The San Bruno Disaster

We were at a Septar (Special Education PTA - Redwood City) meeting and Shannon gasped at a news flash.

Twenty miles to the north, San Bruno had exploded.  There are four confirmed dead and two more are missing.

Read Karoli on deferred infrastructure spending:

I wonder whether $46 million would have been enough to maintain safe pipeline delivery lines to neighborhoods so they don't blow up. I wonder whether conservatives give a damn when an entire neighborhood spontaneously combusts. I wonder whether they have a fixed number of dead people in their minds before they actually treat our infrastructure problems in this country like something worth their attention. I wonder how they look themselves in the mirror at night.

Would you be prepared to evacuate? Most of the residents still aren't allowed back into their homes. Some advice:

• Jim McDonald at Making Light: Go Bags
• Jim McDonald at Making Light: How to Triage After a Calamity
• More on go bags