Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Palisades homes Saved Like Private Ryan

TMZ ^ | Jan 9, 2025

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are two lucky Hollywood stars ... 'cause both of their houses appear unscathed while the rest of their neighborhoods burn around them.

TMZ has obtained photos and video of the two properties ... showing Hanks' cliffside home and Spielberg's sprawling, wooded estate still standing.

Check out the clip ... the house just above Hanks' went up in flames -- with smoke still wafting in the air -- while Tom's pad stands without even a speck of ash on it.

It's quite the coincidence that these two houses have survived the blaze while so many other celebs have lost their homes ... given Spielberg and Hanks are frequent collaborators and close friends.

[Notthereyet]

“God is not all love love. Sometimes this is a small picture of his wrath and anger.”
___________________________

A true and sincere, ‘thank you.’

So often we (myself, included) forget the order of the LORD’s communications to HIS creation.

1. HE provides what we need, even if it’s not what we think we need at the time.
2. HE will tell us that we are straying...definitely straying...from HIS instructions and HE will do it once or many times...it’s HIS choice.
3. HE will allow us to experience the consequence/s of our action/s. And it may happen at the hands of one/s we would consider to be more depraved than ourselves. (HE will deal with them, later)
4. After we realize we have a choice to be made HE lovingly brings us back in Love with HIM, or he allows us to experience the consequence of rejecting HIM.

My pastor gave me some advice when I grieved about my beloved husband not being a Christian.

Mind you, neither of us were Christians when married.

“Be quiet, girl. Be quiet, and let him just watch you.”

Aside from revealing the Truth of Salvation, it was the most important advice my pastor gave me.

And it was such a hard thing to do. About a year or more...maybe less...my husband accepted Christ as his LORD and Savior.

Once my beloved became a Christian, he was able to communicate to my eldest son the gift of Salvation as they both were ‘heavy thinkers.’ Not heavy drinkers, heavy thinkers... never ever could I have communicated to my eldest son in the way my husband did.

We all leave trails in the mist.

So if only one person understands then it’s worth all the names.

Mind you, I do, unfortunately have a strange sense of humor that I blame on the genetics of my parents being from the North and the South. :)

I do tend to ramble on, as they say and have often put my foot in my mouth. Many friends have had to help me pull it out.

PeterPrinciple, thank you, so much...for allowing my ramble.

[DouglasKC]

They are both zillionaires. They likely have vast supplies of water and have hired private people to hose down their residences 24x7.

[LizzieD]

No, they’re just lucky, their homes are just as exposed to the brush as any others...I know exactly where they live (my aunt owned a lovely little home down below them in the 60s) and I’m glad that area didn’t burn as I have nice memories of that house.