Scott Pelly pointed out on his news show today (6/17/13) that the government had spent 3 1/2 billion dollars fighting wild fires in the west. They showed the homes that had been destroyed by fire and interviewed a few people who would be building again on the same lots that the fires had destroyed their homes. They were trying to make a point on how insane that was to rebuild in that same area. I wondered, how many times have I seen flood waters on the same rivers again and again back east and nothing was said about them rebuilding. I guess that’s ok. Folks get hit with tornado after tornado and rebuild in the same area. Hurricane after hurricane hits Louisiana, Florida and Texas, both the east and west coast and those folks rebuild in the same locations. I guess that’s ok. New Orleans is 21 feet below the level of the Mississippi River and folks rebuild in that area. That’s ok. And Mr. Pelly wonders about the sanity of the westerners rebuilding in the trees of the western mountains. Come on CBS, say something to your announcers about equality. Give us westerners the same break as you give other folks around the nation. We love our mountain locations  same as the river valley folks, same as the tornado alley folks, same as the coastal location folks. It kind of rankles me, Mr. Pelly……Pete Hester….ps  I tried to send this to the local CBS television station but they refused to accept my e-mail. That’s ok….input from peons probably should not be accepted since it is like a box of chocolates, never knowing what will show up in your inbox and if you don’t look, you won’t have to deal with it. It’s no big deal, except to those folks in Colorado Springs……oh, and me…it hurt my feelings….