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Lahaina Reopens To Residents, Business Owners After Devastating Wildfire
OANN ^ | 12/23 | James Meyers

Posted on 12/13/2023 4:56:30 AM PST by spirited irish

After suffering devastating wildfires in the area of Lahaina, a historic town in Maui, it has officially reopened to residents and business owners.

The move announced on Monday, comes three months after the deadly wildfires torched the island and killed over 100 people.

Areas that were reopened included the Banyan Tree Park, with the 150-year-old banyan tree burned in the August wildfires that takes up over an acre of land, according to the Associated Press.

(Excerpt) Read more at oann.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: devastation; lahaina; maui; wildfires
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1 posted on 12/13/2023 4:56:30 AM PST by spirited irish
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To: spirited irish

Aloha!


2 posted on 12/13/2023 4:59:54 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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3 posted on 12/13/2023 5:09:47 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: spirited irish

Did they ever find all the missing people?


4 posted on 12/13/2023 5:09:53 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: spirited irish

Wait, so Oprah isn’t taking the town over?


5 posted on 12/13/2023 5:21:14 AM PST by struggle
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I thought that there were issues with property lines. At any rate, it is good to see that they are starting to rebuild. Now hopefully all of the billionaires will not have access to buy the properties.


6 posted on 12/13/2023 5:23:39 AM PST by Dacula
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Did they ever find all the missing people?

To Oprah and her pals their just little people and won't be missed.

7 posted on 12/13/2023 5:34:41 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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My jaundiced theory is that there were a lot of fake names on the rolls for welfare fraud.


8 posted on 12/13/2023 5:42:07 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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As good a theory as any, really.


9 posted on 12/13/2023 5:48:57 AM PST by Sirius Lee (I am going to keep SPAMming the meme "I see Freepers bickering..." where applicable)
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To: spirited irish

Why was it closed for so long?


10 posted on 12/13/2023 6:06:54 AM PST by Rural_Michigan
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Will the people take it sitting down? I think they will.


11 posted on 12/13/2023 6:28:06 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DeplorablePaul
Makes a whole lot more sense than 1,000+ kids burned up in the fire and "disappeared".

Makes more sense because nobody seems to be concerned.

12 posted on 12/13/2023 6:42:22 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

Why was it closed for so long?


EPA addressing hazardous materials.


13 posted on 12/13/2023 6:43:19 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: DeplorablePaul

It appears that most of the missing people weren’t missing, but were elsewhere.


14 posted on 12/13/2023 6:44:02 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: spirited irish

The Banyan Tree suffered a lot of damage, but has widely been putting out new leaves over the core portion of the tree.


15 posted on 12/13/2023 6:45:22 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: spirited irish

I’ll bet they paint all the roofs blue now! Only way to ward off those pesky lasers from space.


16 posted on 12/13/2023 6:50:17 AM PST by chuck allen
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https://www.darpa.mil/program/high-energy-liquid-laser-area-defense-system

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theres also a darpa laser on top of mt.Haleakalā.

just sayin.


17 posted on 12/13/2023 8:04:10 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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Haleakalā, MAUI


18 posted on 12/13/2023 8:04:41 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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Haleakalā, MAUI


19 posted on 12/13/2023 8:04:43 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: spirited irish

Drove through the “bypass” a couple of weeks ago, and there are places that were “blow torched”, meaning very little to nothing standing. But “downtown” was blocked off, so I didn’t get to see it.


20 posted on 12/13/2023 10:28:25 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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