Pacific Palisades is my hometown. My parents have been there for 40 years. Their home appears to have probably survived, miraculously, no more than 1000 feet from neighborhoods that were utterly destroyed...
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Unfortunately, the town as a whole is gutted. The images coming out represent thousands of homes and what had been a charming, quiet neighborhood commercial corridor, now mostly leveled. It will take years to rebuild, and will be like living next to a bomb crater in the meantime...
There really wasn't any place like it in the LA area. It always had some issues, especially if you were growing up there. (Quiet, boring, and conservative, which tended to encourage a lot of misbehavior by overprivileged children, speaking from personal experience)...
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My very heart is heavy this week. 💔🌊