THE LAHAINA APOCALYPSE

The WiFi in my building was down all day. The recovery was unusually grueling, as an info tech specialist had to come to my apartment to personally adjust every device to re-connect.

So, anyway, late, but I'm back, and will just send you to the Star Advertiser to read what happened in Lahaina. Two extraordinary statistics:

The fatalities are now up to 67 and could get higher, for perhaps a thousand are still missing, although most are probably alive but unaccounted for so far. This was the second most wildfire deaths in the USA in the past century. The 2018 Camp Fire in California, which destroyed the towns of Paradise and Concow, was the worst, with 85 deaths. Interestingly enough, the highest death toll of 1152 came from the Wisconsin Peshtigo fire of 1871.

Lahaina became the #1 deadliest state natural disaster. #2 was the 1960 tsunami that killed 61 people in Hilo. Actually, there was a deadlier tsunami in 1946 when 150 on the Big Island was killed by another tsunami, but Hawaii was not yet a state.

Day 8 of my African Blood Lily bloom. In a few days there will be 19 blossoms.

Typhoon Lan went up to 130 MPH today, but is expected to weaken to Category 1 strength when he makes landfall over Japan on Monday. The current projection is just about where Mikimoto did his pearl experiments. The eye will then pass to the west of Nagoya. However, a lot can change in three days.

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