Maui was my home for many years - as was California - where ‘Pacific Palisades’, ‘Butte’, ‘Eaton’, ‘Sonoma’ and many many more fires peaked their havoc. The world watches for a few days - maybe weeks - and then moves on. The reality - is very different.

The famous Banyan tree is most certainly recovering - the rest - not so much. I will let you do your own ‘recovery’ searches for other areas.

I wouldn’t call Avi Ronen a ‘friend’, we met a few times on Maui, he being one of those musicians that call Maui their home. This is his post on Facebook.

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Our house is gone All the beautiful memories All my guitars over a hundred All gone lines of truss rods standing Like sad soldiers my amps pedals
All the custom guitars I’ve build and kept All the acoustic guitars that KP made for me all gone I’m so devastated beyond words We’re safe my girls are great stronger than me I’m so sad Our town looks insane it’s so horrible Everything gone The only thing that’s left in lahaina town is my shop still standing I don’t even know what to do next I’m so devastated So many lives lost in our town The damage is absolutely insane Looks like an atomic bomb blew up in lahaina It’s so sad heartbreaking Sorry I had to share this I want to wish peace and love to everyone we are so heart broken over our sweet town My house all the memories And all my guitars so heart breaking

💬 Avi Ronen

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