Sugar cane
I live on Maui
You want to know the main reason Lahaina burned,
NAFTA
Pure and simple,
That area was a sugar plantation, since NAFTA the plantations in Hawaii died because they couldnt compete with foreign sugar primarily from South America.
Real easy, plantations died, cane went away, replaced by fast growing grasses that burn easy.
Add to that typical storm related winds and you have the recipe for this disaster.
Old old old wood framed structures mixed in with other stuff, lots of old shake roofs, and 80 mph winds, WTF else would you expect
So I did some more research and found this article from 2014:
20 Years In, NAFTA Finally Sours the US Sugar Program
Although the 2002 FSRI Act reinstated domestic sugar production restrictions, recent trade negotiations have complicated the USDA’s ability to control total US sugar supplies. NAFTA slowly relaxed restrictions on Mexico’s access to the US market. In 2008, Mexico’s domestic sugar industry was granted unrestricted access. Although the TRQs negotiated in the 1994 WTO agreement set soft but essentially binding limits on the amount of sugar imported from many countries, they have not applied to Mexico since 2008.
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Woke Hawaiian Official Stalled Release Of ‘Revered Water’ Until It Was Too Late To Save Maui
How detrimental is it to allow far-left ideologues into bureaucratic public works positions? The state of Hawaii just found out this week with a blaze that engulfed the Island of Maui and killed at least 110 people. A series of management blunders are being blamed for the deadly wildfire, but one incident in particular has frightening implications.
With wildfires ripping across West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners requested to help protect their property from damage and stop the spread. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late. The dispute involved the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ water resource management division and West Maui Land Co., which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions in West Maui.
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Exclusive: Is The Government of Hawaii Lying About The Missing and Dead on Maui?
I received information tonight from a highly reliable source who is on Maui and is involved with the emergency response. The source is a person of high integrity and shared this information with a mutual friend, who passed it on to me. The source says the situation on Maui is far worse than what is being reported.
Our mutual friend checked on the source last week and the source said the Maui government is covering up the deaths.
The source had just returned from a big meeting on Oahu convened to coordinate the response to the disaster. The source said that there are 2000 people missing and that FEMA estimates at least 1-2000 dead on Maui, especially Lahaina. It was essentially burned to the ground and the residents were told to shelter in place. Many are probably dead.
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Another crisis manufactured by the government coupled with another coverup. Let’s see how long they can contain the truth.
David DeGerolamo
They can cover it up until we forget about it. No one mentions Vegas anymore yet the same cop who was “incident commander” there is now the Maui police chief.
I am surprised the press told us that
160 years of professional American politicians screwing the American people. When will we say, “enough is enough” and take our country back?
Pro-Tip: We won’t, apparently.
I grew up on a cattle ranch on the island of Hawaii, it was owned by the company that owned the sugar plantations from Laupahoehoe to Honokaa and beyond, even the ranch was affected when NAFTA was enacted, beef prices dropped enough that it damaged the industry as a whole across most of the USA, just so ya know, every single one of the sugar plantations in the State of Hawaii are gone. Hawaii used to be the largest producer of cane Sugar in the United states. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost. And the best our idiot political class could do is push development and tourism dooming generations to come to service industry jobs.
Would you like an umbrella in your maitai mam
Who(m) will pay for this?
Who will get the blame? Climate change? Hahahahaha!
Some folks/politicians need to be Jailed for LIFE.
Imo of course
Yeah, jailed for Life. About thirty minutes if I had my way.
Management Blunders,, no. Installed to fail. Making destruction appear to be something other than the results of the agenda.
People died. Omg. 1-2000 DEAD!
Lest we forget what recently took place in Ohio with the train derailment of chemicals.
I just watched the press of the man ( can’t remember his title ) but he was in charge of the sirens.
The sirens are aimed at warning residents to flee from a tsunami. So if they sounded, people would have run INTO the fire not away from….
With that said and understood, I agree no sirens were appropriate.
Makes me remember when we have that civil disaster emergency stuff that has dried up and gone away. I remember stickers on cars and licenses so that the person volunteering for the disaster could get through traffic.
Hawaii needed 2 emergency sirens. That would have been reasonable and prudent.
What do legislators do? Do they ever look around for things they can improve for the people they represent? O wait, nah.. they let people and corporations ( sorry Mitt, we know those things are 2 different entities) come to them, grease their slimy dark palm and then release some document with no teeth that contains 400+ pages? I would love to know.
Hawaii is far left. Maybe even commie. The police chief in Lahaina is the same guy who was in charge of the Las Vegas massacre investigation. Hmmm. His name is Pelletier.
This doesn’t explain the “unusual” fire that was caused by D.E.W, Direct Energy Weapons. Evidence suggests this wasn’t a normal fire. Metals were melted on cars; the fires skip over blue and green. This was caused by corruption, pure Evil! And these fires are happening all over the globe. Lockheed Martin makes the DEW for supposedly military purposes. Put this kind of a weapon into evil corrupt hands… Lord help us!