chance in going through any water that could cause potential damages or injury to them. we re closing down a lot of our pool activities for this coming weekend because of the lightning threat as well and we have no special events for the city scheduled this weekend so that s actually a positive thing for us. neil: you know, michael, i wondered now with californians will no doubt here, category 4 storm is just tipped into a category 3 so i don t have to wear as much. what do you tell them? it s still something to worry about because these are typically winds that we don t see here. we get gusts, maybe, 30, 40 miles an hour on occasion, but we re going to be seeing gusts upwards of 60 miles per hour and we ve seen our partners in the valley lost 40 power poles overnight because of strong winds. neil: thank you very much. michael alford following all of
prevent this? so, i think, yasmin, this actually turns quickly into two questions. one is of the long term and two is of the short term. both equally important to figure out why this happened in the first place. the long term consists of what you just mentioned, talking about infrastructure improvements based on reporting that was done at the time. this is years ago. so, these lawsuits were now up to five, by the way, allege gross mismanagement. not only of the short term situation, of the wind event that we got, but also the long term of hearing that there may need to be great civilizations and hardening, improvements that maybe you coat some of these cables a little bit better, that you put powerlines, as you mentioned, underground. fire retardant power poles. we don t know why. we don t think we re going to know why for a while. these lawsuits allege lots and part of that will be to determine why that was. the second is the short term, which is that you have the national weather s
different. it hits differently. so, the immediate need right now is for basically housing for about 4500 residents but fema and the governor say they secured about 1000 hotel rooms, 500 for first responders five header for victims for their also working with air b and b to convert vacation rentals to long-term housing for victims. we do know is going to cost more to bring resources out here. but cost does not play into our decision on what were going to bring. at this particular location, jon, yesterday there were miles of traffic people tried to get in and find out if their house and made it to check on loved ones and friends. as you can see right now it is nearly empty. i will tell you that many, many convoys of power poles, electrical cable, food, water, diesel, that going in as people basically try to stay and sustain themselves who are left
we chose this location because what you see behind me, those were elevator shafts there and what you see was a new energy efficient, 89 unit, low income housing project. lahaina is a largely working class town where people working here work in the high-end resorts. now, the state needs to help find these landscapers and plumbers and restaurant workers and temporary housing. without them, maui does not work as the tourist mecca that it is. down the street is a tow yard, no a junk yard where every card is now worthless and burnt down to the tires that don t exist. another big question being asked, why didn t officials sound the tsunami alert when high winds knocked down power poles? people were found in huddles