2018-04-15.fae 2021-11-07 16:38:07 -1000

While we've had our share of MilitaryIndustrialComplex antics, Kaua'i just experienced a huge test of Directed Energy Weapons, especially since the media has focussed upon the flood damage, and completely ignored that this was the most intense lightning storm (at least in Kilauea), that I've ever seen. -- celeste

• Biblical flood-Hawai'i days of Noah rainfall.
• Emergency Proclamation Issued Declaring Kaua'i a Disaster.
• Kaua'i's Destroyed neighborhoods (ahupua'a) Evacuated.
• 220+ Airlifted, Search and Rescue Continues on Flood Damaged Kaua'i.
• Kauai Storm: 28 Inches Of Rain Brings Landslides, Floods And Wrecked Homes.
• Emergency Access Route to Wainiha and Ha'ena to Open Saturday.
• $19.7 Million in Damage, 532 Homes Impacted by April Flood.
• Ige signs request for Presidential Disaster Declaration.
• The governor's request for assistance by the Hazard Mitigation Grant program was also approved for the State of Hawai'i. This program provides assistance to all Hawai'i counties to prevent or reduce long-term risks to life and property caused by natural hazards.
• New Admiral to Lead Coast Guard 14th District.
• Among the projects planned for PMRF are research and development in advanced hypersonic and directed energy weapons, which could include a high energy laser. Other plans call for testing unmanned boats and aircraft, along with air-breathing hypersonic vehicles that cruise at four times the speed of sound. The navy also wants to operate a portable undersea tracking range and increase its antisubmarine and missile defense activities.

Faery blessings -- celeste