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There are about 20 years, Jeannie Woolman Albertson demolition of the house and business to stop the jokes of a “homewrecker”. A retired after San Diego acted sledgehammers hinterland for agriculture and dance education has been accustomed, the friendly campground naturist and alongside cows Wayward forward in their court.

Now, barely a week after the fire in the greater history of California destroyed their homes, Ms. Albertson his mind turned again to his former profession. But this time, they are building a house, not a “Tearing Down.

“I’ll come back,” she says, when she wishes couplings a handful of forms outside a jam-packed Assistance Centre for Victims in the Alpine fire near their home. “Il faut do not want to your neighbours or down, you have abandoned. ”

Their reaction is one here. Faced with the fire-stricken neighborhoods of Southern California, people are digging, is not abandoned. Californians wait in long lines to make applications for building permits, know-contractors fraud, and are ready for construction, including the persistence of a truth sustainable recovery after a disaster. If the Americans have hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires or by an overwhelming majority, where they were before evaluating the pride of the town on the fear of destruction.

In California, the ethics of the extension may still deeply rooted and for two reasons: a scene that breaks permanently to the risks of natural disasters and the demand for new beginnings, long part of the identity state.

“Both in reality and fantasy, California is vulnerable to problems,” said Tim Hodson political scientist at California State University, Sacramento. “Part of the mythology is that we rebuild and we will rebuild better.”

Many people have a lot of work. The Cedar barrier east of San Diego, like all other major blazes in southern California, it was anticipated that control Tuesday. In all the fires destroyed over 3570 houses, for a total estimated damage of over $ 2 billion. The insurance agents are currently in some areas, and the process of surveying the damage could take weeks, as fire inspectors poke Schutt, in search of white ash - The story of William Tell, sign a wooden roof of fuel - or pieces of bricks and Stuck.

In the Alpine region, 25 km east of downtown San Diego, people are faced with financial challenges greater than elsewhere. While the fire destroyed the band pockets of wealth, but also destroyed dozens of mobile homes and farms baufällige.

Residents have bitterly regretted that the media have downplayed the destruction of its neighborhood for the suburbs earlier, even if it this week. — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger chooses visited the area on Monday and was projected to resume Tuesday with President Bush and Gray Davis Dir.

At one point, insurance payments us help the financial obstacles, as well as public borrowing and San Diego County’s elimination of building fees for victims, thus saving a whole averaged approximately $ 2200

But rich and poor, for a potential problem: a lack of contractors, electricians, plumbers, construction and deliveries.

Until Cuyamaca Mountain, near Alpine, neighbors are a small coalition to ensure that contractors are not forgotten. The fire destroyed almost all the 100 houses on the mountain, a popular winter weekend in San Diego offers many children with their first impression of snow.

The neighbors plan to share resources and try you for the group is interested in the supply of housing, furniture, said Roger Behrendt builder, has lost his homeland, his father at home, and a guest house. “We can not rest here and cry or we can do something to rest and smart,” he said.

It recognizes that the protection against fire is a priority for him and his neighbors. For some, even if this is the safest solution, it might not be easy. Scott Anders, in part, he was not sure if she wants to go and return. Senior advisers roux energy spent part of Saturday, orders paintings donated mouth water, pillows and other accessories on a Masonic lodge near El Cajon, recall, as his family narrowly escaped an early morning to hell. Flames léché at his mother-in-law’s car when she fled her house, and four of its neighbours to death.

Well, Mr. Anders’s thoughts are filled with a rate of seconds - maybe it would have spent more time on the removal of a brush or evacuation. “We knew we were living in a tinderbox,” he said.

Yet, most people affected by the fire want to return to their friends and neighbors - even if no building left, the insurance agent and other experts say. “People have a very strong field liaison and its environs and a disaster can make that commitment even bigger,” said Kathleen Tierney, a University of Delaware sociologist.

Jan Urbach goes so far to claim that it will remain anything. She lives in the mountains of San Bernardino, after six years, and from the beginning of this week, they do not yet know if their house was destroyed or remains unchanged. But she said she will do what is necessary for the stay of at least five years - and ensure that its eighth grade daughter Loni Swartz, graduates from High School underway with their classmates.