Folks who have dug in on the idea that Lahahia was leveled as part of a Directed Energy Weapon test or attack will see this as misdirection, but so will the Climate Cult Global Warming wildfire crowd. Maui County has sued The Hawaiian Electric Company for negligence.
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The lawsuit said the destruction could have been avoided and that the utility had a duty “to properly maintain and repair the electric transmission lines, and other equipment including utility poles associated with their transmission of electricity, and to keep vegetation properly trimmed and maintained so as to prevent contact with overhead power lines and other electric equipment.”
The utility knew that high winds “would topple power poles, knock down power lines, and ignite vegetation,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants also knew that if their overhead electrical equipment ignited a fire, it would spread at a critically rapid rate.”
Maui isn’t suing Mother Nature or the makers of SUVs, or even Big Oil, so the sustained winds of the Climate Alarmists just took a hit, not that they much care. News of the lawsuit is getting reported, but not with the hyperbolic 24/7 hysteria afforded the climate-implicated complications before it. Imagery that will stay with people while the more pedestrian explanation scrolls off the home page or the Kyron into the archive.
That’s not to say there is no room here for Climate Zealots to claim new victories. The lawsuit alleges negligence on the part of HEC. They knew about the drought, the invasive, dry grass, and the high winds from Hurricane Dora a few hundred miles south of the Islands.
It is a hat trick of symptoms already peddled as a byproduct of man’s influence on the climate. It is the not-so-invisible hand of the climate economy. Weather equals fevered panic equals money laundering. More of that strategic chaos, not to be confused with actual man-made ills in places like Chicago, where crime is up exponentially thanks to the Democrat-made war on policing, law, and order.
But it is the same.
No alarms sounded, no water in the hydrants, and the government “knew about the drought, the invasive, dry grass, and the high winds from Hurricane Dora a few hundred miles south of the Islands.”
Maui County should be suing itself, but that would be silly, and there’s no money in it. The California Camp Fire was a raging climate catastrophe until the government realized how much money it could make suing the electric company it failed to regulate and supervise in the interest of public safety in a state that overregulates everything.
California forest policy also had plenty to do with the tinderbox that resulted in 85 deaths, but PG&E got the blame instead of bureaucrats, politicians, and policy.
And while Hawaiian Electric is “very disappointed that Maui County chose this litigious path while the investigation is still unfolding,” I think they know they are over a barrel. Progressive policy lends itself to disasters in the making, and someone has to take the blame when they lead to the strategic chaos not just baked in but necessary for those failed politicians and regulators to seize more power.
Lahania is a tragedy for many reasons, but the most important one is that the government is as much or more to blame as anyone, and that’s the last thing anyone involved will try to fix.
