Paris Hilton, Billy Crystal Among Celebrities Who Lost Homes In Los Angeles Wildfires

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club⁩ to ⁨celebnews@thelemmy.club⁩

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/celebrities-lost-homes-los-angeles-wildfires_n_677fa045e4b0703dfe213e6e

Tens of thousands of residents are displaced and awaiting word on whether their homes survived the flames — some of them the city’s most famous denizens.

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Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I forgot that Paris Hilton exists, and I was perfectly happy with that.

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- realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  What’s she famous for?
  
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  - Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    A sex tape and being famous.
    
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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
At first I was a bit turned off by news like this. Who cares? OTOH, seeing that even the wealthy can’t escape these disasters says something.

Anyway, coming from the Hurricane Coast, this horrifies me like no hurricane could. We have a small house, but it’s only 7yo and has strong structural elements against wind and water. I don’t care how your house is made, it’s going down if a blast furnace hits it.

In other news, how could you be filthy rich and life packed in like rats? If I had celebrity money, I’d be far past the edge of town.

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- realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  In other news, how could you be filthy rich and life packed in like rats? If I had celebrity money, I’d be far past the edge of town.
  
  I think there is something to be said for having a balance between having space for yourself and being around other people. Seems like the rich maintain this balance by having mansions next to each other. I don’t follow celebrities but do casually follow some Twitch streamers and it seems like many of them choose to live around other people so that they aren’t lonely, despite being rich enough to live in the middle of nowhere.
  
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  - shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Guess a mansion and huge property are plenty for most. If I was filthy rich, I’d be like the guy in Ex Machina, need a helicopter to get to me.
    
    And I’m not a misandrist! I actually love people, just not around my space. I’ll go to them when I want more company than my wife.
    
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lemmus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
How many have HUGE carbon footprints that cause these fires?

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- realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Incompetence, not carbon, caused this particular fire. They needed to do more controlled burns which they refused to do, and properly water the trees and foliage which they also refused to do.
  
  This was a case where California just didn’t take case of the state and it lead to destruction. Literally everyone knew that this would happen too, but they refused to do anything about it.
  
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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Interestingly enough, this may not be down to global warming.
  
  theconversation.com/how-santa-ana-winds-fueled-th…
  
  Jon Keeley, a research ecologist in California with the U.S. Geological Survey and adjunct professor at UCLA, explains what causes extreme winds like this in Southern California, and why they create such a dangerous fire risk.
  
  I’m guessing those are better credentials than just about anyone around here has got.
  
  My colleagues and I recently published a paper comparing 71 years of Santa Ana wind events, starting in 1948. We found about the same amount of overall Santa Ana wind activity, but the timing is shifting from fewer events in September and more in December and January. Due to well-documented trends in climate change, it is tempting to ascribe this to global warming, but as yet there is no substantial evidence of this.
  
  Wish he had talked more about the lack of evidence. What did they learn?
  
  California is seeing more destructive fires than we saw in the past. That’s driven not just by changes in the climate and the winds, but also by population growth.
  
  More people now live in and at the edges of wildland areas, and the power grid has expanded with them. That creates more opportunities for fires to start. In extreme weather, power lines face a higher risk of falling or being hit by tree branches and sparking a fire. The area burnt because of fires related to power lines has greatly expanded; today it is the major ignition source for destructive fires in Southern California.
  
  Overpopulation strikes again. We’re never going to outpace global warming if we don’t drop a couple of billion people.
  
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