So sad what's happened as a result of the recent fires in the LA area. Here are some Google Maps satellite views that are now updated to show the devastation. Notice from the first image to the next two as we zoom out and we see the scope of the sheer destruction block after block, neighborhood after neighborhood in this which was once a beautiful, picturesque Southern California dreamscape.
Another area of Pacific Palisades totally wiped out.
Here's just a couple random street view pictures in the area of the first satellite view. Beautiful houses. Meticulously landscaped lawns. Hundred-year-old trees. Now all gone.
Here we can see where some of the houses that were nestled right up against the coast are now reduced to rubble. I guess it means, at least for a while, drivers down the PCH will have awesome ocean views they haven't had in many of the places along that stretch of road for decades.
The most recent estimate I read says that the cost of this devastation is somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 to 275 billion dollars. And now to make matters worse, the delayed rainy season is creating huge mudslides across the area since the infrastructure usually mitigating mudslides, like buildings and grasses and plants, have been burned away leaving just exposed charred earth and ash for the rains to wreak havoc with.