Hi from LA

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Hi from LA, my family and I are safe, but we’re all in a bit of shock. When my husband and kids and I came to LA four years ago, we stayed our first month in a house near the PCH in the Palisades - that house is gone now. We moved to another house in the Palisades, near Will Rogers park - it’s hard to tell if that one still stands, but I think it does. Our house now is on the border of the mandatory evacuation zone, but it’s fine. We left last night around 7:30, it seemed too risky with the winds getting worse overnight.

This morning is like waking up to an alternate reality, looking at footage of the completely burned down town, literally the entire thing is gone - like if the whole Upper East Side of Manhattan was decimated overnight, except more because it’s also Malibu, Topanga…. and then the fires in Altadena. It’s a nightmare. Friends have lost everything, friends’ children’s schools were burnt to the ground. So many places my family and I loved are gone, the destruction is so va…