A series of severe rainstorms has put actor Anthony Hopkins’ Malibu mansion at risk of falling off a cliff.
The 81-year-old Hollywood actor owns a luxury home by the beach in California, but recent bad weather has meant the house is now perilously close to the cliff edge. This also means that he has to begin working on it immediately or risk losing his $5 million home.
The area has been plagued by the disaster in recent months as many homes burned to the ground in the devastating wildfires there last November.
Several of Hopkins’ neighbors lost their homes, but he appeared to have escaped relatively unscathed.
There are several large tarpaulins that have been put up around the building, suggesting there may be repair works underway after possible fire damage.
However, the pictures show the other major threat facing the house as cliff erosion has left the building teetering on the cliff edge.
Recent storms brought heavy rain and mudslides to Malibu and they will only have exacerbated the erosion issues facing residents including The Silence Of The Lambs star.
While Hopkins‘ home appears relatively intact after the bad weather, there are plenty of stars who lost their properties in the fires last year.
Miley Cyrus and her husband Liam Hemsworth were left devastated when their $2.5 million Malibu mansion was destroyed in a blaze.
Actress Kim Basinger, reality TV star Khloe Kardashian, and pop singer Robin Thicke also lost their homes in the fires.
The wildfires of November 2018 were the most destructive in the state’s history – almost 300,000 people had to evacuate their homes and three people were killed.
Around 1,600 residences were destroyed in the flames, which were eventually brought under control on November 21.
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In February, which is one of the months in California’s rainy season, more than 18 trillion gallons of water fell onto the state. Despite the downpour, experts complain that the state failed to use the opportunity to collect the runoff and turn it into drinking water. However, the state did collect and recycle 20 percent of the rainwater.
The Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick told Fox News, “We will never capture it all, but we need to do a better job of capturing what we can. The challenge is: How do we capture more of that water to use it so we can use it during dry parts of the year? And cities in California have not historically done a good job of capturing what we call stormwater.”
Hopefully, Hopkins can save his Malibu mansion.
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