24 February 2005

Los Angeles seeks to be declared disaster area after storms kill nine

Boo-frickin'-hoo.

It rained in Southern California, and it's the apocalypse. If you build a house on a hillside, guess what will inevitably happen? Moreover, if you build a city on a major faultline, guess what else will inevitably happen?
Monday, three multi-million-dollar homes in the posh district of Bel Air, which boasts famous residents including movie legend Elizabeth Taylor and former US first lady Nancy Reagan, toppled dramatically down a hillside after the sodden earth underneath them gave way.
We got tornadoes (or is it tornados? Where's Dan Quayle when you need him?) - don't cry to me about your self-inflicted "natural" disasters. We've had hailstorms that cause more damage in a single hour, and you don't see our mayor squealing about it, asking for federal money.

Babies.

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