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More update specifics needed on power, phone, etc
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08-11-2014, 03:52 PM
Kander, as long as it takes to get it done safely.
Dayna http://www.FarmingAloha.com www.E-Z-Caps.com
Dayna Robertson
At Home Hawaii Real Estate Sales and Property Management RS-85517 Dayna.JustListedInHawaii.com Dayna.Robertson@gmail.com 
08-11-2014, 07:51 PM
Someone told me today that Abercrombie refused to sign the paperwork that would let Helco get reimbursed by FEMA for all the storm damage repairs because Helco didn't respond to the governor's recent request for rationalization of their high rates. And reportedly, Helco has cut their working hours in retaliation.
I trust my source, but any part of this could have been a miscommunication... ><(((*> ~~~~ ><(("> ~~~~ ><'> ~~~~ >(>
08-12-2014, 04:07 AM
quote: If it was a regular job and yamada was doing the work then probably a few years.
08-12-2014, 05:29 AM
my rant...
constant complainers or after the fact finger pointers... you ALL need to catch this blunt 'in your face' CLUE! Do your part and KILL the larger rubbish trees on your own personal property! ASAP! and buy a GDamn generator! duh?! dont blame heco or billy for you being foolishly blind to all the common sense 'red flags' that predicted this so called 'disaster'.... knowing that most people look the other way and ignore the albizia problem or actually try for promoting them (ie surfboard BS) ...it was going to happen sooner than later. next time it may be a Major League-like category 4 hurricane like Iniki (w/145 MPH winds instead of the little league-like 60-70 MPH tropical storm we just went through Thur night). if an 'Iniki' (Kauai 1992) actually hit the BI Im sure ALL those rubbish trees (and your home below them) will be swiftly flattened and stripped for you FREE by Mother Nature herself! in reality, if (most of) you would have prepared/maintained your property, there is a good chance many of you would probably still have the electricity (you obviously cant live w/o) and clear roads to travel to safeway on.... last year I had one small albizia I found in thickets on my property, I girdled it in a couple minutes, and now its been standing dead for many months now (not growing), but if I 'ignored' it (like many in Puna do daily), it would now be 2X bigger and 2X more work removing it.... 2 more years from now it would be a major problem for my cabin and driveway... not hard predicting a future problem with these trees... I bet next year many of you, after returning to your mainland-like grid dependent lifestyle, will have forgotten this lesson! Dont! it may be a member of your family crushed under that 'pretty tree' you constantly ignore... PS. and stop with the excuses of Roundup etc contaminated ground water/killing bees or butterflies etc.... it doesnt happen! Its plant specific! Some need to wake up, ditch your lemming friends, and NOT always believe all the uneducated misinformed idiots and their constant fear mongering hype! rant all pau aloha ****************************************************************** save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
08-12-2014, 06:14 AM
quote: Sounds like the reaction of a disgruntled soon to be replaced nearly x GOVENER . As soon as we replace Schatz with Hannabusa we will have someone who really cares with experience to boot. As well the whole finish of this voting affair is to be scrutinized very closely as the importance of it to all parties cannot be over emphasized.
08-12-2014, 06:55 AM
The phone's starting working yesterday in my area which is lower Opihikao, after 5 days without service , coincidentally about an hour or 2 after I made a post about the mega cell phone tower( + )at PGV being on the grounds of, or on an adjacent site with extremely close proximity to PGV, thus pretty much nullifying any excuse about a power failure for lack of ATT coverage in my area .
08-12-2014, 07:06 AM
Wow bananahead,
You sure are an expert about all 10,000 of the people on this island who don't have power right now! So you just psychically know how every single one of us without power maintain our properties, if we can afford to spend $1000 on a generator that can operate a catchment pump, and just can't resist kicking people when they are down. What an unpleasant delivery of your message, most people have a pretty hard time listening to someone who is being an insulting know-it-all during a tough time. FYI: my road lost power because of trees that were ALL growing in the right of way or on the property of off island owners. It is technically illegal to go onto someone else's property and kill their trees. A solution to allow people recourse if neighboring properties have hazard trees was shot down by the Kona side county counselors who didn't see a need for it. Virtually all the damage on Maku'u was also from empty lots, often lots that were bulldozed and then allowed to grow into albizia thickets. So yelling at all of us who live here and are trying to get by without water or power, telling us it is all our own fault because we don't follow your prescribed rules for living is mean spirited and insulting during a difficult time. Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys. Polish Proverb 
08-12-2014, 07:57 AM
Carol,When we first moved & rented, the adjacent lots had baby albizias. The property manager saw them while we were doing our walk through & said, I've got to write those guys & state I will kill the seedlings if they do not object. We questioned this (I mean these were cute little tiny trees to us FOBs) & he stated "I will not manage a property with those trees growing nearby....
So we have also done the same with our off island neighbors, write them (when the trees are little) that you will be killing the dangerous trees if they do not send an objection... None of our off-island neighbors have ever bothered to send an objection.... & it is sure easier to deal with a few manini trees a couple of times a year .... but only one of the near by lots has large junk trees, and the house owner adjacent to that lot owner chose a more adversarial route of telling the off island neighbor to do something about the trees...and they grew, and now the house has 3 gunpowder trees against it....
08-12-2014, 08:07 AM
The albizia growing on absentee lots in our neighborhood are mostly over 3 feet in diameter, it is not a matter of just cutting back a few seedlings, they also float seed off for miles around every spring.
I just really resent BH's superior "it is all your own fault that this happened because you don't live your life like I do" attitude being dumped on people he doesn't even know, whose situation he doesn't understand, while those same people are going through a hard enough time. The smugness of some of the off gridders is a little obnoxious too. Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys. Polish Proverb |
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