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#PacificWatch: #Maui: Like a firestorm and a tornado. @JCBliss

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🗓️ 12 August 2023

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#PacificWatch: #Maui: Like a firestorm and a tornado. @JCBliss
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/us/hawaii-fires-photos.html

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0:42.0

Lahaina Town. Jeff Bliss' specific watch teaches me to say Lahaina Town. I'm looking at

0:49.0

photographs in the New York Times. What is striking about the wildfire that has damaged

0:54.4

the lives of the people living there is that it leaves remains from overhead, resembling

1:00.1

what is associated with the tornado. Ones out of the street, their houses and cars parked

1:06.4

as they always are, very close to the beach. On the other side, nothing is left, just

1:11.5

cinders, all the way down the street. There are some houses you can't figure how they

1:16.4

were saved, because they're in the middle of other houses that are gone. Jeff, a very

1:20.8

good evening to you. Firestorm or wildfire. You've been to Lahaina Town. Is this a place

1:28.5

that was always going to be vulnerable to this kind of phenomenon? Good evening, Jeff.

1:35.4

Good evening, John. Well, fires are not something that is unique to Southern California. They

1:41.9

do get them in Hawaii, even though there are these tropical islands, and they get a lot

1:45.8

of rain there, usually. It's not something you think about that much. Well, you tend to

1:50.1

think about more as earthquakes, because there's a lot of volcanic activity nearby. You

1:55.9

think about tidal waves. That's been a problem in Hawaii before. You don't really think

1:59.4

about large wildfires like this, unless they're around the volcanic areas, and usually on

2:04.9

the other islands, or no active volcanoes. Maui haven't been since the late 1700s, but

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