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Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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Anyone on the ground in LA? I remember when I asked about going there @Being , @Lazuli , @waffles answered. Anyone have the perpsective of a resident?

I'm quite far away from the fires, though the ash has drifted down to our area and the air quality has not been so good. On a clear day I can see Malibu/Pacific Palisades/Santa Monica from nearby, but smoke is clearly visible.

From a human perspective, most of us are going about our normal business. I haven't heard an official statistic of how many people have been displaced yet, but it's at the point where you hear about distant relations getting affected - nobody I know personally, but friends of friends having to evacuate, co-workers's wife's cousin lost their house - that sort of thing.

You were lucky with the timing of your trip, if the fires started two weeks prior you'd be wearing an N95 everywhere!

True about our timing, very true. I asked about local perspectives because other than one or two sources the focus in the mainstream news media is typically on multimillion dollar homes of the well-heeled. I don't mean to be callous but I don't care so much if a celebrity's third home in malibu was torched.

I am given pause by stories of people being caught actually lighting fires for whatever nefarious psychotic reasons of their own, right in the middle of the worst of it.

In any case, glad to hear you've been relatively insulated!