The Left lies. It’s what they do.
Maybe there were many more deaths, but it was for The Good of the State!/s
Besides the fault of government with the fires, I am going to say something thats not PC. What did the residents and business owners do when Lahaina almost burned down in2018? Where was the protests, lawsuits, discussion with politicians about the threat they faced? I know some people who lived in Lahaina, and it was a concern to them. But nobody pushed the government to do anything. I know, if that was my neighborhood , and a threat was looming my neighbors and I would be much more vocal, and pushing for action. The Hawaii mentality to not fight back.
Bush was pilloried for years for Katrina—- the problems they’re not even having been his fault. Yet this grievous disaster goes right down the memory hole
I’ve heard Hawaiians are pretty mellow.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate will just kill more of them to get what they want.
Things are so much simpler under communism...
No problems... No worries...
Compared to some of the other commentators I’m a newcomer to Hawaii-24 years.
I live on the Big island.
I do not surf, I do NOT go along to get along.
I do not buy into this special “Hawaii” crap.
Everything here is imported, from the “non-invasive”
native plants to the Lost Canadian geese that have adapted to life here that we call Nene, to the Polynesian invaders of a millennia ago.
Lahina will never go back to being a humble plantation town.
Nor will it become like the Mormon owned Polynesian cultural center on Oahu.
Hawaii is a single party deep blue state because in one way shape or form most everybody that votes depends on the government, the state’s largest employer.
Rich tourists in Lahina pay more taxes than a hotel worker living in Nana’s house.
I will be repaired and become another Maui Rich people enclave.
Rant off.