego. I wonder what will be left.

And I wonder how the insurance companies will worm out of it? They always do. There are some insurance companies back East who are refusing to insure homes in hurricane zones.

 

This article appears in Oct 18-24, 2007.

8 replies on “Is San Diego Burning?”

  1. Difficult to tell from the map what’s going on with Rancho Santa Fe (home of the Heavens Gate Gang, remember):

    http://www.heavensgate.com/

    but wherever they landed, it seems they had the sense to leave:

    http://www.rickross.com/reference/heavensgate/gate34.html

    Probably doesn’t matter.

    Dynasty:

    http://www.shoulderpads.net/

    was filmed way north so shouldn’t be at risk. Yet.

    “Seaview Circle” (Knott’s landing, taped in Granada Hills) is indeterminate…

  3. There’s a difference between not writing policies anymore and not covering an already insured. The former is happening quite a bit along the southeast coast these days. The risk is then borne by a home owner who wants to live there in spite of the lack of homeowners insurance. Most hurricane damage is covered for the already insured, the major exception being along the Gulf coast after Katrina, particularly in New Orleans. Most insurance companies claimed the damage was from floods and many people didn’t have flood coverage. Class action lawsuits are pending in those cases. Not a great outcome, but more nuanced than “They always do.”

  5. Glenn Beck on the fires: “I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.”

  7. I’m sure by now most of you have heard about FEMA’s phony press conference, but in case you haven’t, it’s worth a look.

    Basically FEMA didn’t want to waste time announcing a real press conference and waiting for reporters to show up, so they just faked a press conference and had their own people pretend to be journalists so Michael Chertoff could answer canned questions for the TV cameras. His answers were then carried on stations such as Fox News without any indication that it wasn’t a real press conference.

    This is the kind of inanity that happens when an administration stacks its employees top to bottom with people who are high on loyalty but low on principle.

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