Rebuilding after recent fires brings challenges, opportunities, and a vision for a stronger, more sustainable future
You can’t write a story about how long it’s gonna take to rebuild from the Palisades Fire without comparing it to the Woolsey Fire. Affluent communities, high education, high household income: Malibu and Palisades are gonna be very similar except the Palisades is going to be 10 times harder. The rebuild stats after the Woolsey Fire are sobering: I believe the total rebuild after six years is 38 percent. That’s for 700 homes in the City of Malibu and unincorporated areas. The Palisades Fire is 7000 structures, so we’re looking at a minimum of 10 years.
— Anonymous and concerned
First of all, thanks to Elon Musk for making Starlink Mini affordable and available, and Haylynn Conrad for letting me use one when all systems weren’t go. Think what you will of Musk’s politics, he makes a good product. I wrote some of this running Starlink Mini off my car battery. Took it out of the box, put it on the roof of the (borrowed) car, pointed it wherever, and it worked perfectly sitting 60 feet away — although it did drain the (borrowed) car battery tout de suite. So thanks to Chris and Bearded Bro of Broad Street Oyster for the jump…