Sometimes two things can be correct. This is not one of those times
Hawaiian officials attributed the cause of catastrophic wildfires to alleged failures from the state’s main power utility company and downed power lines this week after Democrats blamed the disaster on global warming.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the government of Maui County, Hawaii, alleged Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) and its subsidiaries failed to properly power down live electrical equipment amid a red flag windstorm earlier this month. Due to this failure, downed power lines operated by the utility company sparked a series of deadly fires on the island, the lawsuit claimed.
“The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants acted negligently by failing to power down their electrical equipment despite a National Weather Service Red Flag Warning on August 7th,” Maui County said in a release announcing its lawsuit.
“The lawsuit further alleges HECO’s energized and downed power lines ignited dry fuel such as grass and brush, causing the fires,” the announcement added. “The lawsuit also alleges failure to maintain the system and power grid, which caused the systemic failures starting three different fires on August 8th.”
So, as usual, not ‘climate change’, but, human negligence. Narrative buster. If only the electric companies hadn’t spent so much money, both on their own and as required by government, on all that “green” energy, rather than maintaining the existing infrastructure. If only the government had done their job in clearing back all the highly flammable grasses and done things like releasing the necessary water. Oh, and allowing citizens to leave. Warning them in some way to get the hell out
‘We’re all Maui’: Climate change tests emergency alert systems across US
A fire suddenly swallows a Hawaiian town, killing scores. Wildfire smoke from Canada unexpectedly drifts across the U.S. Northeast, choking millions. Record rains surprise Vermont, triggering landslides.
Emergency sirens on Maui, part of Hawaii’s decades-old early warning system, never sounded.
As climate change increases the ferocity and frequency of extreme weather events, quickly warning the public of their arrival is more important than ever. But authorities are finding existing emergency alert systems insufficient for these new threats – sometimes with deadly results.
“We’re all living in the same state that Maui was in a month ago,” said Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School. “We’re all living in an environment that is exposed to increased hazards that we don’t fully understand.”
So, basically incompetent government being incompetent is a symptom of global doom? Piss off.
Maybe the power company should just say, “OK, if that’s the way you want it, we’ll just shut down everything and leave the island dark.”
It’s the lesson of California. Power companies have large maintenance budgets. Municipalities can sue them to loot those funds after any disaster that power lines run through. Then the power companies won’t have that money and do less maintenance, and get sued twice as hard next time. Rinse. Repeat.
Strawman Teach refutes an argument that no one is making!! Well done! No one is claiming that the no longer deniable global warming is INITIATING wildfires but rather the increasingly dry conditions make the wildfires significantly worse.
Yet, Teach Strawman and fellow Strawmen Yahoo and FOX repeat the fabrication because they well understand their low information audiences.
Anyone who has tried to start a campfire understands that dry tinder DOES facilitate ignition! It could be that conservextremists don’t get out in nature very often. In addition, once ignited the fire spreads more rapidly throught dry substrate!
Priorities, people.
Uncaring monsters all.
#LetsGoBrandon
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