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Anyone else watching this devastation ? My wife and I honeymooned on Maui 28 years ago and were looking to return next year. We stayed in the Lahaina area with it's historic whaling port and downtown that had most of the buildings on the Historic Registry. ALL that is gone now, burned to the ground. We bought a local artist's print of an oil painting he did from a gallery on main street and had it framed by a well known framer who lived near Haleakala and had it shipped home later.
All the homes of the people who worked and lived in that town are gone too, they have nothing left.

Some of the first churches built on Maui in the early 1800s with cemeteries of the native royalties have burned as well and the historic grave markers with them.

The town, also, is home to a famous 100 year old Banyan tree that covered an entire city block, which people are afraid has been destroyed as well.

Just gut wrenching for us to see this and have a connection to the town. Too much of a reminder of Hurricane Ian that destroyed so much of the Fort Meyer area and our vacation rental we had reserved on Pine Island for this past February less than a year ago.