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All three networks discovered unlucky San Diego County residents whose homes had been burned out. ABC's Neal Karlinsky (subscription required) followed an "underground information network" among the evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium whereby residents sneaked through police lines into closed neighborhoods and called back with the news on which homes had survived. Karlinsky was in Rancho Bernardo when the Bircham family drew the short straw and "found out their lives will never be the same." CBS anchor Katie Couric went to Ramona with Christie Williams, a young mother of three, when she discovered that her home, named Shangrila, was razed: "It just looks like the moon," Williams exclaimed. "You never want to live in a brand new house. I love the old homes. I love the quirkiness--but I guess I am going to have to learn to change what I love. Learn to adapt." And George and Jan Kolarov took NBC's Don Teague to sift through their "pile of ashes, still too hot to dig through, and a million-dollar view" on a hilltop in Poway. In the haste of their evacuation, what did she grab? A box of baklava and three rolls of toilet paper. "You are a very strong person because you are here smiling, talking about all of this," Teague admired. "Well you know it is kind of funny."
And on CBS, Bill Whitaker brought us Dayna Czermak of Lake Arrowhead, whose home is, so far, still standing. In 1994, Czermak was in Northridge visiting her brother when the earthquake struck. She lived in New Orleans and had her home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Evacuation took her to Houston where Hurricane Rita "forced her and her family to run again." When fires started she refused to leave. "I do not feel unlucky," she insisted. "I do feel like disaster is following me."
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