'That's the price of living in paradise. We have rain and mudslides and devastating fires.'
MONTECITO, Calif. — In the town of Montecito, where the median home costs $5 million, Bentley drivers leave their car windows open as they hop out to grab something from the market and residents refer to Gwyneth Paltrow as simply"Gwyneth," it's hard to imagine anything ever goes wrong here. And most of the time, nothing does.
People are also reading… No one was killed or injured Monday in Montecito, despite more than 500,000 cubic yards of material being deposited in the town's debris basin during the 36 hours the storm dumped more than 12 inches of rain, said Montecito Fire Protection District Chief Kevin Taylor. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio The beachside town in Santa Barbara County has become synonymous with Hollywood types looking for a home away from the shutterbugs of Tinseltown. Celebrities such as Oprah and musician Adam Levine own property in Montecito, and royal defector Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, shot much of their Netflix documentary at their estate in the town.
The Project for Resilient Communities, a Montecito nonprofit organization, raised $5 million after the 2018 debris flow and used the funds to install nets high in the mountains that capture and slow debris as it slides toward town. Photos of one of the nets showed it completely full after Monday's storm.
"I'm not one of those to evacuate," he said, as he rode a Pedal electric bike around town Tuesday morning with a friend."But at like 3:30 in the morning, I could hear the boulders smashing against each other getting dragged down the road." With a massive storm coming back five years to the day that her family was torn apart, Cantin couldn't help but recognize the"cruel joke" that the environment was playing on Montecito and its residents.
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