Hawaii, HI
Aloha. Welcome to Paradise.
@jacy
just when we thought we could start recovery efforts for the 3-day old floods, we were hammered by another round today.
are y’all seeing this on national news? cuz we’re in state of emergency situation over here no joke.
severe flash flooding across Honolulu. wild to live through.
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@jacy
my heart goes out to the people of waialua, the town being hit hardest by this unrelenting storm.
it’s the one you see in the opening shot of this vid 🥺
waialua is a small farming & plantation community on Oahu’s north shore. it’s a super local, tight-knit community and it’s where my best friend grew up.
her family and several of our other friends still live there and were evacuated yesterday amidst severe thunderstorms & flooding.
they have been unable to return because the only accessible road that isn’t flooded is now exposed to a massive gas leak.
they don’t know if their houses are still standing, their neighbors made it out, or what awaits their return.
and even more rain is expected later today 😔
the bigger looming issue though - and they reason they were evacuated - is the wahiawa dam.
it’s a plantation-era relic built by Dole when they opened their world-famous pineapple operation in Hawaii.
Dole is the largest landowner and the largest employer in waialua and they’ve been warned for DECADES that the dam is unsafe and the spillway is insufficient to hold back water in the event of a massive enough storm.
but rather than do the prudent, community-minded thing, Dole turned a blind eye and now ~2,500 residents downstream are at major risk.
and while it hopefully doesn’t happen today, the dam will burst.
so fuck dole. fuck monsanto. and fuck every other big business who doesn’t do right by the communities they extract from.
WE > ME
WE is def > than PROFITS
and more ppl & businesses need to start acting like it.
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@jacy
hawaii is getting absolutely hammered by rain.
flooding in a ton of places.
waterfalls galore.
and locals making the most of it.
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@beatz100
Happy Aloha Friday! 🤙🏽
If you let The Bus cut in front you, you get a “Mahalo” and a Shaka!
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@jacy
how to guarantee everyone in hawaii goes to the beach instead of staying indoors and off the roads as a hurricane approaches:
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@jacy
last night's Chief of War was incredibly difficult for me to watch as Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian).
without spoiling, we've reached the point in the show where european colonizers have reached our shores, bringing with them western views, diseases, greed, weapons, and core values that forever changed the destiny of our Hawaiian people.
in law school, i wrote my 75-page thesis paper on requiring 5-year residency before you can buy land in Hawai'i.
i sought guidance from my constitutional law professor, who advised that it was 100% unconstitutional under federal American law.
"so i shouldn't write it then?" i asked.
"you abso-fucking-lutely should" he responded.
these are often tough conversations for "paleskin" people (as they're referred to in Chief of War" to hear. but Hawai'i - like many other indigenous locations around the globe - is a stolen land.
not just colonized - quite literally, our Queen was overthrown and our lands were stolen - as they continue to be today by people like mark zuckerberg with his quiet buyouts of kuleana lands and squeezing locals out of their homes where they can no longer afford property taxes and price hikes.
and to ignore that history is at the expense and peril of the shrinking remainder of native hawaiians who exist in the world today.
Chief of War has its flaws (it's def no Game of Thrones) and it is primarily subtitled in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, our native language - so it requires extra effort.
but it is worth watching, imho, if you find this sort of stuff even remotely curious.
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@beatz100
It was a hot weekend!! We cooled off with some beach time and ice cream (that I made 🤗). Hope you all enjoyed the weekend and have a happy Monday!
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@jacy
family on Maui got evacuated today as a huge brush fire burned above their homes in Ka'anapali.
sounds like the fire is contained, but scary scene bringing flashbacks of the devastating Lahaina wildfires from ~2 years ago 🥺
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