Tonight, for the first time since January 7th, I made the depressing choice to drive from a friend’s on Lincoln across town on Altadena Drive. The utter devastation of the Eaton Fire is truly ghastly. So much of my town just doesn’t exist anymore. As I got to Altadena Drive and Washington, it began to rain…

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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    1. Insurance for the area will assuredly go up or disappear altogether. It’s sure to be a huge factor. Building costs are sure to rise, but not prohibitively so. The current trouble is where to live currently while rebuilding and is it worth the tradeoffs. I don’t have a bead on where this all sits yet for the broader community. Even people like us with houses still standing are up in the air on all fronts.

  1. Maybe you saw my note in the Obsidian book club feed in which I included a Business Week interview with Gale Sinatra a USC prof I know. They lost their home. She describes a very difficult situation with so much of the community gone.

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