Today, I stopped in to get a manicure, and I was so excited that the salon was full of locals. As you remember, Lahaina, Maui, was incinerated this time last year. I know what the news told us, but I wanted desperately to hear what the locals had to say about the extremely odd circumstance.
Her story started so sad. She remembered where she was when she found out, and she remembers the fear and mass confusion. But when she got to the details, I was in total shock. Here's what she listed off from memory...
The power company cut power to the area before the fire started. It was intentionally turned off. The excuse they gave that day was due to a downed power line.
Lahaina saw wind speeds hit new records. "It was like nothing we've ever seen in the 50 years we've lived here."
"But it was so odd how the winds here weren't that bad." (She was referring to Kaanapoli Shores Resort, the area right above Lahaina.)
They said the fire started from the downed power lines, but that had happened hours earlier, and they had already cut power to the city.
No one outside of Lahaina knew there was a fire until the next day. News traveled very slowly, which was also odd.
No alarms went off. They didn't just cut power to the city but also to all emergency alarms. (That's not normal at all. They would be on two different grids and in no way necessary to cut when a power line goes down.)
"Authorities routed people down Front Street and then blocked them from exiting on the other end to escape the fire. They were ordered to turn around and head back into the fire. They were blocked from exiting there once they got back where they had started. Once the street was crammed with cars, officials forbid them from leaving the area in any direction. A local homeless guy rushed the authorities and yelled, 'These people need to get out of here; you have to open the road so they can leave.' He was pushed back and told, 'We have orders; no one is to leave.'" (Hearing her say this made me physically ill. She knows the homeless guy. Apparently, the locals all know one another; it's a small, tight-knit community.)
Nothing blue burned down. Nothing. All of the Tommy Bahama umbrellas are in perfect condition while everything around it is melted, even cars. (Cars don't melt in electrical fires or even forest fires)
Blue shirts in stores didn't burn either. WHAT?!?!?! How is that even possible???
The area is still under complete lockdown. Try to enter and meet face-to-face with men and large guns.
The local government has decided to turn the entire area into a memorial. In the blink of an eye, everyone just lost all of their property—the government just took it. I'm told lawsuits have started, and they are hopeful they will win and get their land back. Only time will tell.
There has been zero remodeling. Zero. They are telling everyone that it's underway, but according to the locals, only two buildings that had permits done before the fire have begun construction.
The locals believe their own government launched an attack on them and used DEW's (Direct Energy Weapon)
All you have to do is ask. No one talks about it until you ask, then they will tell you everything. These poor people have no voice and no one to fight for them. The truth never crosses the ocean.
This prompted me to look into other suspicious famous fires, such as the Oakland Hills fire, the Santa Rosa fire, and most of the fires up and down the western coast.
Things aren't adding up.
Besides that super sad encounter with a few locals, we had a wonderful day with more beach fun, full of rest and relaxation.
The view from our condo is rather spectacular. What breaks my heart is the area just around the corner; it's been completely wiped out. There's literally nothing. No one can stop to try and get a look, or men with guns meet up with you quickly and rush you away, but as we drive, we try to look through the temporary walls the best we can. It's gone, and it looks like a bomb leveled all of it. I don't trust any of the photos we see on the news. It's gone, all of it, and not because a tractor came in and leveled it after a fire.
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