Maui Wildfires Wrecking Havoc In Hawaii Right Now...93 Deaths Have Been Reported

[cobra]

i think the death toll will cross 1000

this is a 9/11, Katrina level disater

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I understand the dire situation. But it would have taken less than 30 seconds for people passing by to collect that woman and put her in the back. If she was my relative, I would've been extremely grateful if someone collected her even if she was dead, so that I can easily identify her body, then try to identify through DNA remnants of burned bones and ash a month later. But not everyone is selfless and I understand that and also don't hold it against them.

Dude I've been in burning buildings, flames all around me, smoke so thick you can't even see, had to go to the ER afterwards because they thought my lungs might be messed up. I could have died. You have no idea what fire is and how fire moves and how one wrong move could mean the end of you.

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

 

[Oatmeal]

I live in Fresno and when the Sequoias are on fire we feel it over a hundred miles away. The ash and soot in the air is terrible. The heat is the least of your worries. Breathing gets difficult as fukk. Most people are out of shape and lose their breath and struggle to walk if the temperatures reach 90 degrees.

Man it was hard to breathe in Cleveland for a few weeks when the smoke from the Canadian fires were in full force, it was like COVID, all over again everyone had masks on and the air was just heavy and my eyes were constantly itchy, visibility was terrible...

 

[MrLogic]

RIP to the victims

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Donating a bunch of stuff this weekend and in the incoming weeks.

shyt is fukked up. I have my issues with Hawaii but Maui was really one of my favorite islands and full of chill people

 

[old pig]

damn.

 

[old pig]

and when you're looking through bodies in the aftermath its almost always the same shyt. people are trying to do something like the force of nature on your neck is secondary. trying to finish packing. trying to get wrangle the dog. trying to make sure the place is locked up before they pull out. going back for a phone charger. putting on makeup. etc. its not campfire, convenient flames out there.

this paragraph in particular caught my attention…I remember a woman dying in a cali wildfire cuz she thought she had time to put on her makeup as bizarre/silly as that sounds

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Now I understand why dude was crying and he was.miles away when it all went down

 

[3rdWorld]

Consequence of climate change..it should be wet out there this time of year.
Vegetation has to be dry..and it's an Island.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

Nature >>>>>>> Man

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Consequence of climate change..it should be wet out there this time of year.
Vegetation has to be dry..and it's an Island.

Maui never been that wet and winter is Hawaiis wet season

Honestly, it was a combination of the hurricane winds and whatever started the fire. There have been other wild fires but this was something else entirely

the wind was crazy strong, damn near knocking people over while walking

 

[Paradoxx]

Things will just get worse, got half the planet burning and the other part drowning

 

[MenacingMonk]

It’s insane. Wonder how it all started.