NEW — A video posted on August 8 at 6:43 am by a Lahaina resident shows a downed power line and flames.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) August 14, 2023
Maui residents are suing power companies that "inexcusably kept their power lines energized during forecasted high fire danger conditions."https://t.co/I9DG5MIvW1 pic.twitter.com/F0P7kTOJgp
JUST IN: Locals estimate that the death toll from the Maui fires is at least 480, more than four times the total the media & authorities are reporting.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 18, 2023
Why are they trying to hide this?
Locals are being forced to conduct their own recovery efforts and were horrified to find… pic.twitter.com/yAFA8t296U
Makes you wonder what really happed in Maui. https://t.co/K0zT8OH7mg pic.twitter.com/GTddszyquB
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 17, 2023
Disaster Relief Plane Flies Over Hawaii On Way To Ukraine https://t.co/lbFcW4MxaW pic.twitter.com/Dlpz0cJZep
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 11, 2023
Joe Biden to Maui: Drop Dead
Reporters GASP as Joe Biden runs from their questions about rising count of Americans DEAD from Maui wildfire disaster to tan at the beach: "NO COMMENT!" pic.twitter.com/MHOkr2kRUz
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 14, 2023
Joe Biden to Maui: Drop Dead 😬😡 https://t.co/cz6VTKvEwW
— Evi L. Bloggerlady (@MsEBL) August 14, 2023
$700 per household for Americans whose homes were razed during a preventable disaster. People stood in the ocean watching their community disintegrate and their neighbors burn to death.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 15, 2023
Seven. Hundred. Lousy. Dollars.
But $113 BILLION to Ukraine.
Good job, Big Guy. pic.twitter.com/UsWOb4GHx8
Hawaii went two to one for Joe Biden.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 15, 2023
All their native land is being stolen from them by Democrats.
My heart weeps for Maui, but this is what they voted for.
Their land will be taken from them now. Mark Zuckerberg is salivating. pic.twitter.com/0MmNDXPEZO
Hawaii will keep voting for the Democrats who destroyed Maui through dreadful, agenda-driven land management....
— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) August 17, 2023
I'm very, very sorry Maui happened and I'm even sorrier so many free people are ignorant, superstitious fanatics.
This isn't politics, it's reality.
ReplyDeleteHawaii pulls up to 300 inches of rain every year since ever.
There isn't much that'll burn on a tropical rainforest isle that's drenched, 24/7/nearly forever.
Hence, damned few fire departments, and almost nothing for them to do (except medical calls).
And unlike the West Coast, no water-dropping helos, ever.
They set old pineapple fields on fire on purpose, regularly, because nothing ever happens except the dried pineapple leavings burn.
Until they get a rare dry year, and stuff goes sideways.
Plus Lahaina was the former capitol of the island, and an 1800s whaling town.
You might as well blame blubber oil companies in the 1840s.
Sh*t happens.
That's all this is.
And if (R)s had run it, it would have done the Exact. Same. Thing.
Take that to the bank.
Well you don't know much about Hawaii. There are windward and lee sides. Hawaii does not get 300 inches of rain a year (at least not in Lahina)--not even close. It is on the drier side of the island. They did have a wet spring and a lot of grass and brush grew around town. Summer (as is the norm) is relatively dry. Add some low humidity and a strong wind and it was a tinder pile waiting to go up. But here is the rub--Democrats have run that state for fifty plus years. There were warnings about fire danger. There were things that could have been done to prevent (or at least mitigate) a disaster like this. This disaster was predicted and foreseen and was a failure of local leadership.
DeleteAverage rainfall in Lahaina is less than 14 inches a year. That is a little less than Los Angeles. https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/lahaina/hawaii/united-states/ushi0055
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