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Dude who says all of Maui is brown, going to die, and has no primary attractions left says someone else is being melodramatic. LOL
And clearly you don’t know as much about the winds as you claim. Feel free to go door to door over there and ask people about it.
I said the central valley....which, btw, is now returned to being a brown, dead desert. Just like I said.
I already quoted you before but there it is again, in all its melodramatic wrongness.
edit: not to mention that part of the smoke pollution was them burning the existing pipe along with the cane, because it was basically impossible to harvest around it, and it wasn’t harvested until after it was burned.
And, again, the uncontrolled wildfires have been in places where there was no irrigation to begin with.
edit2: It’s still baffling that last part has to be explained for you. There have been no uncontrolled fires in any areas that previously had irrigation, because all the cane field road infrastructure is still there, so the fire dept can drive right to it. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled fires were uncontrolled because there were no easy access points, and there were no previous irrigation sources located there. It’s really weird, or just disingenuous, that you’re trying to conflate these two completely separate things.
And yet, there it is: an ugly, brown, dead central valley.
You will never, ever win this one. Sit down. And stop trying to make your point with the August fire and not the dozens and dozens before then. The area around Hansen road is still charred.
I don’t need to win anything with you. As long as other readers come along and understand that you’re full of shit regarding the overall state of Maui, or at the very least extremely confused about the facts here, that’s enough. You’re probably one of those who think the Olinda and Kula fires were started by a laser, and there’s absolutely no talking sense into those people.
edit: You’re the one who’s complaining about controlled vs uncontrolled fires related to irrigation or lack thereof. The only “uncontrolled” ones were in August, all the other previous ones since the cane has been gone were handled quickly, because again, easy access. So apparently your definition of uncontrolled is loose at best. You act like there were no random fires when the cane was still growing, which is absolutely false. Plenty of unscheduled burns by vandals in the fields, which weren’t easy for the fire dept to put out.
More rationalization.
Got sad news for you, brah… the cane fields are never coming back. Doesn’t matter how much you whine about it, and all the people enjoying cleaner air unpolluted by burning pvc don’t care that you’re upset about it. Get over it and get on with your life. Or don’t. It doesn’t really matter. What you want will never happen.
Yes, I know. Now all our eggs are in one basket, and with Lahaina gone. Congrats!
You’re still shortsighted about something. Find a way to cope.