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What do you do in an emergency? Do you follow the rules or do you do whatever it takes to survive?
Among the legion of catastrophic government failures in the Hawaii wildfires, which included the failure to sound sirens or release water, were the barricades that cost lives instead of saving them.
In the early hours of the Maui fires, there were more than 30 power poles downed alongside the Honoapiilani Highway at the south end of Lahaina — a historic town that was decimated in the fires earlier this month. Officials closed Lahaina Bypass Road due to the fires, blocking the only way out of Lahaina to the southern part of the island.
One family swerved around the barricade set up to escape the flames, while another resident took a dirt road uphill to climb above the fire, according to the AP. However, many others who stayed in the cars on that road were stuck in a gridlock, with fires surrounding them on most sides with the ocean on the remaining side.
Nate Baird and Courtney Stapleton recounted their experience to the outlet, saying they loaded the car up with their two sons, Baird’s mother and one dog to escape the flames. When they turned south to escape Lahaina, they were met with cones and were told to turn around to Lahaina, which was already burning.
Instead of turning around, they swerved past the cones and escaped to a neighboring town.
“Nobody realized how little time we really had,” Baird said. “Like even us being from the heart of the fire, we did not comprehend. Like we literally had minutes and one wrong turn. We would all be dead right now.”
Baird told the reporter that if they had 10 more minutes, they could have saved children who were left home alone in their neighborhood during the fires.
“The kids just don’t have a filter. So their son ran up and was just telling our son, you know, ‘This kid is dead. This kid is dead.’ And it’s like, all my son’s friends that they come to our house every day,” he said. “And their parents were at work, and they were home alone. And nobody had a warning. Nobody, nobody, nobody knew.”
Kim Cuevas-Reyes said that she survived with her two sons by ignoring orders to turn right onto Front Street, which has now been devastated by the fires. Instead, she turned left and drove in the wrong lane to escape the town.
“The gridlock would have left us there when the firestorm came,” Cuevas-Reyes, 38, told the AP. “I would have had to tell my children to jump into the ocean as well and be boiled alive by the flames or we would have just died from smoke inhalation and roasted in the car.”
Leftists have destroyed both the basic functionality of government and common sense. They keep claiming that all of their rules are vetted by experts and follow the science, when they’re actually dangerous incompetent idiots who get people killed. We saw this during COVID, but really we were seeing what goes on every day. From Uvalde to the Hawaii wildfires, a combination of one-party systems, corrupt bureaucracies, and affirmative action leads to idiotic corrupt systems that get people killed.
And in the face of that, some people are still trained to follow orders. When your family is in the car and there are flames behind you, but a barricade in front of you, do you hit the gas or obediently go back?
The answer to the question has great implications for all of America.
That depends on if you’re true Hawaiin.
HIT THE GAS! Between your life and authority, your life is more important. They know they are wrong, so YOU take charge.
Dou you trust your beloved Dem government or not?
Dem govmints over time have accrued much value in Hawaii although I’m pretty sure Dev govmints over time was how they accrued value in Hawaii.
Actually. people in Hawaii have no understanding that they are only an experiment.
They think their land is so beautiful that couldn’t possibly be the case.
Actually. it is that beautiful but not so beautiful it really awoke them. What else have they ever known?
No understanding whatsoever and what’s more they newly regret thugs,
They think they are super complicated but what is sure is that they are mostly completely understood by the most basic methods.
The problem basically is that have you nothing notwithstanding the media to understand the world around you. Without Trump what do you have? Less.
You understand basically nothing because you can’t view anything outside of the prism of yourselves..
WTF, Una? Are you on LSD or something?
And barricades or a fire? I’d plow right through them, especially if I had kids with me. I’m sure you would, too.
Yeah, excellent coverage by Daniel of a real life dilemma. I remember one time driving home past Sears Point Raceway there was a total traffic jam on the freeway lasting for hours. Fortunately we and some others turned around and drove the wrong way on the freeway until we got out of there, and found an alternative route home. It was quite interesting to see the behavior of the masses of drivers, a large number did turn around and drive the wrong way on the freeway, as common sense would dictate.
Someone needs to pick up his prescription at the drug store. Or maybe its the alignment of the stars or the full moon thats coming in a few days.
Una is a chick. But she’s definitely inbibing some kind of intoxicant. Probably gin, because she’s British.
Hawaiians will re-elect every single politician and Biden in 2024. Mark my words.
Leftists inherently don’t think intelligently, as they are trained and accustomed to follow the groupthink of their cult’s elders, as well as follow their cult gospel, as disseminated by their likewise brainwashed media gurus. Not independent thinkers, their inexcusable behaviors and attitudes and gullible stupidity are the result. Also the element of intolerance (including racism, elitism) is a major part of their mindset, hence their contempt for democracy and law. They only see those who disagree as “deplorables”. The worst part of bring part of the leftist herd is their willingness to be “good soldiers following orders ” – not with an alliegence to their country or Judeo Christian values, but to the treacherous leaders -, like Obama and Soros
Everything you say is right, Marv, but all those mindless bank tellers of evil take orders from above. There is a reason everything is going wrong, everywhere all at once. Chance could not produce such a thing. The only rational explanation is intelligent, powerful people in public and private positions with multinational reach and influence coordinating efforts according to agreed-upon plan.
I know it sounds like the nutcase conspiracy theory of the paranoid schizophrenic, but there is no other good explanation.
“A lot of stuff Liberals purpose and implement is cute and fodder for poking fun at but when it comes to life and death situations, the liberals will get you killed. ” – Ann Coulter
Another senseless tragedy. These are becoming commonplace in America.
Time to throw the Democrat Donkey into the Volcano
This TRAGEDY was”Created”by”Human Negligence”(Not,”Climate Change”)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Death penalty for gov., mayor, police chief etc. After a trial of course.
Yeah, a Roy Bean type of trial. Hang ’em high.