The tragic wildfires on Maui have made it clear that anybody who puts "equity" at the top of the list of priorities should never be in charge of anything:
Hawaii official concerned with ‘equity’ delayed releasing water for more than 5 hours as wildfires raged: report https://t.co/Ar2BCeqn0i pic.twitter.com/HucejVHNTg
— New York Post (@nypost) August 19, 2023
While many on the Left (with help from the media of course) continue to try and blame climate change for something that seems to have been, ironically enough, caused by progressive measures they say mitigate the effects of climate change, there's another tragic detail to the story:
Maui's electrical grid had many bare metal wires mounted on power poles that were leaning and not up to national standards to withstand high winds, The Associated Press has found. https://t.co/f4F7uwPIAv
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 26, 2023
From the Associated Press:
In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows -- those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact.
Videos and images analyzed by The Associated Press confirmed those wires were among miles of line that Hawaiian Electric Company. left naked to the weather and often-thick foliage, despite a recent push by utilities in other wildfire- and hurricane-prone areas to cover up their lines or bury them.
Compounding the problem is that many of the utility’s 60,000, mostly wooden power poles, which its own documents described as built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the end of their projected lifespan. They were nowhere close to meeting a 2002 national standard that key components of Hawaii’s electrical grid be able to withstand 105 mile per hour winds. A 2019 filing said it had fallen behind in replacing the old wooden poles because of other priorities and warned of a “serious public hazard” if they “failed.”
No doubt the reason this wasn't updated probably has something to do with delays related to "equity" and climate concerns.
So the Democrats who run Hawaii didn't keep up their infrastructure... got it.
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) August 26, 2023
Americans: "What caused the Maui fires?"
— Craig Chamberlin (@CraigChamberlin) August 26, 2023
The Media: "Bare electrical wires and poles in need of replacement, poor maintenance and emergency notifications as well as emergency response."
Americans: "And what caused these infrastructure failures?"
The Media: "Climate Change."
Is there anything climate change CAN'T do?
Anywhere Democrats are in charge is an absolute disaster.
— 🇺🇸Make America Florida🇺🇸 Kevin Owens #DeSantis (@the321local1) August 26, 2023
This isn't climate change. It's the failure and incompetence of the Democrats who run everything there https://t.co/JI59xZGGYF
Democrats use "climate change" as a way to cover their failings while also trying to steal your freedoms.
And even this is the fault of -- ta daaa -- climate change:
Hawaiian Electric said in a statement that it has “long recognized the unique threats” from climate change and has spent milllons of dollars in response, but did not say whether specific power lines that collapsed in the early moments of the fire were bare.
Unreal.
So far nobody's been held accountable, with the exception of your SUV, gas stove and lawn mower.
