What a wing nut. So many transplants that move out here believe that they have healing abilities and are on a higher spiritual plain than the rest of the common people.
Lahaina is NOT the largest seaport. All cargo ships and cruise ships dock 30 miles away at Kahului. The power was out because of downed lines, and the lines were setting off more brush fires.
Lahaina is used for whale watching boats, snorkel cruises, and sunset booze cruises. Lahaina also has very few, if any people who own property that are of Hawaiian descent. Lahaina is mostly white. In the outlying areas, there are a mix of white transplants, Asian immigrants, and local born residents descended from Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese sugar plantation workers that newbies think are native Hawaiian.
The Japanese plantation workers in particular, saved up their money and brought real estate and held on to it. There is a lot of mixed race all over the islands. If a local resident has 1/100 Hawaiian blood, they are quick to tell you that they are Hawaiian, since being Hawaiian gets all of the white transplants to think that you are godlike. Crazy? Yes, but true lol. Anyway, the Lahaina commercial district with all of its chain restaurants and tee shirt stores is mostly white and local Japanese owned.
Also, many times hurricanes drift toward the islands. When they veer off to the East of the islands, in Hawaii it produces awful humid and sticky stagnant air. When the hurricanes pass far to the south, which is rare, they produce dry, constant winds.
I’m sure that the recent transplant that wrote the article hears voices in her head regularly.
The hurricane was to the south of the islands and far enough away not to bring any rain, but there was also a very strong HP system to the north. The islands were between these two systems and the pressure gradient between the two caused unusually high winds which knocked down power lines, sparking fires in several locations that after long drought conditions where tinder boxes and the high winds spread flames and embers.
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.
“Lahaina is used for whale watching boats, snorkel cruises, and sunset booze cruises.”
Sounds like a tourist trap.