Climate Change? Nahhh ...

A friend posted a story this morning from a native telling how Lahaina was in a wet area. But all of the man-made changes turned it into a dry area -- residential building, hotels, diverting water to difference places for sugar cane, pineapple and other agriculture. He said that Lahaina would have never burned.

 

Apocalyptic is a fitting description.

 

The idiots are coming out of the woodwork to claim the Hawaii fires were started by lasers. I didn't both to read to see if these lasers have a particular religious affiliation or not.

A friend and I were talking this morning. How hard can it be to evacuate people out of there? Dunkirk the place. "If you have a boat, go to Maui. If you see someone on the beach waving their arms, pick them up."
Furthermore, I guarantee there are amphibious ships at Pearl Harbor whose primary function is to drop off and pick up people from beaches.

 

Did you and your friend consider how fast the fire might be advancing? Or did you think it was going to sit back and wait?

 

Do you consider how many days this has been burning now? It's not like it just popped up last night.

 

I can't hit like on this, but it sounds absolutely believable. I can think of something similar that has happened basically everywhere I've ever lived.

 

Judge sides with young activists in first-of-its-kind climate change trial in Montana

 

We spent five days in Lahaina just 18 months ago - April 2022.

The first four places I considered staying burnt down.

The fifth is the multistory white building in the photo below:



My gf and I are wondering what the hell we would have done in several scenarios: what if we had been out on the town north of there, in a car, or on foot? Or if we’d been at the hotel - shelter in place or flee? No way we could have known that we were in one of the few buildings that survived.

Anyway, not to diminish the hell that people went through. Just thinking of the what ifs.

Sad almost beyond belief.

 

The entire 20,000-plus residents of Yellowknife, Canada, were ordered to evacuate due to an out-of-control wildfire.

 

Climate change? Bah.

 

I see your Bah and raise you a Humbug.

 

Yellowknife gets less total precipitation per year than the Arizona average (13.6 for AZ vs. 11.36 inches for the Knife on average, of which 6.72 is rain). Only Nevada is drier as a US state as a whole. That far north, not many trees probably but a ton of short scrubby conifers.

I hope they all got out while the getting was good in light of what happened in Lahaina (ironically).