it s the history of lahaina, that it s so devastating, like, the banyan tree is gone. the pioneer head is gone. those are important historical places, and they re gone. so much history there. so much history. i wonder if there was any advance warning of this. of course, the hurricane whose winds are fueling these fires, they ve been hovering off the coast for some time. were you given any warning in the hours or the days in advantage of this? so, yes and no. being that i worked on the boat, we look at the weather, we look at what s coming ahead and when there s strong winds, we obviously pay attention to that. i don t think anybody was prepared for how strong the wind actually got.
there s the winds blowing through, but on this picture here, you re able to see the but some red spots, but here s maui, and here s lahaina . some people will take a butt up, you watch the sunrise, and then ride with your bicycle all the way back down. you ve been on this road that you re not supposed to take don t take it, especially if it rains, but that s running through where the fires are, the other hot spots that concern me as well. that lahaina and the banyan
i was hanging out with people. it was the most i came here from florida and i ve been in hurricanes before, this was on the morse experience i ve ever had with winds, hurricane welt like that. there wasn t a single cloud in the sky, and it was a beautiful day. people were walking on the in the morning to look at the swells. they are going to go surfing. then the wind just really picked up, and it was like 30, 40 knots, and then upwards the 60-knot gusts, and just ripped through, and we ll see a tree just fall. things are just flying through the sky. at some point, it was like, this is pretty bad. and i remember walking around lahaina just right there on front street to check in on my friends at a coffee shop.
lat latitude. it just reminds you of southern california. even on the winward side. so, yes 30% of maui in normally dry conditions. you can see it with some of the pictures, an it s not green at all. dry and windy for the next couple days. the you start to the winds here blowing through, and because we had them so close together, combined they actually caused this to whap. you can kind of see them,
walling moving wildfires. there is usually a ring road and there is not a whole lot of place to get out and they have been just suffering, weeks of very dry windy conditions and the leeward side of the island is much drier than anybody had anticipated and people just weren t ready for this and it is heart braking. lahaina has a massive tree in the center of town and it looks like all of it was burned away. first season of the white lotus was filmed athe four seasons and there is a fire near there and another third fire closer to the middle of maui. and you could tell they re just really just coming to grips with it now. so much wind and smoke that they don t have a full assessment yet. chad, we re told that the fires are made much worse by this these hurricane winds from 800 miles away. how soon might the strong winds die down? i think tonight. down to around 40.