Reports from Qualcomm are trickling in

They've got massage, accomodations, food and drink. Hey, we are not Katrina! They've got crisis counseling, AA meetings, singing, dancing, music, tail gating, and entertainment. We are not Katrina! They've got long lines for coffee (so we're more like Starbucks), but they've got coffee! And they don't need any more donations! We are not KATRINA!

Nobody does disasters better than California. (We do it with bikinis on!)

The vast parking lot looked a lot like a premature tailgate party for the football Chargers' Sunday game, except for omnipresent gauze masks to filter out smoke particles and gun-toting California National Guardsmen on patrol. It was an example of lessons federal officials said they learned from Hurricane Katrina - to make resources available immediately rather than in phases. But for all the horrors at the mob-filled Super Dome that came to symbolize the Katrina response two years ago, images out of Qualcomm verged on the quirky and carefree. Fire refugees could take yoga lessons, get personal autographs from Padres baseball players and watch a giant screen showing of "Cars," the cartoon movie.

Oh yeah, and we're not Katrina.