How Two Words from a 24-Year-Old Pasadena Climate Specialist Saved Hundreds of Lives
by Phil Hopkins, January 11, 2025
A “wind event” was coming, scheduled to peak during the night of January 7th with near-hurricane force gusts, and Edgar McGregor knew it had the potential to be dangerous.
Very dangerous.
So McGregor, a part-time Los Angeles County park aide at Eaton Canyon Natural Area, leader of the Altadena Weather and Climate group on Facebook, publisher of the WeatherMcGregor service on Patreon and perhaps more widely known as the young guy who videoed his 1,997 daily trash pick-ups in the local foothills, started advising social media followers to be prepared.