Relief efforts.
Huh.
Most interviews with survivors reveal that not much is happening at all with respect to Lahaina other than blocking inbound vehicular traffic, and firetrucks squirting water onto smoking piles of turf. Residents and loved ones who manage to get into town are perhaps trying to do more but there is no fuel, water, food, electrical power or communications.
The dead, sorry so say, appear to be being left exactly where they are, or were at the moment of death, such that a reporter walking up or down Front Street sees them on the street or even in burned-out cars.
It’s feared that many hundreds or even into the thousands may have perished...a 9/11-scale local toll in terms of human souls lost. But in Lahaina tragically that is a much larger percentage of the population. So terribly sad.
I saw footage of the devastation this morning and it was hard to keep from sobbing. All those sweet wonderful people, it heart breaking.