Napa City Manager Mike Parness says he is pleased with the way their emergency planning helped the community respond to and cope with the 6.0 earthquake. But planning for a disaster, and actually experiencing one are two different things, so there are lessons to be drawn from what actually happened. One of them involved dealing with debris.

Napa’s citizenry could scarcely have reacted better to the emergency, says Parness. When hundreds of residents were displaced, so many were taken in by family, friends and neighbors that only a few dozen turned up at the city’s hastily opened shelters. And there was another striking indicator.

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