“I'm in shock. It makes me wanna cry.”
Each day reveals new horrors from the Maui wildfires that have killed at least one hundred and destroyed much of Lahaina, a former royal capital of Hawaii, which includes a gorgeous old township that has had tourists swooning for two hundred years.
“Along the empty streets of Lahaina, the warped shells of vehicles sit as if frozen in time, some of them still in the middle of the road, pointed toward escapes that were cut short,” reported the New York Times. “Others stand in driveways next to houses that are now piles of ash, many still smoldering with acrid smoke.
“A few agitated myna birds chirp from their perches on palm trees that have been singed into matchsticks, the carcasses of other birds and several cats scattered below them in the streets.
“Across the town that was once home to 13,000 people, residents are slowly returning and sifting through the debris of their homes, some of them in tears, finding little to salvage.”
In an off-the-cuff airport interview with a TMZ citizen reporter, Kelly Slater described a pal riding his bike through Lahaina amid piles of dead bodies (“A lot more people have passed away than they’re talking about…the news hasn’t got a grasp on how bad it is”), another few pals who’ve lost houses, one only able to save his dog and a backpack and the horror of residents trying to escape the flames by jumping in the water only to find it ablaze “because of all the boats burning in the harbour and the fuel on top of the water.”
The Champ, who was en route to a first round loss in Tahiti after chasing the Namibian Rickshaw in West Africa, said he was “in shock…I just wanna cry.”
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There is a book by Naomi Klein called The Shock Doctrine
Worth a read , a history of rich capitalist ,s making a fortune from taking advantage of natural disasters and wars , destroy and rebuild , from Iraq to New Orleans and a bunch of other examples
RIP OLD Lahaina …
Pretty easy to lose the mind when those you care about are hurting bad. Just venting frustration which is healthy.
Relax! I’m not the enemy here. My point was that once a wildfire is raging, its almost impossible to extinguish. I’m not saying mistakes weren’t made but most of those were made before the fire started. Not recognizing the dangerous conditions that were present is the real error as opposed to a lack of reaction.
Allow a Town to burn to the ground? Fire doubles in size by the second and History has proven when nature roars no amount of preplanning really matters.
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IS ELO FAR BEHIND?
from the western journal:
“UPDATE: To clarify, Oprah was able to visit our shelter and we thank
her for instructing media journalists and camera crews to remain
outside,” the post read.
The County of Maui then proceeded to heap praise on Winfrey, a stark contrast from some of the divisive social media rhetoric.
“We welcome Oprah to continue to uplift our community’s spirit and
give her aloha to victims of the tragic disaster,” the statement
continued.
“Her visit inside of the shelter today was truly heartwarming and we
appreciate her understanding of our policy of having no camera crews or
reporters accompanying dignitaries and celebrities in our emergency
shelters. Mahalo.”
Kelly only cries for Kelly, no one else.
Logistical bottleneck. So many firefighters, aid workers, nurses, logistics etc to get on the island that will actually do something immediately useful. Your average guardsman is great for patrolling against looters and handing out MREs but 19 year-olds with M4s are just more mouths to feed while a natural disaster is still occurring.
Correct and the current CIC of the US Military is sitting at Rehoboth Beach offering “no comment” to reporters.
We know hes incapable of making decisions but the people running this administration have ZERO clue what they are doing.
Kelly always has inside info that the general masses don’t have. So informed.
Ok I get that however the point is how frustrating that they have that information, its close enough to pretty much see the smoke and yet sit on their hands? Also the old ‘there mustve been a technical glitch’ excuse for the warning systems. They go off for fake missiles and tsunamis that dont exist but dont work to warn people there are fires starting in their smart meters…
America , richest supposeded most powerful nation in the world and this repeated lack of government action when there are natural disasters within their own country, what the fuck?
Shootings , hurricanes , mudslides now the burning down of Lahina.super quick to intervene overseas but domestically crickets again.
No doubt somewhere already a bunch of merican capitalist snakes are drooling at the prospect of “rebuilding” (re developing)the fuck out of a clean slate of primo Hawaii
Cunts
Has Kelly ever once said “no comment”?
You nailed it.. “I’m in shock and you know I’m not even from that area” – makes it about himself (lost count on how many times he uses “I”)
Kelly: I’ve got friends!
Please post links to support your cnclusions, thank you
Hippy sounds like the Bush administration when those gosh darn “conspiracy theorists” started questioning the official 911 narrative.
Don’t be a Hippycrite bro
Bullshit, he’s correct to ask for reference. There are ton of story floating around about what is happening and has happened. Understandably, people are angry about what happened. That said, these stories are just that, stories. They also seem to have the same content of blaming the government, especially Dems, for what happened. Sometimes, things just go awry. Look at what happened with the California fires. These are not big conspiracies, they are tragic events that happen when all the wrong things come together at the wrong time.
And inevitably the people telling these stories don’t have a clue of what they’re talking about. Maui didn’t need guardsmen standing around with their thumb up their ass while the fire was still burning.
There seems to be some thinking that wildfires are controllable. Quick tip for all-you can’t control a wildfire once it starts, by then its too late.
Yeah what does Kai Lenny know he’s just born and raised there and has spent the last few days jet skiing from Kihei boat ramp to Lahaina ( not fun in windy conditions ) to bring supplies to the people who need it.
My comment was partially in jest as I know Hippy and we have a deep history of going to war on surf blogs. Back to post surf January 2009
I think.
And I agree with you that there are a lot of people lashing out at any/everything with no evidence etc.
But… all it takes is some research ( Google, Twitter, Instagram etc ) along with a basic sense of not being an idiot to come to the conclusion that there are many questions to be answered regarding a) the government response and b) the big corps attempting to buy Lahaina land owned by native Hawaiians ( I believe Archie kalepa family owns quite a bit ) and the Hawaiians not wanting to sell ( just from what I’ve heard )
a) There are always questions to be answered regarding the response to unprecedented occurrences. Real easy to criticize it after the fact. (the likely issue is related to what wasn’t done in the recent past as opposed to the response that would have been worthless).
b) I would think the land in Lahaina has always been of high value and attracting investors and developers (but this likely has brought out the worst of them). Again, this is conjecture as you are referring to something that you supposedly heard from a mystery source.
c) Government, big corp, greedy investors, etc. are not the cause, they are a result.
Asking for a source makes him a hypocrite?
Lets not forget just over the way on Oahu is a huge military base with untold resources. Sitting on their hands and blocking people from wanting to help bring in basic necessities.
If this doesnt raise red flags what will? The government will send literally billions to Ukraine to fight a proxy war even though no (or very few) US citizens have ever been killed by Russian military and yet the military and national guard stand there and watch as actual Americans and Hawaiians lives are destroyed by ‘wild fires’
Wakeup call planet earth.
They even tried to suggest it was because tourism caused climate change and want to reduce tourism ha ha yet the same people spewing that rhetoric fly here there and everywhere in private jets?
You Republicans love hanging our literal allies to dry.
Ukraine was part of ISAF and sent a brigade to Iraq
Your would love to forget the Battle of Khasham.
Your love for the traitor Trump blind you to the reality that they are trying to destroy our nation.
Most of us have moved beyond the R/D bullshit and have come to the conclusion that there is a uniparty in control of the country that is getting juiced big time and do NOT have the interests of the American people in mind.
I changed my affiliation from Republican to independent in April 2003 when we invaded Iraq based on a lie.
In my opinion the Country will not come together until we can all look at every issue on its own merit not through an R or D lense.
You mean the same iraq who had weapons of mass destruction?
Oh wait…
Ran by demoncrats! Hope the Wo Hing museum burnt down!
So, you are wishing a 100+ year old landmark burned down because what? You are a racist douchebag? That’s nice!
F’ China!!
Much better to print the work Fuck than be a racist piece of shit.
“Racism” is a construct for weak people. Im willing to bet your another white person who virtue signals. You guys should stop that, the World is turning against you, and ur virtuousity is see thru!
You are racist because you are wishing ill towards people because of their race, kinda follows the definition of racism. I don’t think my race has anything to do with your ignorance.
Chinese is not a race, Einstein. Get out of your zip code, and learn something.
Call it what you want. Your comments contain racist undertones and overtures. Feel free to hide behind the semantics though.
I don’t fucking care if you or any other person thinks I’m racist. I’m still convinced your a chalk white virtue signal person.
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? I could give a fuck what color your skin is. You’re a racist POS regardless of skin color.
Virtue signaler identified
Racism is a construct for weak-ass (insert whatever skin-tone here) supremacists. It justifies, in their minds, repugnant, anti-social, anti-human behavior.
Kelly blames something weird in 3, 2…
Would you rather hear the rest of the basically clone braindead pro surfers talk about their bro’s?
I like my world champs showing fascination with the mechanics of the world order.
I saw a insta post during a bout of insomnia, blaming Directed Energy Weapons, I scrolled the comments and noticed a @ke11y,