‘Short drove down toward the Pacific Coast Highway, only to find the exits from his neighborhood were clogged. He remained in his car, where it took him more than an hour to cover a distance that would normally take five minutes,’ Abe recounted in his article.

As containment and recovery from the wildfires in Southern California continue, many celebrities have shared harrowing stories about how they escaped the fires. Now, Meryl Streep's nephew Abe Streep revealed the drastic action that the Oscar-winning actress had to take in order to leave her property after the area received an evacuation order at the start of January.