How many on this board from lower puna?

[Frankie Stapleton]

Freespirit, I'm sooo sorry to hear you and Denny have lost your jobs at this crucial time! Please let me know if there's anything I can do.

You still may be able to use the HwnShrs place as a vacation rental....none of us know what Pele's gonna do. Maybe if the tourist trade tanks, you could turn one of your places into a care home as we don't have as many in lower Puna as there are in the Kea'au area. It would be a totally different direction for you guys but I think it would be doable.

[redefinehappy]

We are staying put in the People's Republic of Nanawale. Will hold steady as long as we can (safely) stay. Iselle was a "practice run" for preparedness and it also created a closer knit community (online and off). I won't say I am grateful that we were hit by the storm as I know so many people are still digging out, cleaning up and trying to mend their properties, but I am grateful for the many positive moments and massive amount of aloha which followed behind it.

-Allison

[colleenshamblin]

we will be staying in Nanawale no matter what, abandoning the community barely even occurred to me. viva pahoa