11-10-2008, 02:45 PM
I understand their predicament, but is one or a few people who stress over the smoke once every 1 1/2 years, have the power to shut an entire island off from their only real source of work. If it was every week or month yeah, but so rare it happens, and a lot of us don't mind it. I will be living right beside a volcano, and am building an A/C room to bail to when it gets bad. I'd venture the Maui population isn't any less healthy than Big Islanders, and they have jobs!
Gordon J Tilley