California especially has a lot of really great people in disaster management, from CalOES on down to the various county-level agencies that they coordinate wit

California especially has a lot of really great people in disaster management, from CalOES on down to the various county-level agencies that they coordinate with. That's not to say that things don't sometimes go upside-down; the destruction of the town of Paradise was an event that nobody had trained or planned for and there were a lot of relatively little things that got mishandled in the process, which slowed down some of the bigger things. But then it was all used as a case study over the next year and became a training drill with new operations manuals for all the agencies involved. So yeah, I get what you mean. New York seems to be taking the right steps here in the absence of a functioning federal government. I hope we don't get to see California in action, but if we do, I expect it will be a very fast, competent response.