Family in HA

[sistersue]

Does anyone know what happened to their dog? Did he drown too? []

[PaulW]

Who?

[sistersue]

Brooklyn Rosenberg in Hawaiian Acres - the Big Island Video News website has the story and the chickens died but I'm upset over the dog. I hope they unhooked him before they ran up the hill. He could have swam to safety if they did [].

[terracore]

http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2018/0...residents/

Looks like the dog made it?

The gal in the background is a multi-tasking champ. She can give a TV interview, smoke, and grate cheese all at the same time.

[Punatic007]

I found this story shocking on many levels. Appears they purchased a lot in quite the flood zone, wondering why that sale was legal. The house is not code, again not legal. Why would you want to show your house on t.v if it's obviously far from being legal? Are people so smitten knowing the county won't do anything? Why doesn't the county condemn this type of living situation? I think the dog drowned. And there's more but I'll stop here.

[terracore]

A lot of people here live in very similar conditions (not so much the flood zone but the plywood palace). I'm sure they would love to live in a permitted McMansion but they looked to be practicing a type of homesteading. Maybe my opinion isn't popular but that should be their right. Though now that they have been put on the internet I'm sure the county will be sending them a notice of increased property taxes for the improvements on their property- and continue offering them no services.

ETA: "should be"

[eigoya]

The dog is in video post-rain, so it is as pictured (unless there was more to story).

[Punatic007]

I agree with you terracore to a certain degree however this particular setup looks incredibly unsanitary. If the house is not visible from the road or from neighbors homes then shacks are fine with me, if done with a little class and knowledge of proper sanitation as to not endanger the neighbors. But when you have drug users and foreign nationals who don't know and don't care to know what is healthy or not hence infringing on the rights of their neighbors, the county needs to step in.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

if done with a little class and knowledge of proper sanitation as to not endanger the neighbors.

Water flows downhill. The water on their property flows downhill, even if they’re in a low spot.

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” - President Donald J. Trump, 7/25/18

[eigoya]

"foreign nationals who don't know and don't care to know what is healthy "
Hmmm, they looked pretty American to me, or did they? Those foreign nationals (ie: the rest of the planet) are an inscrutable bunch...