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You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets...supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain.
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George Carlin
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I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.
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Mark Twain
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I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.
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K.S. Collier
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After the arrival of Europeans, the Big Island’s King Kamehameha I rapidly proceeded with the consolidation of the largest islands by purchasing European guns and ships to invade and conquer first Maui and then Oahu.
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Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel)
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Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.
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Karen Karbo (How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great)
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Have you met my wife, Kristen Stewart? We're flying on a private jet to Maui tonight to have lots of sex and lip biting. Fuckity bye, arseholes.
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Ciara Smyth (Not My Problem)
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It’s easy to enjoy each other while on a vacation in Maui. The key is to find someone you can have fun with during the six-hour flight over there. —Tom Arnold
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Katherine Woodward Thomas (Calling in "The One": 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life)
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Just because a cop smiles at you when he asks for your license and registration doesn’t change the fact that he’s carrying a loaded gun.
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JoAnn Bassett (Mai Tai Butterfly (Escape to Maui Book 1))
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If a person starts a wildfire, it is called ‘arson’. If a corporation starts a wildfire, it is called a ‘normal aspect of business’.
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Steven Magee
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It goes like this: go to school, get brainwashed, go to college, get more brainwashed, drink beer, get a degree, get a job, get married, have kids, get promoted, get a mortgage, take a yearly vacation, buy stuff on the holidays, retire, take up golf, be a grandparent, get cancer and die. The matrix exists to make sure you follow this formula, so that you can do your part to support the very system that’s enslaving you. Except you think you’re free because you went to Maui for a week last June. That’s not freedom, my love. That’s a bone.
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Shaman Durek (Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World)
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One of my Norwegian teachers once asked me a question.
'If you were a flower, Bjørn, what kind of flower would you be?'
She always came up with the strangest questions. I think she liked messing around with me. I was an appreciative victim. I was seventeen. She was twice that.
'A flower, Bjørn?' she repeated. Her voice was compassionate, pleasant. She leaned over my desk. I still remember her scent: warm, spicy, full of moist secrets.
Everyone was quiet. Everyone was wondering what kind of flower Bjørn would be. Or they were all hoping i would stammer and blush, as i was wont to do whenever she leaned over me with all her scents and heady temptations.
But for once i had an answer to one of her incessant questions.
I told her about the Haleakala Silversword.
It grows only in and around the Haleakala volcano on Maui. It spends twenty years as a modest ball covered with shimmering silver hairs storing up its energy, and then suddenly one summer it explodes extravagantly into bloom in yellows and purples. Then it dies.
My answer flummoxed her. For a long while she just stood there by my desk, staring at me.
What the heck had she been expecting me to say? a cactus?
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Tom Egeland (Cirklens Ende (Bjørn Beltø, #1))
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The door opened and the seven of them came out of the conference room. Alexander walked out last. He saw Tatiana struggle up from her chair, but she couldn’t stand without holding on to it, and she looked so alone and forsaken, he was afraid that she would break down in front of half a dozen strangers. Yet he wanted to say something to her, something to comfort her, and so slightly nodding his head, he said, “We are going home.” She inhaled, and her hand covered her mouth. And then because she was Tatiana and because she couldn’t help herself, and because he wouldn’t have it any other way, she ran to him and was in his arms, generals or no generals. She flung her arms around him, she embraced him, her wet face was in his neck. His head was bent to her, and her feet were off the ground. Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding. Barrington, Leningrad, Luga, Ladoga, Lazarevo, Ellis Island, the mountains of Holy Cross, their lost families, their lost mothers and fathers, their brothers in arms and brothers are etched on their souls and their fine faces and like the mercurial moon, like Jupiter over Maui, like the Perseus galaxy with its blue, imploding stars they remain, as the stellar wind whispers over the rivers all run red, over the oceans and the seas, murmuring through the moonsilver skies… Tatiana… Alexander… But the bronze horseman is still.
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Paullina Simons (Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2))
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Even in the still shadowed places, glowbirds nestled like Japanese lanterns above lighted walkways, glowing swingvines, and illuminated hanging bridges, while fireflies from Old Earth and radiant gossamers from Maui-Covenant blinked and coded their way through labyrinths of leaves, mixing with constellations sufficiently to fool even the most starwise traveler.
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Dan Simmons (Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1))
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The person who boarded that flight from LAX to Maui was weak. She was scared. Now I feel strong. Not quite indestructible, but much more durable. Like I used to be that crappy paper towel they show in the commercial, and now I’m the five-ply one. I used to break easily when there was a spill. Now I can mop up almost any mess. Pour that shit on me. I can handle it.
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Liz Fenton (The Good Widow)
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If you do the Maui Habit and feel that it won’t be a great day, I advise you to still say this phrase. I say it even on mornings when I feel exhausted or overwhelmed or anxious about the day ahead. In that moment, sitting on the edge of my bed, I try to feel optimistic. But if this feels phony, then I adjust the phrase and my intonation as I say, “It’s going to be a great day—somehow.
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B.J. Fogg (Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything)
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I would have thought your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy.” I laughed and locked the wheel in. “Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there’s petroleum there. We don’t burn it, if that’s what you mean. But it’s still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids. Two hundred billion people use a lot of plastic.” “And Maui-Covenant has oil?
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Dan Simmons (Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1))
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As a scientist, I know that predicting outcomes is based as much on probability as on cause and effect. It isn’t always possible to isolate the one factor that led to a particular result. Still, as I stepped forward to receive my award, I couldn’t help rethinking, however briefly, my journey backward through time, from an NFL event in Maui, through two missions on the space station, to a football field at Heritage High. It had all begun with a dropped pass. In
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Leland Melvin (Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances)
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Ryan scoffs. “I’ll never be able to see past the way he salivated over Tessa in Maui. If we lived in a different century, I’d be challenging Reed to a duel.” Colby laughs. “Tessa wasn’t even your girlfriend at the time. Dislike the guy all you want because he’s cocky or whatever, but I don’t think you can fairly hold it against him that he made a play for your wife before she was even your girlfriend.” “Tessa was already mine in Maui. She just didn’t know it yet.” Colby and I chuckle.
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Lauren Rowe (Rockstar (Morgan Brothers, #5))
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Still, who, I wondered, owns the disappearing story that, in, part, they tell? The story of the teacher and the children lives now in so few places: on that weather-beaten wall, in scrapbooks filled with photographs. History isn't a sculptured cup; it's more like a sieve through which so many stories pass and disappear.
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Julie Checkoway (The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory)
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She seemed sad and wise beyond her years. All the giddy experimentation with sex, recreational drugs, and revolutionary politics that was still approaching its zenith in countercultural America was ancient, unhappy history to her. Actually, her mother was still in the midst of it—her main boyfriend at the time was a Black Panther on the run from the law—but Caryn, at sixteen, was over it. She was living in West Los Angeles with her mother and little sister, in modest circumstances, going to a public high school. She collected ceramic pigs and loved Laura Nyro, the rapturous singer-songwriter. She was deeply interested in literature and art, but couldn’t be bothered with bullshit like school exams. Unlike me, she wasn’t hedging her bets, wasn’t keeping up her grades to keep her college options open. She was the smartest person I knew—worldly, funny, unspeakably beautiful. She didn’t seem to have any plans. So I picked her up and took her with me, very much on my headstrong terms. I overheard, early on, a remark by one of her old Free School friends. They still considered themselves the hippest, most wised-up kids in L.A., and the question was what had become of their foxy, foulmouthed comrade Caryn Davidson. She had run off, it was reported, “with some surfer.” To them, this was a fate so unlikely and inane, there was nothing else to say. Caryn did have one motive that was her own for agreeing to come to Maui. Her father was reportedly there. Sam had been an aerospace engineer before LSD came into his life. He had left his job and family and, with no explanation beyond his own spiritual search, stopped calling or writing. But the word on the coconut wireless was that he was dividing his time between a Zen Buddhist monastery on the north coast of Maui and a state mental hospital nearby. I was not above mentioning the possibility that Caryn might find him if we moved to the island.
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William Finnegan (Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life)
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Bella inspired this book through a series of questions and conversations that circled around how people live together. Growing up on Maui (and in California), she has observed the challenges of food production, housing, global economies, and environmental losses. She has watched people lose their options, and people fall through the cracks in systems. As a father, it is emotionally cutting to see pain and heartbreak in your daughter's eyes, to witness her start to realize social equations do not calculate toward equity. Her brilliance across these conversations has been the ever-present solutions, her ingenuity and moxie, and the art for creating visions for change. She inspires me to be more present with each choice that circles around her future.
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Tola Finn (We are Circles: The Self-Love Geometry of Choices)
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Our battle is against the evil one and his wicked ways, and all the lies he whispers. That serpent of old would like to fill us with fear. Remember…only God gives life and only God takes it away. I am in His hands. Let’s not forget that.
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Kellie Coates Gilbert (The Last Aloha (Maui Island #4))
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The COVID-19 lockdown and the Maui wildfire disaster both demonstrated that the USA government was using rental home owners as their new social security system for the masses!
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Steven Magee
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In November and December 2023, the popular Maui Kaanapali beach was filled with local wildfire victims that were ‘fishing for housing’.
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Steven Magee
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The Maui wildfire disaster turned into a sad story about government incompetence.
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Steven Magee
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In December 2023, the Hawaii government was telling rental owners they were about to ‘drop the hammer’ or go ‘nuclear’ on short-term housing rentals on Maui, as several thousand wildfire victims were still living in hotels.
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Steven Magee
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Hawaiian Electric has turned into the new Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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Steven Magee
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Life for electrical utilities in Hawaii forever changed in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
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Steven Magee
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Why is a private utility company that is linked to destroying Lahaina being given $95,000,000 in taxpayer money?
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Steven Magee
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The government telling the public it is hardening the electrical grid is code for free taxpayer money for privately owned electrical utility companies.
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Steven Magee
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How much has the government spent on the Ukraine war and how much has it spent on the Lahaina disaster in Hawaii?
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Steven Magee
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the minute you leave the expectations of others behind, that’s when you truly start living.
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Jasmine Webb (Maui Murder (Charlotte Gibson Mysteries #2))
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And it's fitting that this time Olive and I are headed to Maui, I've got a real ring in my pocket.
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Christina Lauren (The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1))
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Mom, I think you've done enough experimenting. All of these batches have been delicious."
I dip the other, unbitten end into a small dish of sweet chili sauce.
"You never know what people will want," she says. "Some like it with pork, some like it with chicken, some like it with shrimp."
Our post-work evening has been spent testing out different batches of lumpia for the upcoming Maui Food Festival. Ever since I told her we'd be competing to keep our spot on Makena Road, she's been in a food-prepping frenzy. Every night after work for the past week she's spent hours testing out new dishes, tweaking ingredients to get the flavors just right. Yesterday it was adjusting the level of fish sauce in the pansit, then attempting to perfect the ratio of rice noodle to meat and vegetables.
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Sarah Smith (Simmer Down)
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There were eight main islands: Ni‘ihau, Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, Maui, Kaho‘olawe, and Hawai‘i.
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Sara Ackerman (The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West)
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Just going by her handle, Jessica Fong’s daughter on Maui didn’t have a lot of professional aspirations. Ferron and Indrapramit had to go virtual to meet her; Skooter0 didn’t seem to come out of her virtual worlds for anything other than biologically unavoidable crash cycles.
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Elizabeth Bear (Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories)
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Just going by her handle, Jessica Fang’s daughter on Maui didn’t have a lot of professional aspirations. Ferron and Indrapramit had to go virtual to meet her: Skooter0 didn’t seem to come out of her virtual worlds for anything other than biologically unavoidable crash cycles.
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Elizabeth Bear (Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories)
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In August 2023, Maui became the Hawaii poverty island.
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Steven Magee
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After the Maui wildfire disaster only 3,000 rental cars were in use, the other 18,000 were parked in fields as the tourism crashed.
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Steven Magee
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The Maui wildfires disaster led to the Maui economic disaster.
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Steven Magee
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There were no doubts the government was engaging in a global misinformation campaign regarding the deadly Maui wildfires disaster.
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Steven Magee
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In the second month of the Lahaina disaster, it was clear shady things were going on within the Maui government.
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Steven Magee
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You cannot believe missing persons and death toll numbers the government releases, especially when it involves well known tourist destinations.
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Steven Magee
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After the destruction of Lahaina, I will not be voting Democrat in the next election.
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Steven Magee
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I expect the Maui wildfires that destroyed Lahaina to be remembered as one of the biggest tourism disasters in history.
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Steven Magee
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After the deadly Lahaina wildfire in August 2023, there was talk of a blatant cover-up by the government and media. In September 2023 the chatter by some Maui residents was the disaster was far worse than what the world was being told. People on the Hawaiian islands were getting a very different horror story from Maui residents.
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Steven Magee
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The destruction to the Hawaiian Electric grid by wildfires in Maui will likely push up electricity bills for customers to pay for the massive cost of rebuilding it.
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Steven Magee
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It was interesting to watch the Lahaina disaster victims getting an education on how their government really is!
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Steven Magee
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The victims of the Lahaina disaster are getting an education on how their county, state and federal governments truly are!
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Steven Magee
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Land of Sugar The incredibly fertile lands and stable, warm climate of Hawaiʻi proved to be ideal for the growth of sugarcane, which would eventually lead to the dominance of sugarcane over Hawaiian agriculture and sugar exports’ iron-clad hold on the Hawaiian economy and overseas interests. Beginning in the 1820s onward, sugar plantations cropped up on the islands of Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi, and the Big Island of Hawaiʻi itself. Over the next one hundred years, sugar production from Hawaiʻi would grow from under fifty thousand tons of sugarcane to well over half a million tons. This had several effects. The first was a huge influx of immigrant labor to help cope with the demands of a rising sector, especially since growing, harvesting, and processing sugarcane was a labor-intensive process. Tens of thousands of laborers were contracted from Japan, China, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Korea. Hawaiʻi’s population swelled by over 300,000 people over this time and resulted in the percentage of Native Hawaiians dropping to about 10 percent of the total population by the 1900s. It
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Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
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With this, Kamehameha finally felt strong enough to invade and take over the island of Maui.
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Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
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1795, due to infighting between Kahekili’s eldest son, Kalanikupule, and other family members, Kamehameha saw that the time had now come to conquer the other islands. Mustering up all his arms and men, Kamehameha commanded what was probably the largest and best-equipped army that the Hawaiian archipelago had seen at that time. Kamehameha’s war party would sail to Lahaina, Maui, and raze the west coast. The commanding chief, Koalaukane, had fled to Oʻahu without putting up any resistance. Kamehameha would then move on Molokaʻi. His battle with the troops on Oʻahu would be fierce, but Kamehameha would prevail, making him master of all the islands except Kauaʻi and Niʻihau.
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Captivating History (History of Hawaii: A Captivating Guide to Hawaiian History (U.S. States))
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battered Balinese desk. There were supposed to be three piles—those I could pay right away; those I’d pay by the end of February; and those that would never
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JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
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the real estate office across the street—marking the spot. The door to my shop creaked open and a pale female face peeked around the jamb. In the space above her head I saw the shimmer of wind-whipped rain.
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JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
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continued through January, sending visitors fleeing back to the mainland like snorkelers
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JoAnn Bassett (Maui Widow Waltz (Islands of Aloha Mystery, #1))
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advertising.” It started when Google introduced the AdSense network in 2003. When Google’s web crawler began to scan tens of millions of pages of content, matching ads to content by targeting keywords, contextual advertising was born. If you search for flights to Maui, for example, you might receive an ad for a nice deal on a place to stay. However, if after you returned you were looking up the name of the wonderful little shop you discovered up-island, you might see the same offer. In the former situation the ad is relevant; in the latter it’s worthless. Sometimes such ads are beneath worthless; they are downright tasteless. When
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Robert Scoble (Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy)
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When I was studying for my 2nd Master Degree in Theatre Costuming at the Fitzgerald Theatre at The University of Hawaii, I met my life partner, Walter Bissett, a successful realtor and, also ‘God!’ An Andy archetype! We have been together for nineteen years. We currently reside on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii.
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Young (Initiation (A Harem Boy's Saga Book 1))
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After her brief chat with Baldwin, she’d managed a shower and set off for work, dark-lensed Maui Jims on in an attempt to shield her eyes from an overly bright sun. When had the sun become so powerful, started giving off midafternoon light so early in the morning? She was sure that it had never glowed with such a vengeance. She
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J.T. Ellison (All The Pretty Girls (Taylor Jackson, #1))
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She wanted to get to Maui and erase the rest of the world. To lie on the beach and daydream about what it would be like if James weren’t married, or if she were the most important woman in his life—something she thought about often, but was reluctant to bring up to James in any serious way.
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Liz Fenton (The Good Widow)
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I was once again doing something I didn’t want to do, and once again I didn’t know why. I was leaving the beach to drive back “home” where it was cold and wet. While the mountainous city of Asheville was certainly a beautiful place, I felt better near the ocean. I’m not saying the ocean is better than mountains, fields, cities, rivers, or anywhere else; the ocean was simply my preference.
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David Gross (From Mainland to Maui: Awakening From "The American Dream")
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Apple may not do customer research to decide what products to make, but it absolutely pays attention to how customers use its products. So the marketing team working on the iMovie HD release scheduled for Macworld, on January 11, 2005, decided to shoot a wedding. The ceremony it filmed was gorgeous: a sophisticated, candlelit affair at the Officers’ Club of San Francisco’s Presidio. The bride was an Apple employee, and the wedding was real. There was one problem with the footage, however. Steve Jobs didn’t like it. He watched it the week before Christmas, recalled Alessandra Ghini, the marketing executive managing the launch of iLife. Jobs declared that the San Francisco wedding didn’t capture the right atmosphere to demonstrate what amateurs could do with iMovie. “He told us he wanted a wedding on the beach, in Hawaii, or some tropical location,” said Ghini. “We had a few weeks to find a wedding on a beach and to get it shot, edited, and approved by Steve. The tight time frame allowed for no margin for error.” With time short and money effectively no object, the team went into action. It contacted Los Angeles talent agencies as well as hotels in Hawaii to learn if they knew of any weddings planned—preferably featuring an attractive bride and groom—over the New Year’s holiday. They hit pay dirt in Hollywood: A gorgeous agency client and her attractive fiancé were in fact planning to wed on Maui during the holiday. Apple offered to pay for the bride’s flowers, to film the wedding, and to provide the couple with a video. In return, Apple wanted rights for up to a minute’s worth of footage of its choosing.
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Adam Lashinsky (Inside Apple)
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April 2012 Dear Oscar, I’m delighted to hear from you after more than 42 years’ absence. I am happy to know that you are in a loving relationship with Scott and the kids. I look forward to meeting them one day. Walter and I are happily “married” although we haven’t officially tied the knot. We met through a personal ad while I was on a scholarship program at the University of Hawaii, pursuing my 2nd Master Degree in Theatre Costuming. Three months into my studies, I found myself on the beautiful island of Maui, living with the man I had known a few months earlier.
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Young (Unbridled (A Harem Boy's Saga, #2))
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Tristan's hands trembled. "Not unless someone built the Maui Zoo when we weren't looking. And let the bears free.
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Edward W. Robertson (Cut Off (Breakers, #5))
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Winter has come to Maui. Time to get out the plaid board shorts...
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Tom Althouse
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A CEO of a very successful company told him that in the corporate world, to get the kind of high level expertise that was being given at Maui (Terry Brooks, Elizabeth George, John Saul, Dorothy Allison, Robin Cook, Frank McCourt, Dan Millman, etc. etc.) one would expect to pay tens of thousands of dollars. And all these best-selling authors were getting was a plane ticket and a hotel room for their collective experiences and expertise. We believe writers should value their expertise.
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Bob Mayer (The Shelfless Book: How We Made Our First Million on Kindle)
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I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge
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Toni Polancy
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Brother, you give me no credit. You think I took emergency leave to come up here and save your life without knowing anything? I called that bar—that sweet little bar you like so much? Where they haven’t seen you in a long time? I talked to Jack a while, got Walt Booth’s number and talked to him, too. Here’s what happened—Shelby went to Maui for a warm, sunny vacation before heading to San Francisco to get an apartment for school that’s not starting for months. She got out of town. Since we had this talk once already, I can guess why. You pushed her away. You wouldn’t tell her how you feel because you think it’s a mistake for her. And you’re still scared every woman you meet is going to do you dirty. You’re still making decisions for other people without getting their opinion. Now she thinks you don’t care about her and so she took you up on the challenge and she left. Got as far away as she could. And now you’re in the shitter!” Luke glared at Aiden for a moment before he said, “I’m going to fucking kill you.” Aiden sat back in the chair and grinned. He took a slug of his beer. “Oh yeah? And why is that?” “You called the general? About me?” “Yup. And the bartender. But I got the call from Sean who got the call from Mom and you should just be glad Paddy and Colin aren’t stateside or they’d be in it. Now, why don’t you just answer the fucking phone and tell people you’re busy and can’t talk? What the hell are you doing?” “Save my life?” Luke asked. “Emergency leave? Save my life? What the hell are you talking about?” Aiden sat forward and grew serious. “Look, we’ve been here before. We were all young, true, and the circumstances were entirely different, but try to imagine what it’s like to see your big brother—the guy you most admire in the world—hit the skids and just about sink out of sight. Scared the shit out of everyone. That’s not going to happen again. No one is going to let it happen again.” Luke took a breath. “Look, it’s not a big deal. Shelby was just following through with her plans. She wants to travel, go to school. I’m adjusting. Gimme a week. It’ll be fine.” Aiden stared at him for a second. “Aw, bullshit,” he said. Before
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Robyn Carr (Temptation Ridge)
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On Maui, one November, Hugh and I went swimming, and turned to find a gigantic sea turtle coming up between us. As gentle as a cow she was, and with a cow’s dopey, almost lovesick expression on her face. That, to me, was worth the entire trip, worth my entire life, practically. For to witness majesty, to find yourself literally touched by it—isn’t that what we’ve all been waiting for?
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David Sedaris (Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.)
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in 1937, a schoolteacher in Pu‘unene taught impoverished Japanese-American camp kids how to swim in the plantation’s filthy irrigation ditches, and he challenged them to transform themselves into Olympians. That
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Julie Checkoway (The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory)
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Maui Luau Wok Sauce Serves: 4 ⅓ cup unsweetened, shredded coconut ½ cup water 1½ cups pineapple chunks 1 teaspoon Bragg Liquid Aminos or low-sodium soy sauce 1 scallion, sliced (2 tablespoons) 2 cloves garlic ½ teaspoon minced ginger 3 unsulfured dried apricots, soaked in ¼ cup water for 30 minutes ½ teaspoon no-salt seasoning blend such as Mrs. Dash 1 tablespoon Passion Fruit Vinegar* or rice vinegar Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. To use as a cooking sauce for your favorite vegetables, heat ¼ cup water in a large nonstick wok or skillet, add your choice of vegetables, cover, and cook until crisp-tender, about 4 to 8 minutes, depending on the vegetable, stirring occasionally and adding additional water as needed. Uncover, add desired amount of Maui Luau Wok Sauce, and continue cooking until mixture is heated through. PER SERVING: CALORIES 89; PROTEIN 1g; CARBOHYDRATE 12g; TOTAL FAT 5g; SATURATED FAT 4.3g; SODIUM 61mg; FIBER 1.6g; BETA-CAROTENE 96mcg; VITAMIN C 12mg; CALCIUM 21mg; IRON 0.6mg; FOLATE 3mcg; MAGNESIUM 17mg; ZINC 0.3mg; SELENIUM 1.7mcg
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Joel Fuhrman (The End of Heart Disease: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Eat for Life))
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Fiji is amazing but so are Maui and Bora Bora.
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Tiffany Nicole Smith (Sea Holly Cove: Week 1: Summer Crush)
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Even paradise has a dark side as shown in Bokur’s welcome debut and series launch introducing Det. Kali Māhoe, of the Maui PD, who’s also a cultural anthropologist…Bokur nimbly contrasts the Hawaii of sun and golden beaches with its less well-known underbelly of poverty, discrimination, and crime. Fans of strong female cops will look forward to Kali’s further adventures.
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Publisher's Weekly
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If heaven was a verb and I told you,
I heaven you,
I would mean I embrace you, wholly,
as if inside a shell.
— Jesse S. Fourmy, from “Final Descent onto Maui While Recalling a Visit to the Honolulu Zoo,” Lost Horse Press New Poets Series: New Poets | Short Books | Volume IV (Lost Horse Press, 2010)
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She appreciated life, it seemed, appreciated being alive, as if it were some extra gift she hadn't ever expected to receive, as if, perhaps, she wasn't quite worthy of the magnitude of it; and because she appreciated life, he began to do so, too.
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Julie Checkoway (The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory)
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Our happiness does not depend on the actions of others.
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Kellie Coates Gilbert (Under the Maui Sky (Maui Island, #1))
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Despite everything, life continues to be amazing. We need to breathe in that amazing.
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Kellie Coates Gilbert (Under the Maui Sky (Maui Island, #1))
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These days when you achieve something that other people have not achieved you are more likely to get detrimental comments and remarks from people instead of praise. The reason being that nobody likes to see another person achieve something that they, their kids or their grand kids have not done, because this makes them feel less special and we live in a society where everybody is desperate to look the most successful and most important. So they are detrimental towards your achievements in order to re-create the level playing field between yourself. This is the society we live in
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Alison - Maui Hawaii 2006
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Maui, five minutes from the Historic Lahaina Town.
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R.A. Russell (The Billionaire's Accidental Surrogate)
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2. If Fornander, Kepelino and Kamakau conspired to falsify the accounts, they did a very poor job of it. Their legends differed and each gave different versions of the legends at different times. Their versions probably differed because they were handed down to them differently. As Handy says of the Marquesan sacred chants, “Every tribe had its own rendition of these sacred chants.”25 About the Kumuhonua and Nu‘u legends, Fornander says “so runs the Hawaii legends, but the legends of O‘ahu, Maui and Kaua‘i differ somewhat.”26 Fornander had heard at least four different versions of these legends. Their versions changed because they had heard different versions. If they were trying to promote Christianity, why didn’t they include any legends about Christ or New Testament concepts? After the “Moses” legends, why were there no legends about Joshua and Jericho, Gideon, Samson and Delilah, David and Goliath, Elijah and Jezebel, or the other great stories of the Old Testament? Why would they pick instead a very distorted version of the story of Jonah, an incident that occurred after all of these other great events?
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Daniel Kikawa (Perpetuated In Righteousness: The Journey of the Hawaiian People from Eden (Kalana I Hauola) to the Present Time (The True God of Hawaiʻi Series))
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Actions have consequences.
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Rose Tigarden (Life's a Beach on Maui)
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have exhaustively cataloged all the amenities, formed opinions on what different properties have to offer and created comprehensive reviews. Sure, you can go online and look at reviews by people who have been to one or maybe two resorts. But none of those sources can compare one to the other. Because this information is so exhaustive, there isn’t enough room in our book to include it all. So we have put all of our reviews in our smartphone app, Hawaii Revealed, and made that portion available for free. There you can sort and sift through the resorts in a matter of minutes using our
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Andrew Doughty (Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook)
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Lahaina has a history of wildfires damaging properties.
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Steven Magee
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Historic Lahaina town was destroyed and widespread damage was in Kihei and Kula, caused by the August 2023 Maui wildfires.
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Steven Magee
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I would never have thought a hurricane that was 500 miles away could destroy historic Lahaina town.
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Steven Magee
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Historic Lahaina town demonstrated that high winds and fire are a fatal combination.
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Steven Magee
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The historic Lahaina town joined the Hawaiian spirits in August 2023.
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Steven Magee
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The government has decided that high death tolls are bad for business and does everything it can to keep the numbers artificially low.
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Steven Magee
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Sleeping in cars became popular in Maui after the August 2023 wildfires.
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Steven Magee
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It was clear that a smoke detector and fire extinguisher were not going to save people from the historic August 2023 Lahaina fire.
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Steven Magee
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The historic Lahaina fire overwhelmed the emergency services.
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Steven Magee
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Hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina fire.
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Steven Magee
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It was clear there was a controlled release of information to the masses by the state of Hawaii news media during the august 2023 Maui wildfires disaster.
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Steven Magee
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I am interested to see how Hawaii’s ‘War On The Homeless’ is going to work out on Maui after the loss of historic Lahaina town.
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Steven Magee
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The increasing radiation environment is linked to drying out the trees and making them increasingly flammable.
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Steven Magee
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The airline industry was flying empty planes out from the mainland to evacuate Maui during the August 2023 wildfires.
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Steven Magee
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Many tourists were initially evacuated to Oahu during the August 2023 wildfires on Maui.
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Steven Magee
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Hurricane Dora will be remembered as one of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit Hawaii, even though it was 500 miles away!
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Steven Magee
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Wind turbine farms are typically installed into areas that have consistently high wind speeds.
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Steven Magee
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Rest in peace: Historic Lahaina town.
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Steven Magee
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Lahaina was lost to a wildfire on 8th August 2023.
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Steven Magee