headed down the peninsula and i asked them if they would give me a ride to the airport. i walked to the airport and rented a car and ended up going around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to me. i have been an elected public official for a long time. during that time i have been very interested and concerned about disaster and disaster preparedness and how we can mitigate and plan and demand so when it happens we re prepared. and at berkeley i won t give you the whole litany but berkeley is one of those communities that is highly educated. we have 22 nobel prize winners from brerkly. the gentleman from fema, we have more people take the new york times percent-wise than new york city. we also take the chronicle in higher percentage than people? san francisco. i don t know. people in berkeley have been extremely generous. we have one of the highest tax rates in the nation. you know, not just in the st
being killed because if it came down it would have been a disaster. the trick was trying to get back to berkeley. i come on public transportation and a friend of mine had a tv. as you can imagine one of these portable tv s. we realized that it wasn t running and the bridge was down. so it was quite an adventure getting back. what actually happened, i was able to get a bus that was headed down the peninsula and i asked them if they would give me a ride to the airport. i walked to the airport and rented a car and ended up going around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to me. i have been an elected public official for a long time. during that time i have been very interested and concerned about disaster and disaster preparedness and how we can mitigate and plan and demand so when it happens we re prepared. and at berkeley i won t give you the whole litany but berkeley is one of those communities that is hig
around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to me. i have been an elected public official for a long time. during that time i have been very interested and concerned about disaster and disaster preparedness and how we can mitigate and plan and demand so when it happens we re prepared. and at berkeley i won t give you the whole litany but berkeley is one of those communities that is highly educated. we have 22 nobel prize winners from brerkly. the gentleman from fema, we have more people take the new york times percent-wise than new york city. we also take the chronicle in higher percentage than people? san francisco. i don t know. people in berkeley have been extremely generous. we have one of the highest tax rates in the nation. you know, not just in the state but in the nation, and people have still said it s important for them to deal with disaster preparedness and to make steps earthquake our scho
rented a car and ended up going around san jose to get back. a lot of my friends did not get back for a day or so. it was quite an eye opener to me. i have been an elected public official for a long time. during that time i have been very interested and concerned about disaster and disaster preparedness and how we can mitigate and plan and demand so when it happens we re prepared. and at berkeley i won t give you the whole litany but berkeley is one of those communities that is highly educated. we have 22 nobel prize winners from brerkly. the gentleman from fema, we have more people take the new york times percent-wise than new york city. we also take the chronicle in higher percentage than people? san francisco. i don t know. people in berkeley have been extremely generous. we have one of the highest tax rates in the nation. you know, not just in the state but in the nation, and people have still said it s important for them to deal with disaster preparedness and to
the first night of the after the earthquake we found over 3,000 people in parks and open space and we ended up with thousands of people continuing to be in parks and open space for months ahead after the earthquake. and so in a concentrated place like san francisco with the housing shortage i m always pressed to tell people to learn how to shelter people for a long period of time, how to deal with the fact that especially in san francisco, at least in watsonville people were living in their back yards and front yards for months at a time. here in san francisco we do not have that luxury so open space will be prime housing for a period of time. we also work with an international community and like in watsonville we had a very difficult time convincing people to come out from the shelter from the open space into the shelters because we had thousands of aftershocks and people knew because they lived in other countries that buildings would be are the major killers and t