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"There's nothing wrong with the air!"
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...
Posted on 08/23/2023 11:26:01 AM PDT by george76
Those who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived the disaster, while many of those who heeded orders to turn around perished in their cars and homes with no way out...
At least 114 people were killed in the fires earlier this month, and the FBI is estimating that up to 1,100 more are unaccounted for. Officials are facing increased scrutiny for the emergency response, including why the emergency sirens were not set off and whether closing the roads prevented people from getting to safety.
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Officials closed Lahaina Bypass Road due to the fires, blocking the only way out of Lahaina to the southern part of the island.
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One family swerved around the barricade set up to escape the flames, while another resident took a dirt road uphill to climb above the fire... However, many others who stayed in the cars on that road were stuck in a gridlock, with fires surrounding them on most sides
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Nate Baird and Courtney Stapleton recounted their experience to the outlet, saying they loaded the car up with their two sons, Baird’s mother and one dog to escape the flames. When they turned south to escape Lahaina, they were met with cones and were told to turn around to Lahaina, which was already burning.
Instead of turning around, they swerved past the cones and escaped to a neighboring town.
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we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. We would all be dead right now.”
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they had 10 more minutes, they could have saved children who were left home alone in their neighborhood during the fires.
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Kim Cuevas-Reyes said that she survived with her two sons by ignoring orders
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
See post 118.
Democrats tried to do that to Sarah Palin's church when some people were meeting there in the evening, IIRC.
Leftists are elected or hired based on their level of leftism, not for any experience, skills or merit.
What did Reagan say? It’s not that they don’t know anything. It’s just that they know so much that’s untrue.
Water is too precious for putting out fires.
The road is dangerous so you can’t travel it, even though it’s the only escape from worse danger.
They know rules but lack critical thinking skills to inform them when the time is right to break said rules.
Blind enforcement. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, all encouraged and exploited it.
We have it here now. We saw plenty of it during covid.
Puzzles me, too.
I'd think the cadaver dogs could have sniffed them all out by now.
Thank you for sharing. Heartbreaking. Astonishing the single structures that survived, when there was level burn all around many of them.
At 16:07, you can clearly see some of the orange barricades across the road, and how they had been pushed open.
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. —Matthew 24:40-42
Like THIS??
"There's nothing wrong with the air!"
One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...
I just wonder where they would go that's better than where they are?
Yes, back in the day they said don't give a dying cancer patient in agony too much pain meds; they might get hooked. (Until opiods became a gold mine business.) Or don't give the dying any experimental new treatments; they might die of them. Trump tried to right that wrong with his "Right to Try" initiative.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer“Two things are infinite: the univere and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” —Albert Einstein
People who saw the first plane hit Tower 1 and evacuates in spite of them saying don’t evacuate could get out
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Schoolboy Keyiro Fuentes had been home alone enjoying his last day of summer break when the deadliest US wildfires in a century started overwhelming his neighborhood in Lahaina, his mother, Luz Vargas, told CBS News.
“God maintained him like this. So, we knew it was him,” she said of her adopted son.
Heartbreaking.
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