Posted on 08/13/2023 6:28:52 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
The fire in Lahaina is now the deadliest American wildfire in more than 100 years, with more than 5,000 struck turned being damaged or destroyed. Of the affected buildings, nearly 90% have been reported as being residential structures.
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My post was in relation to the $5.52 billion cost.
Even I am not that callous.
It was arson 100 percent..but notice the commie media doesn’t really talk about Hawaii so much anymore because it shows the Dems incompetence..the tsunami alert did NOT go out that could have saved so many times..the officials didnt set it off, well how come? there will be no investigation since Hawaii is a Dem state that is why Biden wont visit, he figures eh, whats the point, they will vote for him anyway
I apologize, I failed to notice you were responding to post #4, not to the article.
Homeless, probably and of course, they’ll bury it unless they can make $$$ off it. It used to be people could camp on the beaches but thinking that’s been outlawed.
No problem. :)
Could be, could be...
Our tornado sirens out here in the flatlands of Kansas get one good blow every day 12:00 noon. The first of every month they blow for 2 minutes straight. Every month without fail.
if its a guy in a MAGA hat they’ll blow this up even if he found the hat in a dumpster!
Heaven forbid if a real tornado comes at noon. ;)
Every day?
OOps. Monday thru Friday. Every day the city gubmnt is at work.
A real tornado they just let it blow and blow and blow! Thats the signal for every one to grab a beer and go out on the porch and look at the clouds.
he Peshtigo Wisconsin fire was a large forest fire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin, United States, including much of the southern half of the Door Peninsula and adjacent parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The largest community in the affected area was Peshtigo, Wisconsin, which had a population of approximately 1,700 residents. The fire burned about 1.2 million acres and is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history,[1] with the number of deaths estimated between 1,500[1] and 2,500.[
I didn’t hear that... not a coincidence, IMO.
Emergency sirens didn’t work, either, after two previous false alarms
Sounds like “gentrification” is coming to the island.
We don’t know the cause, but allegedly 80mph winds and very dry conditions is often a fire that starts on power transmission lines. A branch breaks out of a tree or the top of a tree gets blown onto the power lines either severing them directly and dropping energized lines to the ground or it touches two lines at the same time igniting the branch instantly which drops to the ground.
There is really only one foolproof way to avoid this and that is to cut power service when conditions are like this in the event of a storm. People would be very unhappy about that as well, but this happens over and over in high wind events and short of cutting down every tree even close to power lines there is really no way to win for the utility company.
Horrible fire and prayers for all those impacted.
That's still a lot. But y'all live in tornado alley so it makes sense to me.
It was arson 100 percent..
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Notwithstanding your ability to prove a hypothesis thousands of miles away, I would respectfully submit as I wrote above that those are extremely high winds at the start of these fires which were separated by some distance. It’s at least worth considering and the #2 most lethal fire, the Camp Fire, started the same way along with other starts in the same area due to high winds and power lines.
Three years ago we lost a small town with less wind than this after a tree top split and blew over the lines severing them.
If I owned a utility I would publicize that my plan would be to cut power when fire conditions are this bad with high winds. Just my .02 but somebody will always be unhappy.
Actually, it's something like that....
The Mystery of Coconut Migration
https://asianinspirations.com.au/food-knowledge/the-mystery-of-coconut-migration/
I’m in the mid-south USA and locally the utility companies do a pretty good job of clearing a wide swath around high voltage lines. Feeders to homes, not so much, if they are not told about them. A disadvantage of no human meter readers anymore, I suppose.
I just took down a walnut beginning to threaten the feed to our house — normally our power company will do it at no charge if you advise them of a tree hazardous to their lines, but they’d have come in and torn up the lawn (unusually high soil moisture this summer).
Kinda hated to lose the shade, but hate even more to lose power at a bad time! Dad was a Forester and taught me pretty well on taking down trees in tricky spots, which this also was. No worries, except for a second or so as the tree started to go!
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