Will Cane said this morning all assistance has been from private citizens and group. Federal assistance seems non existence.
It’s worse...I have been seeing videos and reading posts from locals who are saying that the State and FEMA are prohibiting the unaffected locals from other parts of the island, from bringing in supplies or food. One video showed a community group prepared hundreds of meals for the displaced victims in Lahaina and the government folks would not let them pass because they didn’t have a “commercial kitchen license.” The government folks were also confiscating supplies and prepackaged food items from the support groups trying to help. To get around the roadblocks that are keeping private groups from bringing in aid...locals have organized boat and jet ski aid where they can get to affected area by boat, then the jet skis are being used to shuttle the supplies from the small boats to shore. One such has been organized at Kahana, between Kaanapali and Kapalua. It’s just sickening. The government is doing all it can to prevent help from getting in.