Kids who get free school lunches rejoice!
I am currently somewhere between Salt Lake City, Utah on the way to Jackson Hole, Wyoming holed up with family in a roadside hotel while a winter storm rages outside. All things considered not a bad situation or not as bad as it could have been.
A big storm hit Maui just a few days ago, for example. A huge storm and created maybe the biggest Jaws ever. Unsurfable sure but still a spectacle and people drove from near and far to see the extra-large breakers.*
Well, the Maui government rubbed its proverbial hands together and got rich. How? Let’s read the Maui News Now story titled Multiple Parking Violations at Ho’okipa Amid Mega Surf.
Maui police responded to reports this evening of multiple parking violations at Hoʻokipa Beach Park with reports of hundreds of vehicles at the location throughout the day.
High surf of up to 60 feet was being forecast for the north shores of Maui, attracting spectators and “triggering a multitude of illegal parking on the Hāna Highway” according to Nāpua Hūʻeu, a Resident Volunteer Organizer with The Kua Hawaiʻi Project.
The organization website describes the group as a resident volunteer program to enhance visitor safety and protect the sacred sites of Hawaiʻi.
Group organizers say the motorists created delays and hazards at various points along the scenic North Shore route. “High winds and rains added to the fragility of the scene with visitors traversing down the beach cliff side to, as one visitor noted, ‘photograph the surf up close,’” said Hūʻeu.
So see? My current situation could have been worse. I could have gotten a parking ticket.
*How do you feel when folk refer to waves as “breakers?” Have you ever used legitimately?
Wasn’t there a thing where they broke every bone in the guy’s (still living) body and then rolled him up…? (shudders)
I stayed at The Breakers in Waikiki once. Sounds better than it actually is.
I think Wardo used breakers for years. But typically it referred to his wife versus anything happening at T Street
Throwing hay-breakers?
Chas, since you’ve mentioned Hawaiian keiki and with my thinly disguised hatred of corporate surf profiteers I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Volcom donated $65k to the Boys and Girls Club of Hawaii after the Pipe Pro.
A chunky amount to a very good cause. Cheers
They do it every year and that’s why they score waves every year.
Crowd surfing at a rock concert looks fun and all, but make no mistake about it, there’s always a shallow breaker on the inside ready to ruin your ride with a swift punch to the nutsack.
Only a crowd surfer knows the feeling…of hundreds, if not thousands of strangers’ grimey hands.
I prefer “roller” over “breaker”
Comber’s my go-to
White whoreses.
Nat Young loved his curls
Yes I was gonna say it’s “mighty Pacific rollers” in these parts
As an aussie born British lad certain parts of my body swell with pride when I see the union jack on the Hawaiian flag, and the kiwi one too.
Oh yeah,to see it gone would be a real heart breaker!.
In 1843 British Admiral Richard Thomas of the HMS Dublin sailed thru the breakers of Honolulu harbor and raised the Hawaiian flag with Kamehameha III, affirming and recognizing the
independence and sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the friendship
of the British government. The eight stripes represent the eight main islands with the union jack a homage to the Brits. 50 years later, greedy American pricks illegally overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom’s constitutional monarchy. Hawaiians still claim independent nation sovereignty.
Im a real history buff so im loving that info!!
Its cant be a coincidence that nearly all the British colonies have become first rate countries,yeah theres a few duds in Africa but compared to the latino colonies its no contest. So why is it so?
I dont know but probably corruption is more ingrained in the southern european cultures
australia is far from a first rate country . and england is a fucking shithole due to tory corruption – see brexit. so, …
Alex Salmond is coming up as a right creep eh?
proper fuckwit
“Come lassie, I’ve got a piece o’ the Stone O’Destiny in ma pocket. Do ye want tae touch it?”
Woah. I mean get real.
How would you describe most of Asia?
same. my cynicism is universal.
Fair nuff.
take another hit, Hawaii would be a complete shithole if it weren’t for the American Taxpayer. I live on the Big Island, I know.
Got no dramas with uncle Sam. Doin their best in a tough spot I reckon.
Doesn’t the US military still bomb the shit out of the big island?
yeah but I miss those old days when we would just eat you for dinner
Because you need a history course…all roads lead to Rome…look up the 3 corporation that rule Western. Society….now have another bong hit.
Works for me.
As the Polynesians spread and evolved from West Java, through New Guinea and out into the Pacific and they came across another culture: How did they treat that culture?
They killed them and ate them.
See: The Moriri of Chatham Island and what the mainland Maori did to them after the haole tipped them off there was an isolated Maori culture out there beyond the horizon.
So it’s okay for the Polynesians to subjugate other cultures and commit genocide, but when the haole did the same to them it’s wrong?
The Hawaiians were warring, enslaving and killing each other when Cook showed up.
That’s just the way humans are. The haole were smarter, higher tech, more mobile, better armed, and they took the Hawaiian Islands from the Polynesians, as the Polynesians took islands from other cultures as they spread through the Pacific.
So – tough beans,
Colonialism ain’t a pretty business, wouldn’t say I was proud that our flag is all over the world. My pride rests with Prog Rock, David Attenborough and Frodo Baggins.
There’s nothing pretty about intertribal cannibalism or collecting heads as trophies either, not to mention sacrificing infants.
If you look you will find horror in anything.
I’m not denying that native populations weren’t an equally violent bunch, I was just saying be careful how proud you are about the British empire. You come across as a bit of a drongo if you stick up for slavery and genocide.
Some great points if you read real history, not the one being taught in schools by the winners of war!
Fair nuff.
“When it came to the unwritten code of deep discounts for the Mayor at the butcher and other local businesseseses, there were only a few rule-breakers, who refused to acknowledge his importance.”