Is the grass routinely just allowed to grow? Has it always been allowed to grow uncut, if not when did that change and why?
I know here in blue Seattle lots of government maintenance types were fired/early outed/quit due to the vax mandate, some agencies remain shorthanded. I wonder if the same is true in Hawaii?
Remember the Hawaii nuke scare in 2018? I wonder if that has made local officials extra cautious about sounding alarms for things like this.
“Is the grass routinely just allowed to grow? Has it always been allowed to grow uncut, if not when did that change and why?”
Uh, we’re talking about wild grasses... Not native but growing wild ... we’re not talking about manicured lawns at Lake Union. You need to get out more.
“Is the grass routinely just allowed to grow? Has it always been allowed to grow uncut,”
I don’t think it was actual grass, but dead and dry vegetation from abandoned sugar cane fields. When I lived there it was protocol for the cane farmers to burn off the fields to maintain them. It happened all the time. CONTROLLED burns.
When they were abandoned nobody did any thing to do that. Already-burned cane fields might’ve acted as barriers and breaks for these fire.
I don’t know for sure - just my opinion based on what I saw there years ago.
It isn’t just Hawaii that fails to notify residents. It is everywhere. I’ve called in weather events and got poo-pooed to not believe my lying eyes. One was a 40+ foot flood. Apparently, our officials believed it was the parting of the Red Sea v.2 with the flood being in the county next door but not on our side of the river. We’ve also had 2 fires recently and my only warning was seeing planes with water buckets passing our windows.
No one is going to save you. You’re on your own. Give your children permission to disobey authority when their gut tells them to.
The grass grew because the plantations stopped producing and are now laying fallow. A “Canadian” (probably Chinese) company came in and bought the land now that it’s out of production.