The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.

The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•11 months ago

      LOL, whatever dude, the loss of Lahaina should not be underrepresented, but it was not the only primary attraction. As someone who woke up with breathing issues from cane smoke while living in Kihei, Wailuku, and Paia, it was a problem for everyone within wind’s distance. Anyone, including yourself, who says otherwise is just fucking ignorant. And any such law that we may need to have in place is totally irrelevant to the cane fields and all the reasons that whole operation was stopped. The only people legitimately sad about it were cane field workers, which lasted until they got different jobs. While we live on the same rock, we clearly live in different realities.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•11 months ago

          If you can’t breathe here then you should move.

          Not a problem now, because the burning has stopped, dumbass.

          You talk about how something was the biggest local news item, yet apparently totally ignored the years of complaints from locals and long-term residents suffering from various forms of smoke-induced asthma, emphysema, etc… which is why it’s ridiculous that people here are still giving older folks wearing masks a hard time, because many of them were wearing masks during burning seasons to help with the effects before the pandemic even happened.

          Now we have even more dust and fires since there’s no irrigation system to control it.

          LOL, no, that’s not true either. The main places we had uncontrolled fires didn’t have irrigation to begin with, with exception of the one downhill from Pukalani headed towards Maui Meadows (edit: actually, no, the area approaching Maui Meadows never had irrigation either), but please, do point out where the irrigation systems were in Kula, Olinda, and over on the west side so I can go see where that used to be. All the other fires we’ve had recently are the pedestrian variety probably caused by cigarettes being thrown out like usual, and they were all quickly brought under control. I get the alerts for emergencies and all clears just like everyone else here.

          This nonsense may go over with people who don’t live here, but I do live here.

          And don’t put “maui” in your screen name or emails; that’s carpetbagger shit right there.

          No, you can get over it. If it’s a problem for you, that’s just too bad.

            • @[email protected]English
              0•11 months ago

              Wrong again, not sure what part of “Paia” and “Wailuku” you don’t understand, but neither of those places has had new housing projects.

              Also not sure what part of “locals” you don’t understand, but not many of them are in new housing projects either.

              I lived for several years at the end of West Vineyard St in Wailuku, overlooking Happy Valley, in the opposite direction from Kihei, and we got smoked out by cane burning on a regular basis. That’s not even remotely a new housing project area.

              edit: seriously tho, are you actually trying to blame smoke complaints on vog? That’s the dumbest thing you’ve said yet. It’s a completely different problem with milder effects. People think they’re having allergies and going for the antihistamines, they aren’t waking up with their eyes and lungs burning.

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•11 months ago

                  Dude who says all of Maui is brown, going to die, and has no primary attractions left says someone else is being melodramatic. LOL

                  And clearly you don’t know as much about the winds as you claim. Feel free to go door to door over there and ask people about it.