Posted on 01/29/2025 9:05:18 AM PST by Red Badger
The Oscar winners nephew Abe Streep revealed that the actress, 75, had to come up with a creative plan to get to safety.
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep had a tense escape from the Los Angeles wildfires, according to her nephew, Abe Streep. The 75-year-old actress was forced to cut a hole in her fence large enough to drive through while evacuating her home on January 8. The wildfires, which started a day earlier, spread rapidly across parts of the city, forcing many residents to flee.
Abe Streep shared details of the incident in a New York Magazine article, highlighting the destruction caused by the fires. Emergency services have been working to contain the blazes, with officials urging residents to stay alert.
"Evacuation mandates were sent across the city. My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit," Abe wrote in the New York Magazine.
"Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbour, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbours on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape."
The wildfires, which have devastated large portions of the LA area, first ignited in Pacific Palisades and spread to Malibu and Santa Monica, with the Eaton Fire particularly impacting the Altadena-Pasadena area.
Numerous Hollywood stars have lost their homes in the wildfires, including Pratt's ex-wife Anna Faris, Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Mel Gibson, Jeff Bridges, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Paris Hilton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Warren, Cary Elwes, and more.
Pastor Jack Hibbs said that as the clean up is starting, they’re finding bones and teeth amid the ruins.
I wonder if they have any idea how many perished considering the number of homeless and illegals that nobody kept track of.
At 75 that was quite a feat.
Smart move.
More often than not, people caught in the middle of a disaster actually experience a normalcy bias (aka analysis paralysis), a state of disbelief caused by underestimating the probability or scale of a dangerous situation, causing denial once it is actually happening. As a result, rather than fleeing the site of the disaster, the affected remain dazed and take much more time than optimally needed to get out.A retrospective look at the evacuation situation of 9/11 provides a great example of this bias in effect. A study done by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, involving interviews with 900 survivors of the attack, revealed that it took them 6 minutes on average to make the decision to head down the stairs following the attack. Moreover, the range was quite broad, suggesting some individuals were clearly much more affected by this bias than others. At least 70% of the survivors also talked with others before attempting to exit in a process known as milling. According to a 2001 study done by Thomas Drabek on this subject, when people are asked to evacuate prior to a natural disaster, the majority first check with four or more sources, such as friends or news outlets, before taking any action. A reason for this behavior could be the cognitive dissonance that causes one to dismiss a disaster for as long as possible, even if asked to evacuate, while seeking reassurance from others that it’s a false alarm.
Figures show that the normalcy bias is a fairly common phenomenon. Around 70% of people experience it in a disaster, while the other 15% break down and the remaining 15% remain collected and act efficiently. On one hand, this inactive behavior can sometimes help calm those 15% in frenzy, but on the other, it can hinder the progress of the ones remaining level-headed and trying to follow the right procedures.
She votes D.
I would have named him Beep Streep.
She used wire cutters.
Honestly?..................
That’s interesting.
Thanks.
I’ve heard of normalcy bias but that’s the most informative thing I’ve read on it yet.
New disaster movie coming out soon. Streep and other Hollywood actors fight global warning.
Sometimes, you have to get permission to cut down trees on your own property, which may have been the case & the driveway had to be routed around them.
Which in post # 22 I answered that indeed she did need to drive her car through the fence, as a tree had fallen across her driveway blocking her evacuating via her car, until she had cut the hole in her neighbor’s fence. That cut allowed her to drive her car in her evacuation attempt. Not sure her car made it, but she apparently was able to get out.
We’re thinking 🤔 of calling ourselves “Meryl Streep”
Oh she’s such a phony baloney!!
Netflix movie? Barry and mooches could produce it right?
OR TO KEEP DOGS IN
I understand she used wire cutters. Usually their fences annd walls are less easily cut due to their celebrity status/stalkers.
I’m sure she could have gotten out one way or the other, but how far without a car?
If a tree had fallen on her driveway due to fire, the fire must have been pretty close.
It was never said what made the tree fall. That could have been a result of the strong winds with a recorded 100 mph wind gust. Nor do I know what the sustained wind might have been. But the winds, that I believe they call the Santa Ana winds, were responsible for making the fire grow larger & larger.
wire cutters ... how disappointing ... i was visualizing Meryl heroically wielding a gas powered chainsaw, something like a Stihl or a Husky ...
She probably had to go back in her home to save Oscar.
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