Hey, it's Megan. I am recording this on Wednesday, January 15th. As many of you know,

exactly a week ago, I spoke with you about the fires here in Los Angeles. I lost my

house in Altadena, along with thousands of other people throughout the Los Angeles area. I don't know if there's

an official tally yet about homes lost. According to what I'm reading, the number of structures

destroyed is about 12,000. Most of those are homes. I know that 25 people have died so far. I'm sure that number will go up. Altadena, as I mentioned

last time, is a rustic, unincorporated community north of Pasadena in the foothills of San Gabriel

Mountains. I think the population is around 42,000. And my last dispatched, I described

Altadena in some detail. I talked about the people and the wildlife and just who lives here.

So if you're interested in any of that, I suggest you go back and listen to that one first,

if you haven't already. Anyway, since that dispatch, I have received such an outpouring of support that I'm just

overwhelmed. It's been really incredible.

And I wanted to do another message sooner, but the last seven days have been this

avalanche of tasks. I did not realize how much

I relied on things being delivered to my door until I literally did not have a door. For instance,

I spent much of the last two days trying to track down medication. I get it delivered in three months supply from mail order

pharmacy, and of course it was all delivered last week, a few days before the fire. And so as a result,

the actual pharmacy no longer had current prescriptions on file. And when I finally got the doctor

to call in new prescriptions,

the insurance wouldn't pay for them because they had already paid for the last supply.

The same thing is happening with my dog's medication and also his food, which was delivered in

bulk the day before the fires. Anyway, this is a hassle, but not an enormous deal. I'm not going to die without this

medication, at least not immediately. My dog can eat other food, although makes him kind of sick.

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