It occurs to me that if the typhoon that hit the Philippines a couple weeks ago and which has killed upward of 5,500 people (with thousands more still missing) had instead made landfall in San Diego or somewhere else along the west coast of the U.S. and caused just 5% of the deaths, there would already have been two pay-per-view concerts featuring various classic rock acts, a Twitter campaign to get people to donate via text and much, much more.