Two points from San Diego:
1. FEMA? Who's that? So far as I could tell the lead agencies
for fighting the fires were all the fire crews, with a lot of support from the state. The lead for information was the county. Relief
was the Red Cross (at schools) and the city (at Qualcomm). So yes, local competence counts. We will see how FEMA does at the reconstruction phase.
2. This was a LOT easier than Katrina. Outside the fire everything was normal--if someone from the unaffected part of the city wanted to bring food to Qualcomm, they could. And, since everyone (nearly) has a car, evacuation was pretty easy. Finally, 5/6 ofthose evacuated stayed with friends--again, the fire effects are local.
Of course (?) he gets his facts wrong. Newton was Anglican only because he never admitted to denying the Trinity (not suprising, this was explictly denounced by the Toleration Act of 1689.
I remember hearing this as "pompous, aweful, and artificial" (the spelling helped), but my source was the epigraph to a Poul Anderson story--I think. Since this memory is at least 35 years old, add as much salt as you like.
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