Diablo is my fifth furbaby but my true soul animal 🥰 and I… am his trusty can opener 😂 thank you Honi Honi Cats Maui for uniting me with this fluffy boy ❤

And THEY will always love YOU! :D

So awesome working with Culture Lands Maui. What a great organization who just wants to protect the land and educate others, including visitors, about Hawaiian values and malama ‘aina.

We love the Cat Cafe Maui! Two of our furbabies come from there!

Have you visited Cat Cafe Maui? I definitely recommend visiting at least once on your trip here! Learning more about the cat situation in Maui gives you an insight to island life and some of our struggles. Plus, the cats are adorable 🥰

If you’re hesitant to adopt a three legged cat, don’t worry, they are just as much of a handful as four legged ones 😂 especially during zoomies! I can’t imagine what Orange would do with a fourth leg when he’s already this wild! 🐈 😊

Pretty nimble up there for a tripod!

the day before the storm I was sitting on those rocks where the road got washed away. So much man made destruction of the natural ways of the aina, it's going to destroy the Islands

The Fly Hawaii program is so awesome! Thanks Cat Cafe Maui for the awesome program and for helping so many kitties!

Have you been to Cat Cafe Maui or any cat cafe? This is one of my favorites I’ve been to, and not just because they gave me two of my four kitties Orange and Horus 🐈🐈‍⬛

This is what happens after 20 years of County nepotism, deferred maintence, and deferred administration.

I didn’t know that kicking in the face was part of bathtime

Horus and Orange are both from Cat Cafe Maui but they didn’t meet until I adopted them a year and a half apart. They love each other and their Honi Honi Cats Maui rescue brother Diablo and Maui Humane Society sister Toothless (who has all her teeth!) I love seeing them all interact and I’m so grateful to all these rescues and organizations that helped me build my family ❤

Why is it, dubbed, Ukrainian living in Hawaii,, THIS IS AMERICAN 🇺🇸, and we would LOVE to have America 🇺🇸 , join us in our home country AID , HELPING US AMERICANS in our NATURAL DISASTERS . NOT OTHER COUNTRIES PLEASE 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!💫👵🏼❤️

Where exactly is this please?

The Nakalele blowhole is such a magical place! But all the tourists standing right next to it made me so nervous. Last thing we need is more people hurting themselves there and having another area we can't go to because it's “dangerous" 😢 So if you visit, stay far away from any wet areas! You can feel the mist from it from quite a distance, no need to endanger yourself or others. People have been swept away here, stay safe! ❤

I love the Nakalele blowhole! We spent a long time monitoring tide charts and finally went at a time when high tide wasn’t in the middle of the night. It was so cool watching whale spouts right behind this water spout!

Kihei always getting screwed by Kula

Kihei is swamp land & from upcountry is all blue rock. Every storm from upcountry it all come rushing down. It’s just how the island is designed & formed.

27 years on maui mostly kihei . We know where the problem lies . Politicians remain silent as always.

Orange juuuuuuice.

you can't stop mother nature and you certainly can't stop inept politicians - can't blame it on DEW either ... I lived in Hawaii for 50 years and Hawaii people always find a way to bounce back from catastrophe

So sad😭 I lived in south kihei many years. So sad to see this. My thoughts and prayers go out to you all🙏❤

For years the rivers were piped into oceans and lakes to keep the water level consistent as you can see the water levels are back. California Pacificades have finished . Now this area has. The trees growing on the sides of the cliffs are the markers to where the lands were extended outwards into the waters. I'm glad to see that the rivers decided to take care of their own needs instead of worrying about the wants of others. I hope if others decide to this to them again ; nature will not be as patient or as kind that she has been in the past. . ....be grateful for what you have ; instead of building what you cannot.

As an Erosion expert - all of this could have been avoided with proper engineering and planning. Unfortunately, our Maui and Hawaiian govt have taken bribes for years and this is the result. It's going to get worse.

Kihei canoe club needs a spot light. Since you’ve got so much attention

Go find a local Elder and have them narrate over your video to talk about all these spots.

Would you go diving with sharks? I was scared but I’m glad I did it! 🦈

When you live in or build in a flood zone what do you expect to happen

What hotel/resort is that

Maui and Hawaii has been destroyed by democratics like the mayor and Josh pineapple 🍍head Green ! No aloha here 😊

There is no such thing as flood controll in Hawaii

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Lining pockets is what these developers care about, along with certain politicians. As long as there's land, they will always find a way to make money off it despite the damage it causes. The proof is in the sandbags

Im a Russian living in Hawaii....They dont have rain in Ukraine?...

Thank you for speaking up I grew up in Kihei and there is no competency County is ruining the land.. I feel bad for the birds

They recently cleared all the trees and shrubs from behind my condo in Kihei and now the storm run off is much worse. Thank you county of Maui. Class action lawsuit coming your way.

It’s also incompetent, crooked politicians

Yow.

So true.

Poor Maui. God Bless Maui and all its residents 🙏

Nice footage! As a drone operator you know to read NOTAMS before flying. What happened between that drone and plane over the Palisades was avoidable.

Before Development Kihei was Mostly Swamp Lands , What’s the Answers Over Developers ? That whole Coastline all the way to Maalaea is Below Sea Level The Storm was a Strong Low pressure that Pulled the Entire South Pacific Jet stream and Atmospheric Trough straight up Through Hawaii ! Watch California this next week , this isn’t Normal That a low pressure Passing North of Hawaii With a Clockwise Torque normally Tails Down over Hawaii ( Pineapple Express) But Never Pulled the Whole South Pacific Moisture Up into the Northern Jet stream I’ve seen it Now in the Past Few years it’s called Weather Manipulation/ Disaster Capitalism/ the States Governor Knows What It’s Signed into , Look at all the Planned Developments zones And Green Fool Deals they planned

Get involved with your Maui County General Plan and the Community Development Plan (CDP) for Kihei area. Thats where you can monitor and give input in any development changes.

Very well said, great footage, mahalo!

Aloha from Kula. Grew up on Rhode Island. Close friend of mine stuck in Ukraine. Good work you’re doing. Loving us all, JPM

I am a Maui raised local, and to see this video is absolutely disgusting. Maui County planning is by far the worst planning department on the Earth. They are destroying our beautiful Maui home.

I agree it's happened every year for the last four years straight now when we get these Kona storms. This time around it's the worst I've seen it, though. Every time it happens, the damage to S. Kihei Road is worse than the time before. Four years ago, erosion from one of these storms ate a tiny little nibble off the shoulder of S Kihei Rd across Isana. They just painted the center road lines to arch around the spot for a while and otherwise let traffic through as normal anyway before they fixed it. The next year there was a storm, a significantly bigger chunk of the road washed out in the same area where the manhole cover is, and the loss to the road was big enough that they completely closed that section of S Kihei Rd between Ohukai and Kaonoulu for a few weeks. In that same storm, there was also a bit of shoulder of the road loss near the bridge by the intersection with Kaonoulu. Lengths of guardrails washed away, too. Now with the new storm, a -lot- more length of road was washed out, plus the first damage to the road across the ABC store/Sugar Beach Bakery. Those stores keep getting flooded out in these storms and are closed for weeks. I don't know how many more times they will tolerate doing that before they move or rebuild their location on stilts. And then when all that mud dries, it blows in the wind making outdoor exercise awful with all that nasty dust in the air. This is not sustainable.

this looks like more damage than usual - solid hits all thru from Menehune to Sugar Beach, multiple places the asphalt chewed away, usually it's one or two channels the most get chewed up some...

Musk&trump will be sending paper towels.