05-28-2024, 05:24 PM
(05-28-2024, 03:54 PM)randomq Wrote: Remember when our lava survivors were living in a tent camp? And Maui's fire survivors are in 5 star hotels and airbnbs? That sums up how much people care about Puna.
That sums it up perfectly. And no, Julie, a telescope ain't gonna make a damn bit of difference.
If you want to make life in Puna more than the backwater it currently is I'd suggest lobbying gov to deal with the real questions at hand.. starting with how do we live safely with our active volcanoes? How do we prepare and be ready for eruptions when they do happen? How do we reconcile all these substandard subdivisions? How do we get the State/County to be responsible for the district's infrastructure? The roads, water and sewage?
Otherwise, Puna is where folks go if they ain't got (ie can't afford) anywhere else to go. If you want to break that cycle it ain't gonna happen with a rich man's toy. All of their toys. That ain't it. That ain't even a fraction if it.
And, to think, the Hub (created by citizens not government) was what Puna got for their tax dollars, while as randomq points out Maui's refugees lived in some of the best hotels Hawaii has to offer.