03-01-2025, 11:28 PM (This post was last modified: 03-01-2025, 11:35 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
folks living in Waikaloa Village couldn't afford cutting the trees and paying their green fees too.
They may not live under blue tarps, but Waikoloa Village is considered affordable housing on the west side. I bet most of them pay plenty federal taxes too.
"I guess it was a DEI grant because the poor disadvantaged folks living in Waikaloa (sic) Village couldn't afford cutting the trees and paying their green fees too."
So, in a nutshell, what you are basically saying is that the people of Waikoloa Village are so much more well off financially because they pay green fees, implying a "rich" man's sport, so thus they can afford to trim the trees under HECO's powerlines without anyone's help.
I wonder how that concept would work with income taxes. You know, those who make so much more could afford to pay so much more. Right?
This site is still up. Is this something different? I get volcano alerts and earthquake alerts and high surf alerts but Iʻve never gotten a vog alert ever. Are the vog reports connected to the Tsunami Center?
03-02-2025, 02:50 AM (This post was last modified: 03-02-2025, 02:54 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
Is this something different?
I tried to edit and add links to my post above, but TwitterX links are creating error messages on Punaweb when I click Post Update.
NOAA had layoffs, as well as the related but separate Pacific Tsunami Center.
From Tropical Tidbits, a site many of us are familiar with from hurricane season:
03-02-2025, 03:07 AM (This post was last modified: 03-02-2025, 03:13 AM by Punatang.)
(03-01-2025, 11:17 AM)TomK Wrote:
(03-01-2025, 12:01 AM)Punatang Wrote: The constraints placed on us make this myopic thread all broken eggs and no omelette.
You did have some bacon and toast on the go at the same time, yes? At the very least, you'll end up with a bacon butty.
No I didn't. Mahalo for expanding my vocabulary with "butty". It is an interesting word with multiple meanings. Your comments always usually often have a tie-in to the thread at hand so is this a double entendre? Are you suggesting that folks should learn to shovel coal? If so, that may be received as rather insensitive. If not, I did find this which made me hungry.
03-02-2025, 03:23 AM (This post was last modified: 03-02-2025, 04:39 AM by HiloJulie.)
(03-01-2025, 03:00 AM)Punatang Wrote: Paybacks have only just begun.
Got to give credit where credit is due.
The Tang was right.
Laying off the early warning weather staff is a "justified" payback - and they've "only just begun." This will show us!
I suddenly can't shake the most beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter singing "We've Only Just Begun"
(I'd put up a YT video of Karen and Richard, but I guess the PunaWeb blocking feature is too inefficient and triggers some to complain about it. Relentlessly. Ad nauseam.)
CNN previously reported the terminations seemed to have been done in a way to minimize a paper trail, leaving it difficult for employee organizations and even direct supervisors to know who was fired and when.
The cuts were made, with few exceptions, to probationary employees in job functions across the board, and included forecasters who issue life-saving warnings to the public for tornadoes, hurricanes and other extreme weather threats — the same warnings that feed the alerts you receive on your weather app of-choice.
Julie I failed to log in and saw your most pathetic post yet. You've destroyed any little bit of credibility you have left. You actually took a quote from a completely different thread about a completely different topic that has absolutely zero to do with government in any way shape or form and dropped it into this thread to make others believe that I've said the firings of these poor federal workers is some type of payback. You are a liar.
