Posted on 08/14/2023 1:13:30 PM PDT by Red Badger
HONOLULU (KHON2) — In a new map released by the County of Maui, estimates show the extent of the damage sustained from Maui’s fires. Those estimates were made based on visual inspection of satellite imagery and open source images.
An estimated 2,170 acres burned in the Lahaina area, with 2,719 structures exposed to the fire.
The map further estimates a need to shelter 4,500 which is estimated to need 3,560 gallons of water and 9,000 meals a day.
Gov. Josh Green asked rental owners to house displaced residents, stating on Wake Up 2Day that he would change the rules, as needed. Maui Economic Opportunity is currently taking an inventory of available housing to meet the needs of displaced residents. Those able to help can email debbie.cabebe@meoinc.org.
Notable structures that were damaged or lost in the Lahaina fire include Pioneer Inn, along with its restaurant Papa’aina. The Lahaina Arts building was gutted, though its banyan tree remains standing.
Countless homes, where loved ones gathered and generations grew up, make up the bulk of the structures destroyed. The estimated structures that were damaged or destroyed is 2,207. Of those exposed structures 86% were residential.
While the Lahaina fire raged, the fire in Upcountry continued to burn, the total estimate of that fire being $434 million. An estimated 678 acres burned, with 96% of that estimate residential. A total of 544 homes were exposed to the fire.
“Blackrock and the WEF. It will become the blueprint for the first “Digital City” or some such nonsense. copy this post.”
Yep... Rolling out the much touted “Smart City” model.
Amen! That money doesn’t go to help the Ukrainian citizens.
And God bless the people of Lahaina. 🙏
“Good taste” died here when too many FReepers aligned with the Soviet Union v2.0
This Matt Wallace guy...what do you know about him?
Mick Fleetwood Comments
Hawaii Inferno: Fires on Front Street
Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ajkMIw00WI
With some 1,300 people still missing following destructive wildfires on Maui, the death toll is expected to rise in the coming days. “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell reports on the devastation and recovery from Maui.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaCrXeg0RBc
Not a thing but Architectural Digest has the same info.
After over 15 years of living in Maui part-time, Oprah Winfrey spent the last few months majorly expanding her property holdings in the Aloha state, according to a report from local news outlet KITV4. The media mogul spent about $6.6 million on four parcels of agricultural land totaling 870 acres in Kula, Maui, per Maui Now. Two of those parcels were sold by ʻUlupalakua Ranch last month: one 520-acre plot for $3.89 million and another 330 acres for $2.47 million. Near the end of last year, Winfrey acquired an additional two 10-acre swaths of land, each for $100,000.
The talk show trailblazer already owned over 100 acres of Maui land, according to the report, meaning Winfrey now owns roughly 1,000 acres on the island. The acquisition was met with mixed reactions from local residents, some of whom worried that the purchase would contribute to the displacement of native Hawaiians.
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/oprah-winfrey-buys-870-acres-in-maui
40% didn’t have insurance. So either the cough up the money themselves, else sell out to a new generation of Lahaina residents. I don’t mean to be mean, but not a penny of taxpayer money should go to rebuilding uninsured as they had a choice and made it.
Death toll in Lahaina wildfire rises to 99 as hundreds remain unaccounted for
Hawaii News Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTMcB4ll_Tk
I have a suggestion for issuing the placards for access to Lahaina. Have those wanting placards to come to a large parking lot somewhere. Have someone screen them to see if they qualify, and put them on a bus to be taken to a county site for the placards to be issued.
That way there is no hub-bub at the county site. Just authorized applicants. Get some of the National Guard to oversee this. I think this would work, and be orderly.
The county has seen what doesn’t work. Now try something that does.
Exactly, major Dem failure, again.
in the world of Democrats...what most normal people regard as “failure” is seen by them as “success” ....
When Dems are “controlling you” then whatever is happening, by definition, is a “success.”
Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show
The finding adds to evidence that the island’s electric utility was the source of some reported fires on August 7 and 8.
August 15, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/15/maui-fires-power-line-cause
Surfer Kai Lenny slams government response after devastating Maui wildfires: “Where are they?”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maui-wildfires-surfer-kai-lenny/
Kai Lenny, a professional surfer and a Maui local, has stepped up in the aftermath of devastating wildfires as frustrations mount over what many residents believe is an inadequate government response. He is leading one of many citizen-run recovery efforts on the island, saying people in the fire zone have told him they haven’t seen a government employee in days.
He told CBS News that “some of us ... were kinda sitting back, waiting for help to arrive, and then nothing was sorta happening.”
“We were just in shock,” he said.
People contacted Lenny, citing a lack of help in their areas. He said he received texts and messages from friends asking if he could help, which led to his “boots on the ground” effort — bringing supplies to those in need with the goal of holding friends and family over until “the caravan arrives with everything.”
“And it was just like, day after day, ‘Where are they?’” he said.
“I haven’t seen one state, one county, one federal official at any one of the donation hubs where people are most suffering,” he said. “People are sleeping in their cars. People are asking for specific items now.”
Lenny likened the west side of Maui to “a third-world country” and said locals there say no one has come to help them.
“The Hawaiian people, the locals that have lived here, they just always feel like they’re the last to be thought of. And they’re like, the foundation of it,” he said.
Lenny said volunteers, some of whom lost their own homes and loved ones, have worked day and night at shelters and distribution centers.
“I wonder if the state, county, they believe we’re doing such a good job, they don’t need to step in,” he said. “But a lot of these volunteers have been going all day, all night for five, six days now and are exhausted and are waiting for a handoff, or at least a break.”
Today’s Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW_10UZiLn8
Drone footage of Lahaina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcVXTpmtBs
I’d like my auto and home debt to be erased please.
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