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RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Punatang - 02-26-2025
Thanks Edge for trying to help me understand but I still need more help.
Your statements in quotes (below) are not part of my signature line in any way. They seem to be statements you came up with yourself and put into quotes. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as to why. It feels like your demand for offense exceeds the supply. The link just contains facts that are wildly acknowledged. There is no discussion of age in the link in my signature line. Ageism is lame and I would join you in being offended by it but it seems that you are perpetuating ageism with your comment below. Am I missing something?
“Oh look, a very old man!”
But not point out:
“That other guy is just as old, and stumbles mumbles all over his words too! And on top of that he’s crazy!”
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Punatang - 02-26-2025
Tom, I twice started to type in how four or five days of growth is all I can handle before the itchiness becomes untenable. Beard dandruff! LOL. Thanks for being open, humorous, and bravely vulnerable especially in light of all of the histronic behavior from some quarters of PW these days. Your Prince Michael of Kent brilliantly sums it up:
"When the knocks come, unpalatable and disagreeable though they may be, you just get on with it. You have to resist the temptation to get affected..."
https://www.gq.com/story/your-morning-shot-prince-michael-of-kent
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - HiloJulie - 02-26-2025
(02-26-2025, 05:38 AM)Punatang Wrote: ...Prince Michael of Kent brilliantly sums it up:
"When the knocks come, unpalatable and disagreeable though they may be, you just get on with it. You have to resist the temptation to get affected..."
First, now that he's turned gray, his beard looks much better IMHO.
But I do understand your newfound admiration of Prince Michael of Kent.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Sam Son - 02-26-2025
. Sheesh.... There are now three pages of comments and not one of them addresses the topic of this post. I feel like a crotchety adult trying to hold a conversation with a bunch of chatty teenagers. I write these posts because I want to inform Puna residents about issues that directly affect our community and find out what they think about the situation. Why bother?
Class dismissed.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Rob Tucker - 02-26-2025
I know how you feel. A lot of the time moderating here is like being hall monitor at a middle school.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - HiloJulie - 02-26-2025
(02-26-2025, 06:21 AM)Sam Son Wrote: . Sheesh.... There are now three pages of comments and not one of them addresses the topic of this post. I feel like a crotchety adult trying to hold a conversation with a bunch of chatty teenagers. I write these posts because I want to inform Puna residents about issues that directly affect our community and find out what they think about the situation. Why bother?
Class dismissed.
With all due respect Sam Son, you provided a quite humorous opinion piece as to the status of the Reconstruction of Puna's Lava Inundated Roads Project.
And a very slanted opinion piece at that that blames the County, the surveyors and the contractor for cost overruns and delays. And insinuates that its intentional.
As for my opinion on the subject matter, I think the project got caught up in hasty decisions in the beginning as well as many unforeseen conditions being encountered to the present.
As for what I foresee in the future of this project, my guess is we should be getting prepared for the FEMA funding portion of this project to be cut off which is picking up 75% of the cost.
Funny how the "this ain't the mainland" mantra gets tossed out the window when people want things done at "mainland' speed.
At any event, you gotta just love that Dame with the County and of course, Dame Edna too!
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Moderator 2 - 02-26-2025
I write these posts because I want to inform Puna residents about issues that directly affect our community and find out what they think about the situation. Why bother?
I read your posts, so do many others who don’t reply. I enjoy your upbeat informative writing style on topics that are important to all of us living in Puna. Until I read your OP I had no idea the surveyors, presumably with laser sights and gps still managed to screw up. Costing taxpayers a million dollars.
Please continue your informative posts and assume for every comment about beards, there are a hundred or more who read your post but don’t have questions or anything to add.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - punikahakaiferret - 02-26-2025
I had been reading the thread hoping to hear more info on the actual topic at hand as well; the highway reconstruction, but I've had to wade thru 3 pages of...um...yeeeaaah.
Guess I'm an old fuddy-duddy too; actually wanting to see relevant content about relevant events and news in Puna. Silly me.
Suffice it to say I'm not on Bookface, XShitter, "Insty", Tikflop or any other social media sites.
Maybe some folk need to take their toys and go on over to those places to argue, bicker, nitpick to the nth degree and attempt to one-up each other...and leave the rest of us here for actual useful info-sharing, for which (I believe) this site was originally designed?
Yeah, I'm a cranky ferret today.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - HiloJulie - 02-26-2025
I too am a bit cranky today.
But try as I might, I can't find any reported documentation that discusses:
"As was reported last month, the most recent snafu -- generally blamed on the surveyors the County hired -- ended up costing taxpayers a bit under a million dollars and slowed the project down by four months. With that kind of motivation the contractor shouldn't have any trouble finding something else to jack up the price again."
And I've tried. I'm not saying it did not happen, but I'd sure love to see some form of verified reported information that outlines the issue.
A link to a news outlet perhaps? County website? Something other than the OP's opinion of the matter? And a clearly tainted opinion of the matter at that.
RE: Speeding on the Coast Highway - Moderator 2 - 02-26-2025
A link to a news outlet perhaps?
I don’t have time to decode with The Source, but this mentions a snag
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/11/17/hawaii-news/county-provides-update-on-highway-137/