Posted on 08/28/2023 6:07:18 AM PDT by texas booster
Localized power outages were reported early on.
Trying to find an article about how some water pumps couldn’t be used without any power.
Certainly is true of the big city water pumps, and why they have diesel backup generators that get tested regularly.
At least, they are tested regularly by any competent city administration.
I have watched many of his videos ...
Looks like he may be onto something locally.
And still no one mentions the failure to mow the huge sections of wild grass that surrounded Lahaina.
Cut, clear, burn. Your path to wildfire safety!
“How hot do car fires(plastic, tires, upholstery) fires get in temperature? Wouldd they be hot enough to melt the glass and aluminum ?”
gasoline burns at 3550 degrees, ethanol burns a few hundred degrees hotter.
yes, car fires get hot enough to melt aluminum and glass.
You deserve a thumbs up for your post!
Thanks
I don’t know if it was intentionally turned off but power was out to thousands of customers due to the hurricane.
I wondered if it was an EV hybrid with a battery.
Power down the line (on the single string of poles where the single downed pole fell) would be tripped off immediately when first wire touched the ground. Usually that single power would be connected at both ends making a loop for the circular route around the island perimeter.
At 6:30 in the morning, you’d get a power surge or flicker as various breakers tripped and reset. No long power outage at all - except on the line on the ground.
12 Noon - PST
Hawaiian Electric stock is up 48% as I write this.
Their $500 million in municipal bond debt dropped to Junk status on Friday. The bonds were priced at 60-65 cents on the dollar.
I cannot find a current bond price or interest rate quote. They are behind pay walls.
The interest paid on municipal bonds is tax free.
Anyone who bought those bonds for 60 cents is dancing in the street right now.
Your price adjusted, take home, interest rate will probably be close to 9% - tax free.
And, when your 60 cent bonds mature, they will pay back 100 cents on the dollar.
What a beautiful trade!
The downside - Hawaiian Electric can still go bankrupt.
Also see (in regards to background leading up to fire):
‘It was a dictatorship’: former Maui police officers shine light on complaints against department chief
‘A’ali’i Dukelow, KITV News
Jul 29, 2022 Updated Aug 1, 2022
I saw video of the start of the fire. The wind snapped the power lines and they gave off sparks that started the fire. They were not de-energized.
Democrats and their sacred electricity and sacred water and blocking sacred roads out.
Hawaii’s Maui horror reveals what happens when government is broken
In the aftermath of the Maui fire that killed more than 100 people, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’ has never looked more frightening
Mary Katharine Ham
Fox News
Published August 28, 2023 8:00am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hawaiis-maui-horror-reveals-happens-government-broken
I know someone who was staying in Kaanapali (just north of Lahaina) and she woke up to no power on Tues August 8th, and her hotel had no power for the rest of the week (she left on Sat).
Maui dodged catastrophe in wildfires five years ago but missed an opportunity to prevent future disaster, residents say
By Lewis Kamb and Evan Bush
NBC News
Aug. 24, 2023, 9:00 AM PDT
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maui-officials-warned-lahaina-wildfires-2018-critics-rcna101515
“Officials also haven’t publicly released a county-commissioned after-action report to assess and recommend improvements to the 2018 emergency response, despite pleas by advocates and repeated requests by NBC News and other media organizations.”
Wind-whipped fire ravages Lahaina hillsides, destroys 21 structures
By Christie Wilson
Honolulu Star Advertiser
Aug. 26, 2018
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