Originally Posted by CargoBob
Did the republican Gov fix the prob?? Oh, I know...it was Bush's fault. There was not a homeless problem during Clinton.
1. Yes, California fixed the problem. Was it our governer? Maybe. What I do know is we have a several BILLION dollar budget surplus this year.
2. Lets look at WHY there are homeless people in SF. Two reasons. The first is we offer them more aid than anywhere in the country. Good or bad, its a fact. The other BIG reason is our weather. I wouldn't want to be homeless in many places in this country. Can you imagine being homeless when it snows outside. Or when its freezing cold. Or when its blazing hot and humid. These conditions happen just about everywhere in the country. Not in San Francisco. Like I said before, our weather is always between 60 and 85 degrees. You get about 5-7 days a year in the 90's. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. Thunderstorm, what the heck is a thunderstorm? Snow, it never snows here? Perfect weather.
however there is this little thing about earthquakes
I remember the 1989 earthquake. It was a 7.0 (like a category 4 hurricane or an F4 tornado on the earthquake scale). So powerful, it hit with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs. What happened? Not much. A concrete onramp to the Bay bridge collapsed (this is where most the people died, maybe 30?). Umm... well, I think a few houses in Santa Cruz were destroyed... A 20ft section of the upper deck of the Bay bridge fell (down to the lower deck)... Some groceries fell of the shelves...What else? What else?? Not much! Remember there were 60,000 people in a stadium watching the world series when the earthquake hit. No one was injured. Can you say that about an F4 tornado in a major urban city. Or a category 4 hurricane. No.
The other thing is 4.0 and 5.0 earthquakes are actually pretty cool. Nothing ever gets damaged. You just shake for 15+ seconds. Yee haw. Can you say that about an F2/F3 tornado, or a category 2/3 hurricane? No.
Blah blah blah, I am going on and on. I know your comment was in good humor fireman, but I just want to point out a misconception that earthquakes should scare people away from California. Not true. Hurricanes/tornadoes/floods are a lot more dangerous.