James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!
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Publishers note;
Enjoy each day as if it's your last. With so many natural disasters and mass shootings in this day-n-age, nobody ever knows? Is the end of of times near, decide for yourselves?
James "Kimo" Rosen
Publisher/Blogger-n-chief~dakinetalk blog
Blog #2021~Kimo's world's #268
Armageddon is a reality, just watch the news
Enjoy each day as if it's your last. With so many natural disasters and mass shootings in this day-n-age, nobody ever knows? Is the end of of times near, decide for yourselves?
James "Kimo" Rosen
Publisher/Blogger-n-chief~dakinetalk blog
Blog #2021~Kimo's world's #268
Every day there is a new natural disaster somewhere. Most recently the California wildfires were devastating,
like none other. There is literally nothing left of the town of 'Paradise' in Northern California. The cause of the "Campfire" wildfire is under investigation. Paradise was NOT caused by a campfire. It was called “Campfire” because it was named for the nearby Campfire Road. The fires destroyed a whole city and claimed hundreds of lives. People burnt to death driving to escape in their cars, like something from the Twilight zone. The images were shocking, similar to those of Armageddon depicted in horror movies I witnessed as a child.Paradise’s name is a source of some mystery.
An alternate spelling ~Paradice~(sic) found on some early maps gave way to the theory that 'Paradise' wasn’t named for its heavenly qualities, but instead the similar-sounding phrase, “pair of dice.”
The town of Paradise was also featured in the 1939 cinema classic "Gone With the Wind"
https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article221433130.html
Simultaneously in Southern California the Woosley fires in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties including Thousand Oaks destroyed hundreds
of homes. Many of those were mansions belonging to celebrities. This all while a mass shooter on the eve of the fires gunned down 12 people at the Borderline country western bar in Thousand Oaks. Why do people commit such heinous acts? The images are devastating and look like the end of the world.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-injured-reported-mass-shooting-california-bar/story?id=59050130
Last July in Greece fast-moving wildfires near Athens killed nearly a hundred people and forced thousands of tourists and residents to run for their lives and jump aboard boats and makeshift rafts. People had to run in desperation into the Agean waters to escape death.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/world/europe/greece-fire-deaths.html
Greece wildfires had people running for their lives into the ocean for safety. |
April 2018, flood on Kauai |
Where I live in Hawaii we've had major floods and volcanic eruptions of major devastation this past year of the likes we haven't ever seen. Every time
Lava from flow Kilauea Volcano crossing a road and damaging power transmission equipment. |
The sound of rain bouncing off my roof is no longer soothing, but always has me thinking of flooding and what else can go wrong.
Our neighbor Japan suffered the Fukushima nuclear power plant
disaster in 2011 triggered by a 9.0 earthquake, followed by one of the deadliest tidal waves and tsunami's in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AdFjklR50
Mass shootings have become a common breaking news item. This was never the norm. As of November 7, 2018 there have been 307 mass shootings this past year
in America, that's almost one a day! Hawai'i, where I live, last January there was a Ballistic missile scare where families were jumping into manhole covered sewer's for protection. 2018 has been the worst for natural disasters and mass shootings in history, how much more can civilization endure?
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-mass-shootings-in-america-this-year-2018-2
Armageddon is a reality for myself and many others.
Global warming, climate change, call it what you wish, however just watch the news-- God's truth was told many years ago.
God bless us all...
11 comments:
Well written!
Paradise was NOT caused by a campfire. It was called “Campfire” because it was named for the nearby Campfire Road. The forest service names fires from geographic markers in the area, not the cause of the fire which (depending on who you talk to) was caused by PG& E wires, or crashed drones, military lasers, drought and climate change. ALL of the previous have been known to start fires but I never heard about the final determination of this tragedy.
Anonymous left a comment, there goes my campfire theory? Sure was confusing when every article and newsclip talked about Campfire? I stand corrected.
Please note we made a retraction in the first paragraph of the blog! Mahalo Anonymous!
True....🎶🎶 'it's the end of the world as we know it....🎶🎶
I have family in Paradise pretty much since it (Paradise) was born... they had an Imu Bird farm up there... we still have yet to hear from. total of 4 KUPUNA & 2 families one w/3 the other 5... EXCELLENT write James Kimo Rosen... BLESSINGS & PRAYERS TO ALL..
Prayers for your ohana, hope you hear from them soon! Keep me posted...
Kimo, What you say is true. However, let’s look at the cup as half full. These disasters brought out the best in many folks. Young and old, rich or poor, worked together to fill and lay sandbags in the Woolsey Fire area so that forecasted rain wouldn’t cause catastrophic runoff damage from the bare hills. Volunteer help was freely given, without regard to abilities & worth. Lots of folks got together and cooked Thanksgiving dinner for those who had lost so much in their homes. And a huge thanks to all the first responders and all the responders who followed, as the heroes in fact. My friend Bonnie B. & I do a short Current Events presentation in Southern California, at local assisted living homes. One caveat: no negative news, no vehicle or plane crashes, no politics, no terrorism, no murders. What remains? Examples are science (Mars landing), high technology, heroic deeds, sports, & nature. It takes a lot of reading to find these. We take pride in bringing a smile to our senior citizen friends.
Aloha Allena,
Sad but true, disasters always seem to bring people together. It happened on Kauai during the recent floods and past hurricanes too.
Kimo
i couln't find any difference in the 2 paragraphs. Read 'em twice.
The original paragraph I blamed on wildfires and was incorrect, here is the original paragraph which I deleted form the blog,"Original first paragraph, I blame wildfires on a campfire....
"Every day there is a new natural disaster somewhere. Most recently the California wildfires were devastating, like none other. There is literally nothing left of the town of 'Paradise' in Northern California. What allegedly was started by a
campfire destroyed a whole city and claimed hundreds of lives. People burnt to death driving to escape in their cars, like something from the Twilight zone. The images were shocking, similar to those of Armageddon depicted in horror movies I witnessed as a child."
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