Posted on 06/07/2016 10:54:10 AM PDT by MNDude
At the beginning of the decade, Alison and Ann Dadow were well-known yoga entrepreneurs who drove matching Porsches, as identical as they were, around West Palm Beach, Fla. In late May, the 37-year-old twins plunged over the edge of a cliff in Hawaii and fell 200 feet in a Ford Explorer, which crumpled like an old soda can when it hit the slick, jagged rocks peeking out of the Pacific Ocean below.
Ann, sitting in the front passenger seat, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her sister Alison was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and on Monday was charged with second-degree murder in Anns death. Shes been ordered to remain in jail without bail, according to court documents obtained by The Washington Post.
You could tell that she was very violently swearing at somebody else in the car, Lau told KHNL. She was mad and when she took off, it was in a rage. So she floored it and was in a rage as she sped past us.
Alison allegedly drove straight off the cliff.
Alan Akina, a contributor to Wake Up Today, told KHON he also witnessed the accident.
They just sped up, drove right past our van and turned off the cliff, Akina said.
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How would neglect of the highway forestall development on Oahu?
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The earth is nothing, if not resilient.
Can't tell when that was taken, but you can see a downhill stretch and a car for scale. IIRC, there were tighter stretches on the uphill runs from Lanai
Just couldn't get heavy construction equipment up that road and scaring the tourists kept all but the affluent from making the effort. Part of the Thomas-Lindburgh, effort was keep the native population and culture intact. Colonialists, but well meaning. And it worked for some time.
Final note: on that afternoon we were the only vehicle on the road coming and going.
We have sworn off ever going to Maui again due to the excessive tourism and liberalism that is the worst in the state.
I was on it in the mid nineties,wasn’t the driver,and probably had my eyes closed for the tricky parts.
I had similar experiences in Colorado and Norway.
I would NEVER drive on those roads.
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So Lowell Thomas and Lucky Lindy were correct to fear what eventually happened
Just remembered Hasegawa's General Store, small at the time and the rice paddies nearby.
In Honolulu you have to step over the homeless.
They were catching the last bus at night and spending the night at the airport-—open 24 hours a day.
They can freshen up(?) and snooze the night away.
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One of my best memories of Maui was eating at Mama's Fish House near Paia around forty years ago. Magical.
Hit it a few times over the years after, and after moving to Hawaii, took the Superferry over from Oahu, eight or so years ago after a twenty year absence and the place had changed so much we did not recognize it. You used to park on the sand lot, now they have valet parking.
Prices are stratospheric. Gone totally tourist. yet another reason to avoid the island. Yes I am conservative and like things the way they were.
Were told the entire island of Manhattan could fit with room to spare and not one roof tower peek above the rim.
Truly one of those events that has to be experienced first hand. IMax won't cut it....mebbe.
Had to be a kick-ass ride, one you wish video cameras were cheap enough for we peons to have back then.
No doubt about that...but it was 1977, and the pilot had a bit of a swagger, maybe former WO, and it was just the three of us over, ummm, unoccupied territory, his only charter for the day and hell, a chance to fly and show off to my wife, as was understable.
As for the cloud cover, it was the typical morning capture by the volcano, not all that deep, but still...
After the fly around inside the crater, the return was a more sedate run back up the coast to show us the best small beaches.
Back in NYC, we dined out on that story for months and almost forty years later still a very vivid memory.
Guessing from your nick, you’ve had a few such rides...
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