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Thank you Heather. I think about Maui everyday, too.

Everything about it is really scary. Somehow Hawaii came up in conversation at work the other day with a sales rep that stopped by to bring us a Christmas gift. I work with my family.

My brother-in-law and I both talked about Lahaina and her face was blank and we gave her a lot to think about. She knew nothing. She didn't know the sirens never went off, the exits were blocked, the water was off, cell phones down but could call the main land, a high percentage of kids haven't registered for school elsewhere in the state, the boats on fire, the specific laws changed prior & smart city plans, the Vegas shooting police chief finding himself employed as police chief in Maui ... on & on.

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Oprah's net worth is said to be 3.5 Billion smackers. That's $3,500,000,000.

Lahaina's population was 9,000; say the average household consisted of 4 persons (from singles to mixed generations under one roof) , so maybe 2,250 homes? So the great humanitarian Oprah could buy each family a new, million dollar home and still have $ 1,250,000,000 left over to buy her Cozy Earth sheets and teeshirts. Or she could get a deal with a contractor and rebuild each home for a quarter million each, and you do the math. That would barely put a dint in her obscene fortune.

...and what did that b*tch do instead? Tried to "crowd fund" some relief for the plebes at her doorstep. God. May there be justice in the afterlife. Please.

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