Should have
been warned
I was very saddened to hear of all the financial and human life loss in your paradise over the past 24 hours or so.
I have been listening to various different Hawaii officials who claim that they had no way to know of or predict the combination of high winds and fire that caused the damage and loss of life there.
I live in Aiken, South Carolina, and during my hours (six hours ahead of yours) from 6 a.m. until 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel very clearly and very specifically on numerous different times during this three-hour period made it abundantly clear that Maui and other Hawaiian Islands were under a severe “wind threat” caused by the hurricane to your south, which was a very strong low-pressure system passing within the wind field of the normal Pacific high-pressure system that controls your weather and the trade winds most of the time.
Whenever you get a low- and high-pressure systems pass close to each other, it always causes wind and obviously in this case high winds exactly as Jim Cantore predicted many hours before this emergency started!
If Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel in Atlanta can figure this, out then someone in Hawaii should have figured it out and alerted the proper authorities.
Paul Tomasi
Aiken, South Carolina
Cartoon
off the mark
The political cartoon in the Aug. 3 paper was shocking to see. Its caption had Jack Smith saying, “And another thing … we think Trump is hoarding banned light bulbs.”
So funny, eh! The day after the most important indictment in our nation’s history, this paper is making petty jokes about special prosecutor Jack Smith, and implying his investigations are frivolous and unserious.
To some of us, the attempt to corruptly overturn our democratic election is a rather serious matter, and Jack Smith is a very brave man doing important work.
Maybe in the future, take seriously the conspiracies to overthrow our government, and refrain form trivializing this matter.
Just a thought.
Russell Ruderman
Keaau
Blood-sucking
lawyers
I love hearing that the legal team of lawyers representing former President Donald Trump keeps on requesting delays in court proceedings on his many criminal indictments.
Why? Because the majority of lawyers are really blood-suckers not working for the client’s best interest, and the more delays, the more they get paid for doing absolutely nothing.
And since Trump has swindled a lot of people in the past, it’s about time he gets ripped off by his attorneys, too.
As the saying goes, what goes around comes around, and it couldn’t happen to a better corrupted crook than Trump.
Prentiss Moreno
Hilo
