Posted on 08/18/2023 10:45:08 AM PDT by DallasBiff
My story of what happened:
The Strange Maui Fires
A friend called me early on the morning of Tuesday, August 8th and told me he had a strong urge to visit Lahaina that day. Tempting me with lunch at Cool Cats, one of my favorite eateries in Old Lahaina, I said “Okay. Let’s go!”
The 30 minute drive was without incident, without winds, and without any warning advisories. As soon as we reached Lahaina, all power got zapped. Cell phone, internet, traffic lights, GPS, the 911 emergency system (which is never supposed to go down) and the power outage caused every store and shopping mall to immediately close. Nothing was open
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I have a question for an islander.
I was there in 2000. There were tens of thousands(maybe millions)of acres of sugar cane and pineapple fields.
I drove through the fields coming down from Haleakala trying to get to Wialea.
When did they stop growing sugar cane and pineapples on Maui?
What was the reason they stopped?
Kind of like the "good Germans" who bought into the whole Aryan Übermensch cult.
Once you get people to believe that they're super-human, you can get them to believe that everyone else is less-than-human, and can be done away with. Useless eaters, etc.
This fire resulted from old infrastructure too.
Most areas prone to hurricane force winds no longer use wooden pressure treated utility poles. Even when you visit Cabo San Lucas, MX they now have concrete rebar reinforced power poles. Not wooden. If not the utility lines should be buried.
Obviously, these utility poles cost more than wood. So, the state of HI has to mandate in their contracts with the electric supplier that these need to be installed in the future.
Yes, BUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES are so much more captivating than the boring old truth. Winds blew lines down. The electric lines started the dead dry grass on fire. The fire was flamed/spread by hurricane force winds.
The question they should be asking is why is there now all this dry/dead grassland all over the island?
Because you force Dole out of business growing sugar cane and pineapples there.
“Lahaina is used for whale watching boats, snorkel cruises, and sunset booze cruises.”
Sounds like a tourist trap.
At first I thought your comment was harsh, but then I read the article, and it merely a series of some observations, disjointed thoughts, with bad conclusions, all based on her feelings and faulty “spirituality.”
I need to cut back on caffeine.
“These fires were indeed strange. The night before both my friend and many others claimed to have had very restless sleep. I personally experienced a strange flooding wave of energy in my head, almost like seizure activity, which I have come to identity as dark energy coming in. This flooding energy continued on and off the next morning, more so when I was in Lahaina. This told me there was directed energy involved in what was occurring.”
Because of this and a few other things I do not believe this is a true story.
Here is one of her publications.
Publications
Fractals of God - A Psychologist’s Near-Death Experience and Journeys into the Mystical
RinnovoPress May 1, 2014
A Journey into the Mysteries of Divine Creation
From one woman’s near-death experience, comes an astounding story that explores the depths of man’s beginnings and the very blueprint of creation. In Fractals of God, clinical psychologist, Kathy Forti, shares how in 2003 her heart stopped and she was helped to return to Earth by inter-dimensional beings of light whose goal is to bring healing to our world.
With this new guidance, she journeyed into the realm of physics and sacred…
"This was not just a random act of mother nature. It reminded me of the strange fires in Paradise, California a few years back which swept through and wiped it off the map. Their only crime was getting in the way of a high speed railway project slated to come through the town."
This is completely bogus. The Paradise fire started due to poor maintenance of PG&E power transmission infrastructure. The high-speed rail project is 200 miles south of the burn area and is not slated to ever get anywhere near Paradise. If she can make up stuff like this without any factual basis, nobody should trust anything she says.
She travels a lot.
“As my astral body traveled through the body of the Sphinx, I saw a cavity inside the Sphinx’s head and found myself shooting out through an opening at the top.”
“but i am being gradually attracted to a different conclusion, that maui and other hawaiian islands have governments that are historically inept and corrupt. the result of the corruption is that inept bureaucrats are appointed to seemingly innocuous but in fact important positions, especially in areas that are typically sleepy in nature most of the time, such as emergency management.”
That’s my thoughts in part. Bad management prior to and during the fire. Build up of fire fuel load, dry weather, high winds, power lines down, maybe a homeless person or two with a camp fire getting out of control ( maybe drunk and fire not attended late at night).
Many times a catastrophe is a series of cascading events leading to a climatic disaster, take out some of the events or factors and no disaster. No need for far fetched conspiracies.
Every government agency on the islands is run by corrupt imbiciles who run the state with “stick it to the haolis” and the locals love them for it. It was a strange place when I lived there.
Current high speed rail construction (that hasn’t laid a rail) is from Bakersfield (south) to Merced (north) and will be completed in 2030. ( sure).
Paradise California is almost 200 miles north of Merced!
I would put at her down as new age LYING wack job.
So she was still able to get the GPS signal but not the maps over the internet. It would be interesting to see if the time she lost signals that a major power or fiber optic line was taken out
Somebody here said that agriculture (trucks, burning, etc.) got in the way of the tourism industry, which also probably pays more for less work and is willing to pay more for the land.
Also, conservationist foundations have a lot of money to buy up land. I’m not an islander, though.
Her hukilau is completely unhuked.
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