Re: Location for 8/19 board meeting (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

 > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:38:01 -0400
 > From: http://www.unumhumbrewing.com/~kevin.stube
 > To: http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg
 > Cc: Ian Reddy <http://www.unumhumbrewing.com/~ian.reddy>,
 > Laura  <http://www.unumhumbrewing.com/~laura.winter>,
 > Unumhum Board <http://www.unumhumbrewing.com/~board>
 >  
 >  We flew home on our scheduled flight which departed about 30
 >  minutes late.  When we took off there was one fire on the slopes
 >  of Haleakala.  When we landed back home about 11pm, we started
 >  seeing the news and all the tragedy.  We know the area a bit, and
 >  it is just crazy to see some of the streets we drove down that no
 >  one was on so we could get around the main traffic 12 hours later
 >  are just gone.  The surf shop where we had lessons on Monday
 >  morning and the pizza place next door were totally gone Tuesday
 >  night.  Our instructor was a local lady, probably my age, who
 >  lived behind the shop.  Her family has the royal patents to their
 >  land still, so she and her family have been there for hundreds of
 >  years.  We haven't been able to find out if she is safe or not.
 >  Sunday we did a boat trip to Lanai with Pacific Whale Foundation.
 >  Most the crew lived close enough to walk to work.  We know their
 >  main building almost across from the Banyan tree is gone, we don't
 >  know about the rest of them.  From the pictures, we haven't seen
 >  their boat in the harbor and its a big enough boat that even if it
 >  sank, it would be above water like some of the other burned out
 >  boats.  Its one of the biggest in that harbor, so we are hoping
 >  that the captain and a few other crew may have been able to get on
 >  the boat and get it out of the harbor.
 >  
 >  I am surprised that there isn't much talk about the environmental
 >  impact.  The first pictures of Lahaina harbor showed so much oil
 >  in the water.  The harbor itself wasn't a big marine area, so
 >  hopefully the currents are keeping that oil in the harbor and the
 >  oil isn't leaving the harbor and settling on the reefs and shore.
 >  
 >  Its hard to fathom, but people really lost everything.  Maui Wave
 >  Riders, the surf shop we always use lost the building from what
 >  you can see in pictures.  Its not just the building though, its 40
 >  surfboards, 100 rash guards for customers to wear during lessons,
 >  the surf booties, then all the merchandise they sell, decades of
 >  stickers from people visiting from around the world, their truck
 >  down the road that stored another 40 surf boards is gone too.
 >  Then some of the staff including our instructor Kahala lived
 >  directly behind the building.  So, they lost their home, their
 >  work place, all their belongings, and everything the company
 >  owned.  Its not like they lived 20 minutes away from work, so if
 >  work burned down, they still had their stuff or vice versa.  Its
 >  this way for most of Lahaina.  The people live above their shops
 >  or a block or two away.  So they lost all their personal stuff and
 >  the goods they sell to tourists.
 >  
 >  The school next to the Banyan tree is gone and they had just
 >  started school on Monday I think.
 >  
 >  Sorry for the sad email, we have been looking at how lucky we are
 >  to have gotten out when we did and not been stuck in traffic and
 >  how sad we are for all the locals whose businesses we go to almost
 >  every time we are there.  I am sure it is the same for Laura.
 > 
 >  A  toast,  but  not  cheers,  to  Maui
 >  
 >  Kevin
 > 
 >  On  2023-08-11  10:24,  Noelle  wrote:
 >  >  Did you fly home or go to another part of Hawaii for the rest
 >  >  of your vacation?
 >  >  
 >  >  This  reminds  me  so  much  of  the  Paradise  fire.  Very  sad.
 >  > 
 >  >  On  Thu,  10  Aug  2023,  Kevin  Stube  wrote:
 >  >   >  We didn’t have quite the adventures of others
 >  >   >  but it still was intense at times. 
 >  >   >  
 >  >   >  Knowing enough of Maui was helpful.  We did a few dirt roads
 >  >   >  to get around traffic and road closures. 
 >  >   >
 >  >   >  Sadly  we  now  know  one  of  those  lost.