Maui Travel Advice Wanting Following Governor's Monologue

Maui Travel Advice Wanting Following Governor’s Monologue

Promised guidance from the governor didn’t happen. And contentious press conferences are now fewer in number.

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34 thoughts on “Maui Travel Advice Wanting Following Governor’s Monologue”

  1. Don’t blame the Gov it was the local public sector that underperformed, along with local celebrities telling people to stay away.

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    1. Hawaii has no marketable resources, except agriculture, which they’ve done their best to kill. Tourism is their only viable product and tourism can’t be exported. So good luck to the governor and to his fantasy of moving the state beyond tourism. We’ve been visiting the islands for over forty years. During that time, we’ve noticed a trend of distain and resentment towards tourists. It would behoove Hawaiians to restore the spirit of aloha before they kill their only cash cow. There are alot of other beautiful places to visit.

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  2. Is someone going to cover the large discrepancy between the amount of people missing (1000+) and the number of recorded deaths (114)? It seems odd to me that the gov says they have “searched 79%” of the area and only found this many dead. Could you cover this in an article? Thanks so much!

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  3. For people who are homeless hope you provide a place for them to live at least for a year.Money that’s going for relief I hope and pray that money goes to the..Build tiny homes or something.. Please help them..I pray for y’all and safety..Pray for the loss..My heart is with you..May God bless you each..Hugs Thank you

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  4. I have a trip booked the end of January to kaanapolia Beach hotel. Not sure if I should cancel as I do not want to disrespect the Hawaii culture.

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  5. With titles come responsibilities and unfortunately, many Failed the innocent people in Lahaina and not they need to be adults and accept the consequences! AS the study after hurricane Lance showed, all of the or lots of it could have been prevented and even then, Governor Green who was a LT Governor then, knew of all of this! Shame on them!

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    1. Yes, it seems like every August has been ‘hurricane season’ for the last decade at least. The West Side fire during Hurricane Lane in 2018 seems to have started pretty much the same way, and seemed very serious… until now. That 2018 fire was almost nothing compared to this, but it should have been a constructive lesson. One person died, homes were lost, and lives turned upside down.

      The cries that “this has never happened before”, and “how could we have known?” just don’t ring true for me. Praying for courage in our leaders to work together for a better future. “The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness” King Kamehameha III

  6. Aloha and please come to Kahana. Nothing is burned out here. We have vacancies and the individual owners of our units would all say, “E komo mai” – Welcome!

    Bring your children before they have to return to school. Much of the area of northern West Maui is pristine and beautiful.

    Mahalo in advance for supporting our economy, which has become even more important to Maui due to recent unspeakable losses. Our hearts and minds, thoughts and prayers are with our friends who have lost loved ones, homes, and livelihoods. E hana kakou to improve Maui and move forward together.

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    1. The official use of the Maui sirens is for tsunamis, wild fires and any other urgent public alert that needs to be issued. No one is blaming the sirens, which were in good working condition. Sirens do not turn themselves on automatically but maybe this could be programmed into the system as a future improvement. Then we will not need to rely on a human who decides that people are too stupid to know not to rush in the direction of a burning area.

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      1. You are wrong. The sirens are exclusively for tsunamis. That was their original intention and people were trained to run to the hills (in direction of fire). Many more would’ve died. He should be hailed as a hero.

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        1. Hi Charles.

          To clarify, here’s what the governor said today. “Do I wish those sirens went off? Of course I do. And I think that the answer that the- the emergency administrator for Maui, who has resigned, said was, of course, utterly unsatisfactory to the world. But it is the case that- that we’ve historically not used those kinds of warnings or fires.”

          Aloha.

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          1. Lol. Politicians always feel for the direction of wind before talking. The guy who didn’t sound the sirens was not an elected official and did not deserve to be the scapegoat. The people of Maui have learned a great lesson. Don’t just fight for the proper use of the land. Fight for proper infrastructure like underground power lines, both tsunami sirens and fire sirens, and better access roads into and out of Lahaina.

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        2. The sirens were used as a pre warning prior to Hurricane Iniki’s devastation of Kauai-the sirens gave Kauai residents an early warning of the impending disaster

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  7. My prayers and thoughts are with the Lahainians people. I feel so blessed that my son could come visit us and I could put my arms around him. He considers Lahaina to now be his home for the last 5 years. Others were not as fortunate as my family.

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