500,000 people have been evacuated in Southern California as fires engulf thousands of homes. Now in day three, the dozen wildfires have burned more than 1,300 homes and businesses, and the destruction may only be the start for the region. With temperatures rising and wind gusts remaining fierce, the flames were proving nearly impossible to fight.

Initial reports suggest overnight stay was "extremely orderly" with no major incidents reported, according to a statement issued by City Councilman Jim Madaffer's office. More than 5,000 cars were in the Qualcomm lot, and evacuees slept in cots, tents and their cars. Officials said there is still plenty of room available, and 25,000 cots are being delivered Tuesday from sources including FEMA and the Red Cross.

But is it standard procedure to group everyone in one location for any form of emergency evacuation? The answer is NO. It has been long understood it is a bad idea to be 'locked-in' to a single location. It has always been planned for multiple locations for flexibility and distribution of supplies and all corners that make up an 'infrastructure'.

I suggest to you the reason for regression of practical knowledge is FEAR. Fear of what? Well that's a good question. I suppose if you ask Homeland Security, they will tell you: "terrorists are everywhere, and they are looking for just this kind of event to cause harm". Oh really---I bet a few thousand local American's packing firearms might have something to say about that.

But then this might bring up the other instilled fear. If you ask local authorities, you might hear: "We are bringing everyone into one location for their own protection. Here we will screen every single person that comes in and strip them of any weapons. You see we like this idea of QualComm---it's like one big jail---- uhh, I mean one big secure zone."

But what would the actual hands-on emergency management units have to say? They would tell you something such as: "this breaks all the rules of what we have learned over the decades. This is not the most effective way to take care of people and their needs."

Ohhhh, that's right, the purpose of emergency management is to take care of people and their needs. I guess in all this confusion, and being after 9- 11 I guess I forgot it is not about protecting people from the 'evil doers' and providing "security from terrorists", it's about taking care of people and their needs.

Let's go back and take a look at Hurricane Katrina.

Below is what I wrote back on August 28th 2005 after seeing what direction Michael Brown, Bubba Bush, and Michael Chertoff had taken in action for Hurricane Katrina. Sure, racism plays a roll, this is to say the "have's and the have not's", in demographics between Louisiana and California, but I believe it had very little to do with what was driving the Bush regime.

(August 28 2005) I must tell you, I don't have a good feeling about this "Superdome" thing. It doesn't feel right, and it is not consistent with Red Cross or FEMA protocol. Perhaps this was decided because of New Orleans geographical "soup bowl" layout.

Hold onto your hat, in the two articles below I cut no corners----and I have a special section just for the 'global warming' cabal who thinks this fire has anything to do with so-called global warming. A warming trend yes, but Al Gore warming--- no.

See 'Enough is Enough'