Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Governator is on Fire

Now for a moment of levity amidst disaster, Arnold has been all over the TV regarding the California wildfires, and quite frankly he's crushing it. Here are some selected quotes from our Governor. They are much funnier if you read them in your best Schwarzenegger voice:

We had a unfortuante situation where we had three things come together: very dry areas, very hot weather, and a lot of wind. So this makes the perfect storm for fire.

We are getting continual updates and doing all we can to protect the lives and also the property.

Anyone that is complaining about the planes just wants to complain because this is a bunch of nonsense. The fact is that we have all the planes in the world here, we have 90 aircraft here and they cannot fly because of the wind situation.

Eighteen firefighters have been injured, four of them I visited yesterday the hospital in San Diego, they have severe burn wounds and so on.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated under monetary, mandatory, precautionary and voluntary evacuations.

At Del Mar, where we had 1800 vulnerable citizens there from nursery homes, so they had to be evacuated and they needed medical attention so we had to get doctors there, nurses, we had to get ambulances there, we had to get medical facilities where they can be transported, some of them needed dialysis, some of them had heart problems and diabetes and so on.

We were concerned, do we have enough cots down here, do we have enough blankets, do we have enough food, do we have water, do we have the baby formulas, do we have the diapers, do we have enough toilet paper, do we have enough toilets?

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