Rebuilding Paradise: Holding onto Home

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This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

After major natural disasters, like Superstorm Sandy and the Paradise, California fires, why do some homeowners choose to rebuild, often in the very same spot, while others opt to move and start fresh elsewhere? We hear stories from people who’ve made these tough decisions. Then, psychology professor Susan Clayton and This Old House’s Richard Trethewey talk about what “home” really means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.4	Camp IC report of fire spreading to its structure.
0:35.0	3488, Hoffman.
0:37.9	I'm unable to get a hold of the IC down on Hoplin Road, and we have multiple structures down here.
0:45.7	If you can relay to them, I need at least five strike teams and down to this area.
0:52.8	On November 8, 2018, devastating fires swept through Paradise, California.
1:00.0	I can't get through the IC with 20 civilians.
1:04.0	We're completely surrounded by fire. We're taking a safe zone.
1:10.0	Camp IC report of a possible entrapment. RP advising me cannot
1:13.7	evacuate you to fire. Nearly 30,000 people fled the hilltop community that day. Eighty-five
1:22.1	people died and 14,000 homes were destroyed. It was the worst wildfire in California's history.
1:30.3	It was apocalyptic.
1:32.3	I didn't know if the rest of the world was ending,
1:36.3	but this world that involved paradise was ending at that time.
1:40.3	What happened in paradise, the deaths and destruction, well, that's happened before.
1:47.3	Superstorm Sandy, Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey, they also left people with no place to live and
1:53.7	with a difficult decision of what to do next.
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