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- inactive, on 11/10/2007, -2/+103This is like a sad episode of cribs.
- cawpin, on 11/04/2007, -7/+83Stop spamming Breitbart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGF2bbxQ6E - ohhoe, on 10/28/2007, -0/+49This is really sad. :/
Everyone needs to quit bitching about 'why did people build here?', empathize for a second instead of having a tough e-persona.
Almost every area of the U.S is in jeopardy to some type of environmental disaster. Midwest : droughts, tornadoes. Northeast: Blizzards, Floods. South: Hurricanes, wildfires. West: Fires, Earthquakes. - bradallen18, on 10/30/2007, -1/+39hey sounded like he was going to cry.
- Hoxie, on 10/30/2007, -21/+57the roof is on fire, the roof is on fire!
We don't need no water, let the ***** burn! and now over to Chris Stapleton for a sports update. - rz8472, on 10/25/2007, -1/+34The only thing sadder in the story than this guy losing this home are the inbred bastards on Breitbart who post crap like this:
"I’ll give even odds an illegal started this fire in the hills cooking up their dinner. The hills in that area are full of them."
"I see a little coincidence in half the state of California burning and the bill that the governator signed last week criminalizing mothers and fathers and allowing our children to be taught homosexual filth in our public schools. Wake up America! The judgement of God is at work!"
"Oh how I agree with Bob! God will not be mocked and California is about the worst place on the planet for doing that. If there are real Christians in CA and they allow this to go on, they must be punished along with the evildoers. I hope “the big one” hits them soon too!" - deepdiggdude, on 10/30/2007, -0/+30Anyone else getting tired of the reference to "million dollar homes" as if homes of a lesser value are somehow not as big of a loss to their owners?
- ZeppFreak89, on 10/30/2007, -0/+28yea this ***** is crazy, im a san diegan and my house torched in the cedar fire 4 years ago and now is in the path of this fire and prob. will burn again, and i dont know how he can do this... must of took some courage to just stand their and be like, here is my house!
- torrzilla, on 10/25/2007, -2/+25Stay grassy, San Diego
- mythicflux, on 10/30/2007, -0/+22Larry Himmel is a ***** institution in San Diego. This guy has been reporting here for Channel 8 (KFMB) for decades. The reason I say that is that if you haven't seen him in the past you wouldn't know the level of professionalism he's brought to San Diego. What's truly amazing is that he's typically the "wacky" reporter, that guy whose generally not uptight and generally good easy going. To see him report the events the way he did just gives me more respect for the guy, simply because he kept from completely breaking down on air.
- sockpuppets, on 10/24/2007, -1/+21Wait until San Francisco is leveled by an earthquake.
And yeah, I live here. - czedlitz, on 10/25/2007, -3/+21that sucks. hopefully he has insurance and can rebuild.
- Calypsoaf, on 10/24/2007, -0/+15Sounded to me like a perfect case of shock. He could barely make a straight sentence, kinda just rambling on. What the hell would you do if you lost your house to a wildfire?
- Rikkochet, on 10/24/2007, -1/+13Or the idiots who build away from ample freshwater supplies and suffer during a dry season? Or dumbasses who build on a mountainside and get taken out by landslides? Or retards who build on the coast and get hit by a tidal wave?
Weather happens. It sucks. Our ***** gets wrecked, we rebuild it. It's nothing special, it happens everywhere in nature. - grakker, on 11/08/2007, -3/+15That is the most inappropriate post I have ever laughed my ass off about.
- CapeKid, on 10/30/2007, -0/+11I don't think that would help, Ann Coulter pees napalm.
- jhnewt, on 10/25/2007, -4/+15Normally he reports on how green his lawn is.
- capiCrimm, on 11/08/2007, -5/+14ITS GONNA RAIN
- geekd, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10I live in San Diego. I live at the beach, so the fires are not directly affecting me. Many of my co-workers have been evacuated, however, and I have yet to find out if anyone I know lost their house.
Most of the fires are in rural areas. These are place with ranches, livestock & horses. Some people like the rural life. In place like Julian (evacuated) they actually get some snow in the winter.
In the more suburban areas, people feel safer. They don't live "in the city", so they don't have city crime rates.
I all these areas, you get WAY more house for your money compared to the urban and beach areas of San Diego, where fire is not really an issue. My tiny house (750 square feet - more of a cottage) near the beach is roughly the same price as my co-worker's 2000 square foot house in North County (evacuated).
The trade off for them is a longer commute, more traffic, away from the center of things, and, as we see now, fire. The reality is, though, if you want a decent sized house (what people in the mid-west would call a regular house) with a regular sized yard for less than a million dollars, you have to live in these areas that have a fire risk.
As for Larry Himmel, he always struck me as a good guy, with more personality and humor than most San Diego news people. I'm sorry for him.
-geekd - Anteros, on 10/24/2007, -1/+10Poor guy :( Anyone else get the ironic and totally tacky home based business ad at the end?
http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=homebased ... - modularsky, on 10/24/2007, -2/+10You're the reason I care more about trees than people.
- willrs, on 10/30/2007, -0/+8well at least his hose never gave up
- witcompe, on 10/24/2007, -1/+8And you live in Kalamazoo, MI... So if a crippling blizzard would sweep across your area killing people and causing problems, you would not feel bad? Or maybe a tornado since Michigan does get it's share of them. Face it, no matter where you live, there is some risk for disaster. Some more so than others, I admit. But saying that you only feel a little bad for them because they should have known about the fire danger is just mean and callous. I am not advocating living in a flood plane or a fire zone, I am just saying, think if it happened to you.
- Calypsoaf, on 10/24/2007, -1/+7Why do people build on the Gulf Coast? Why do people build in Tornado Ally? Why do people build on the Mississippi?
***** happens wherever you live, Mother Nature is just a risk we face each and every day, and sometimes she takes back what she rightfully owns. - LiveeviL, on 10/24/2007, -0/+6I watched this guy watch his house burn down live on news 8. He was in tears and later he gave a tour of what used to be his house. He almost burst into tears a lot...
- inactive, on 10/25/2007, -3/+9Don't you get it? That is the SOLE REASON why macxprt signed up for Digg. Because breitbart.com paid him to do so.
- bigdirtymoose, on 10/25/2007, -2/+6i'm sad that this happened to him. i've met him several times just around town and he's a really nice guy. when i ran into him a supermarket once he let me cut him cause i only had a couple items, and i remember years back when i was in like 4th grade he came to my school to teach us how to plant little saplings after a fire had burnt around our school. my prayers are with him and everyone else who has lost their home in these fires. i think i caught i lucky break with my house but here's hoping my luck holds.
and i hope glen beck has the common courtesy to give himself the present he deserves by shoving a red hot poker up his ass. - iammustangman, on 10/24/2007, -0/+4wildfire insurance is pretty common among us homeowners in San Diego, at least those of us who live anywhere not downtown or on the beach. so yeah, it sucks, but it happens, and you get your insurance.
You will see when the insurance companies bitch and moan in about a month. it'll be all over the news (just like the cedar fire, and cadencia fire (same area)) - ScottMitchell, on 10/29/2007, -1/+5Only that when a plane crashes, you're not homeless for months or years. And you don't have years and years of memories associated with a plane, like you do with a home. You know, that wall over there, where we used to measure the kids' heights every year on the birthday. That corner of the living room, where we'd put up a Christmas tree each December and decorate it as a family....
- ronintetsuro, on 10/25/2007, -1/+5Do not feed the soulless bastard troll.
- Maddoktor2, on 10/24/2007, -0/+4I tip my hat to a courageous journalist.
- Hypotized, on 10/24/2007, -0/+4i live in a San Diego
but have not evacuated yet hopefully the fires can stop before it gets worse - ronintetsuro, on 10/24/2007, -1/+4Behold! Compassionate conservatives on the march! Goosestepping their way to a brighter future through WarChrist!
- gak001, on 10/24/2007, -0/+3You bastard!
- homer420032003, on 10/24/2007, -2/+5Oh, okay I though you lived over there.
- ihate2regist, on 10/24/2007, -1/+4***** Me, San Diego.
- inactive, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3awful...
...and sad.
Our prayers should be with him and countless others like him. - ronintetsuro, on 10/24/2007, -0/+3You 'why live there' idiots won't be satisfied until it happens to you, huh?
- dantidote, on 10/25/2007, -2/+5No joke, I bought a diggnation shirt from j!nx, but they couldn't ship because of the fires. I really feel bad for this guy and everybody out there affected by these fires.
- ejde, on 10/24/2007, -2/+4What would Jesus do, eh? What a bunch of sick people.
- sockpuppets, on 10/24/2007, -2/+4Stop spamming you stupid *****, nobody is going to visit your site.
- snowden404, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Earthquakes. A wooden home can take a lot more than a brick or concrete building. Just because there have not been any here for a while, does not mean one won't happen. The reason everyone is always saying they are waiting for the big one is because no major earthquakes have occurred in the region for about 10 years, when mid sized earthquake used to occur yearly before that and now have become strangely infrequent.
- Antibland, on 10/24/2007, -2/+4I feel like this segment is driving at some obscure point: "People...you've seen the tragedy that just occurred here. Write your local politicians right now and stop fire."
- ronintetsuro, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Of course he wouldn't. 24% of Americans figure 'if it didn't happen to me, ***** em.' So since it happened to him and not someone else, he wouldn't feel bad from himself. Since, you know, he lived in an area obviously prone to blizzards. Makes complete sense if you're a douchebag.
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2"no pets left behind"
omg thats horrible, and he could actually report all this stuff thats amazing while the place where years of his life spent were buring down infront of him, i would break down crying like mad. - Spoomeister, on 10/24/2007, -2/+4I think people are missing your point, taking "get over it" for indifference or insensitivity. I don't get why you're getting dugg down. What happened to your friend 's (teenage!) kids is horrific.
- inactive, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Do ya not know! "There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it!" Alright bury me for the MIB quote...
- ronintetsuro, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1Problem is, I bet you the insurance companies pay out for these people. The same ones that bailed on New Orleans people.
- ThinkBox, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1It's sad when Bud Light Dude will prolly get more diggs than this.
That man must be going through a lot. - cube5, on 10/24/2007, -0/+1Did anyone else get the ad after the video that starts "working from home changed my life..."
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