September 6, 2011

The disaster you aren't hearing about

Funny how some things are widely publicized and others just drop off the face of the earth. Right now, there is a wildfire that has consumed over 1,000 houses with 600 houses burned yesterday (Monday, 09/05/2011) alone. If this was in California or Louisiana or some liberal state, there would be nonstop news coverage and FEMA would be busting down the state doors. Texas? Not so much -- from Yahoo/Associated Press:
Officials: 1,000 Texas homes burned in past week
More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday.

Gov. Rick Perry, who cut short a presidential campaign trip to South Carolina on Monday to return to help oversee firefighting efforts in Texas, toured a blackened area near Bastrop, about 25 miles from Austin, where a fast-moving blaze destroyed nearly 600 homes on Monday.

At a news conference afterward, he marveled at the destruction and pointing out that more than 100,000 acres in the drought-stricken state had burned over the past week, and that more than 3.5 million acres � an area roughly the size of Connecticut � had burned since December.
And the governor cut short his campaigning to return and help. A bit more:
Perry, who was scheduled to take part in a Republican presidential debate on Wednesday, declined to say whether he would skip the event to stay in Texas.

"We'll deal with that when it comes up," he said. "I'm substantially more concerned about making sure Texans are being taken care of."
That is how you govern. Priorities first. Posted by DaveH at September 6, 2011 5:44 PM
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