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Just a temp spot. There is a test in a couple months.Iceman made Captain?
Good for you, brother. Congrats.
Ummmmm, sorry but no.For some perspective- Canadian wild fires are still burning - for months now.
This Maui inferno was a result of a combination of rare weather events and dry vegetation. Hard to see how much of what happened could have been prevented.
Monday morning quarterbacking is what the media does best.
It would also keep the tourists out while they rebuild and still keep money coming in to that part of the tourist economy.They said on the news that 2000 hotel rooms and 500 Airbnb's between Kaanapali and Kapalua were opening up.
IMO the feds should rent every available room and condo along that stretch of coast for the next year. Would cost a lot (prob $100M+) but it would give those people a safe, secure place to stay while they get their lives sorted out.
My buds have checked into Royal Lahaina and Kaanapali Beach Hotel today. One month for starters. One of them has cats.They said on the news that 2000 hotel rooms and 500 Airbnb's between Kaanapali and Kapalua were opening up.
IMO the feds should rent every available room and condo along that stretch of coast for the next year. Would cost a lot (prob $100M+) but it would give those people a safe, secure place to stay while they get their lives sorted out.
That’s pretty shitty but from the sound of this water wasn’t stopping this firestorm.Check out this article in Civil Beat Hawaii today: https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-to-release-water-for-west-maui-fires-until-it-was-too-late/
They are fighting over water rights, which is nothing new, but some don't even want the water to be used to fight fires!!!
It states: "Now the conflict includes opponents who do not want water to be used to fight fires, the governor said"
Stand by for rate increases.Complacency and sheer incompetence have financial consequences as well - the market has spoken.
View attachment 160617Hawaii Wildfire: Update from Peter Eavis
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The answers will be speculation but see JSC's comment. I don't know when the navy knew about the fires and the evacuees but surface ships all have a RHIB or two which could've been used to save people. I suspect the reasons they're not helping now are 1) leadership failure and 2) the casualties are higher than reported and many of them children. Remember the chemical spill in Ohio earlier this year? This is just how "we" handle disaster now. Having lived through several fires, there's no will or competence to fix things anymore.I was 12 years old when Hurricane Iniki leveled Kauai and I remember helicopters almost non stop going to Kauai, I lived in Mililani then, near Schofield, Hickam and Pearl Harbor. We'd hear them all day. Loaded up heading to Kauai.
Haven't seen sh!t going to Maui. Is it cause Hawaiians wanted the Military out of Red Hill water aquifer after they poisoned it?? Military being passive?
I'm not anti military, in fact I'm pro. I wouldn't exist without the Military and the Navy gave my father a life he could have never achieved on his own as an orphan during the Great Depression. Grateful. But why aren't they delivering food, aid, toilets, runways, bulldozers??? Why isn't there a medical ship off the coast?
I've always found it frustrating that Hawaii won't learn from the Mainland about how to do things or run government because they think they're different and lessons learned other places aren't relevant to them. This is now the biggest example of how it comes back to bite us but that mindset has been screwing residents for decades. Living in Summit County, CO and Maui county for 20 years it's amazing to see how differently government is run and decisions are made when the economy is so similar.More and more assertions of incompetence and culpability on the part of Maui County and State of Hawaii officials - and hundreds of people paid with their lives.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/14/the-guardian-view-on-hawaiis-lethal-wildfire-lessons-to-learn-from-a-catastrophe?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR004ajeFL_L8qYbas-U7WkxU84wsGtxxLgPwpETHyTvfxlptkv9VS0ox-E