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Thanks to EVERYONE at and working with Well Done, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and of course at Inside Climate News — especially for the Sunday morning front page lede. Lots of pictures, lots of information and lots of hard work on site by all involved in sweltering temperatures and working hard using every environmental precaution to once and for all shut abandoned oil and gas wells in the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge.

The oil and gas industry’s legacy of fobbing off problems on the public coffers has been remediated some, at least in the abandoned and orphaned well arena, but it continues. More to come on this story for sure. And look carefully at what the workover rig crew does; there is no demonizing the O&G industry without understanding the difficulty of their labor and their economic need to do it. Like most stories today, this is a complicated one and as is the point of “Managing Consent,” shortening coverage is inherently throwing it in a conservative direction by eliding a story’s complexity. ICN’s running of features like this is a pushback on that in a media landscape in deep trouble as everything becomes distilled into neat blacks and whites.

#oilindustry #ecology #environmentalhygiene #zumapress

The last Kona low that hit proved to not be more than an ordinary heavy winter rain on O`ahu and we are all grateful even as more rain and nuisance flooding affects those who were already affected by the previous storms.

Here a heavy equipment operator watches the level of Kaukonahua Stream rise on Friday, April 11. The stream overflowed its banks March 20, floating buildings off their foundations and damaging the historic Otake Store, a plantation era general store and local landmark. March rainfall on O`ahu reached as high as a 52” extreme and rainfall amounts exceeded what would be expected in a 1,000 year storm.

Though not global warming-caused these storms appear likely to have come in wetter than without warming’s effects.

I managed to submerge three cameras and four lenses, and everything else I was carrying below my chest, out in the worst of it last month. Testament to @fujifilmx_us and its pro equipment my cameras kept working after the swamping — even as I poured water out of battery and SD card compartments. My digital recorder didn’t fare so well.

#oahu #hawaii #photojournalism #konalow #globalwarming #zumapress #fujicamerassuretakelumps

The last Kona low that hit proved to not be more than an ordinary heavy winter rain on O`ahu and we are all grateful even as more rain and nuisance flooding affects those who were already affected by the previous storms.

Here a heavy equipment operator watches the level of Kaukonahua Stream rise on Friday, April 11. The stream overflowed its banks March 20, floating buildings off their foundations and damaging the historic Otake Store, a plantation era general store and local landmark. March rainfall on O`ahu reached as high as a 52” extreme and rainfall amounts exceeded what would be expected in a 1,000 year storm.

Though not global warming-caused these storms appear likely to have come in wetter than without warming’s effects.

I managed to submerge three cameras and four lenses, and everything else I was carrying below my chest, out in the worst of it last month. Testament to @fujifilmx_us and its pro equipment my cameras kept working after the swamping — even as I poured water out of battery and SD card compartments. My digital recorder didn’t fare so well.

#oahu #hawaii #photojournalism #konalow #globalwarming #zumapress #fujicamerassuretakelumps

In a break from storm clean up at home, filing deadlines and reporting we met these folks this weekend, part of a developing profile of the threatened reef I grew up on and have known for more decades than I’ll admit here.

#akule #reef #globalwarming #fisheries #pacificislands #zumapress

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

Conditions last Friday in Waialua and Haleiwa were not easy to face. As far as I know @mengshinlin, assigned by @apnews, and I (@zumapress and @insideclimatenews) were the only journalists actually in the flood zone in those first 24 hours — me thanks to my own hip waders and a borrowed jeep. The damage from a second powerful Kona storm in a week will be felt for decades, some residents on Oahu will not recover the lives they lived prior to last Friday.

This is not normal but another climate-influenced local weather disaster occurring as unprecedented wildfires burn in Nebraska, the West Coast sees record high temperatures, and rivers in the NW flood with abrupt snow melt. As I write this it is still raining. Today there was a tremendous downpour that increased flooding in urban Honolulu, at least.

At home we have been without power since Friday night, are battling regular nuisance flooding, and are living by the good graces of our neighbors. We are all on earth living by the good graces of our neighbors, whether we care to understand that or not. Hawaii is demonstrating this, again under duress, with hundreds of volunteers shoveling mud, organizing basic necessities for those who have lost everything, and taking in family and friends with nowhere to go. Whether the federal government and FEMA will aid people here is still, to my understanding, an open question. There is precedent in this administration for slow-walking disaster aid, especially in blue states.

Be safe if you are affected by this winter’s disasters where every you might be, and — as many times as I have written this — this is our new normal which can only be dialed back by curtailing greenhouse gas pollution caused by burning fossil fuels. Regardless of what politicians and entrenched oil and gas interests say, we are facing a climate crisis, not a “climate hoax,” as such we have entered a new era of necessary mutual aid and interdependence. Living under this administration’s willful climate ignorance is crazy-making and dangerous. And physics always prevails.

#zumapress #climatedisaster #hawaii #oahu #northshoreoahu

It’s been a while since I’ve flogged “Uncertainty Today” here. Today’s story there is important for its personalization of the present issue of the Trump administration’s often illegal deportation actions. Read it here: tinyurl.com/thoreau-deportation thanks to the wonder of URL shorteners. Please share it, the moral questions it raises have plagued us since Thoreau’s time.

#immigration #thoreau #citizens #moralvalues #moralresistance #losangelas #photojournalism #reporting #journalism #zumapress

I’m going to just let this live here, since the stories disappear.

In the face of repression — joy in music and dance. This is a miserable story to report but the strength of community here in L.A. gives hope.

It’s an important lesson.

#lamusicfestival #immigration #losangeles #unitehere @losjornalerosdelnorte

As our hearts break for Bingin Beach, Bali and beyond, J. Matt (@tinyshocks) helps us to look inward at ourselves and outward at the system we have created in their op-ed “Loved to Death,” in Issue 08, with photo by @michaelarabinov.

Of which mind(s) are you? How deep can our awareness go together as surfers?

Link in bio to subscribe and take a first step towards a new world together.

As our hearts break for Bingin Beach, Bali and beyond, J. Matt (@tinyshocks) helps us to look inward at ourselves and outward at the system we have created in their op-ed “Loved to Death,” in Issue 08, with photo by @michaelarabinov.

Of which mind(s) are you? How deep can our awareness go together as surfers?

Link in bio to subscribe and take a first step towards a new world together.

As we watch the demolition at Bingin Cliff, Bali, as well as ecological disasters at other surf breaks worldwide, we can look to J. Matt’s (@tinyshocks) op-ed in Issue 08 for an assessment of climate change, ecological damage, and creative ways forward together.

Subscribe now to Issue 08–the Infinite—to read the full essay. Photos by @soraya.simi and @zissou_.

As we watch the demolition at Bingin Cliff, Bali, as well as ecological disasters at other surf breaks worldwide, we can look to J. Matt’s (@tinyshocks) op-ed in Issue 08 for an assessment of climate change, ecological damage, and creative ways forward together.

Subscribe now to Issue 08–the Infinite—to read the full essay. Photos by @soraya.simi and @zissou_.

As we watch the demolition at Bingin Cliff, Bali, as well as ecological disasters at other surf breaks worldwide, we can look to J. Matt’s (@tinyshocks) op-ed in Issue 08 for an assessment of climate change, ecological damage, and creative ways forward together.

Subscribe now to Issue 08–the Infinite—to read the full essay. Photos by @soraya.simi and @zissou_.

As we watch the demolition at Bingin Cliff, Bali, as well as ecological disasters at other surf breaks worldwide, we can look to J. Matt’s (@tinyshocks) op-ed in Issue 08 for an assessment of climate change, ecological damage, and creative ways forward together.

Subscribe now to Issue 08–the Infinite—to read the full essay. Photos by @soraya.simi and @zissou_.

As we watch the demolition at Bingin Cliff, Bali, as well as ecological disasters at other surf breaks worldwide, we can look to J. Matt’s (@tinyshocks) op-ed in Issue 08 for an assessment of climate change, ecological damage, and creative ways forward together.

Subscribe now to Issue 08–the Infinite—to read the full essay. Photos by @soraya.simi and @zissou_.

The new issue of @emocean.surf is moving through the mail and showing up in surf shops — and in it I have thrown a bomb. I have been conveying myself towards shore, by one means or another, under wave power for half a century. Riding prone on a variety of craft, standing on boards I have shaped and shaped by others, and often enough with only a pair of fins has formed and saved my life.

I am tremendously lucky to be from Honolulu and to have had the experiences I’ve known surfing, traveling to surf, and more generally being present on the coast of continents and islands surfing, fishing, or gathering abalone offshore. But as aspects of the life I’ve been lucky enough to have lead become increasingly commodified and marketed to a much wider group than the relatively small numbers of those who lived ocean-centered, or even adjacent, lives from the 1970s until about the time of the release of the movie ‘Blue Crush’ the beachside communities host to places to surf are increasingly deliteriously impacted, socially and environmentally.

I’m calling for a hard look at surfing’s nettlesome, dangerous consequences, from my POV as an environmentalist, committed member of @sejournalists, and resident of Hawai‘i; a place so sold out my elementary school Boogie Boarding self might hardly recognize it. Every bit of our human consequence needs examination in the age of climate crisis. Even surfing.

Buy an issue of Emocean, it is a BEAUTIFUL magazine.

#environmentaljournalism #overtourism #consequences #surfing #surfinglife #lovetodeath #weneedtofiguresomeshitout

For the first time I took a camera into the ocean with me, to photograph a reef system I have been haunting for the better part of a half a century. There is much room for improvement, read some about the reef and what I learned about a camera underwater at “Uncertainty Today,” there’s a link in the bio, of course, and it’s the one with a lead photo of — wait for it — FISH! Subscribe, even if just to see its pictures with regularity. With all apologies to @waynelevinimages — I just didn’t have the patience for color.

#tinyshocks #zumapress #hawaii #reef #hawaii #honolulu #blackandwhitephotography #underwaterphotography

For the first time I took a camera into the ocean with me, to photograph a reef system I have been haunting for the better part of a half a century. There is much room for improvement, read some about the reef and what I learned about a camera underwater at “Uncertainty Today,” there’s a link in the bio, of course, and it’s the one with a lead photo of — wait for it — FISH! Subscribe, even if just to see its pictures with regularity. With all apologies to @waynelevinimages — I just didn’t have the patience for color.

#tinyshocks #zumapress #hawaii #reef #hawaii #honolulu #blackandwhitephotography #underwaterphotography

For the first time I took a camera into the ocean with me, to photograph a reef system I have been haunting for the better part of a half a century. There is much room for improvement, read some about the reef and what I learned about a camera underwater at “Uncertainty Today,” there’s a link in the bio, of course, and it’s the one with a lead photo of — wait for it — FISH! Subscribe, even if just to see its pictures with regularity. With all apologies to @waynelevinimages — I just didn’t have the patience for color.

#tinyshocks #zumapress #hawaii #reef #hawaii #honolulu #blackandwhitephotography #underwaterphotography

For the first time I took a camera into the ocean with me, to photograph a reef system I have been haunting for the better part of a half a century. There is much room for improvement, read some about the reef and what I learned about a camera underwater at “Uncertainty Today,” there’s a link in the bio, of course, and it’s the one with a lead photo of — wait for it — FISH! Subscribe, even if just to see its pictures with regularity. With all apologies to @waynelevinimages — I just didn’t have the patience for color.

#tinyshocks #zumapress #hawaii #reef #hawaii #honolulu #blackandwhitephotography #underwaterphotography

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Like in the other 48 there was a protest here on Presidents’ Day. Woefully under-reported in the press this is some of what it looked like in Honolulu where public national protest is not particularly ordinary. Attendance, given that, was surprisingly high. It was peaceable, not surprising here, and participants looked quite different from most places across the country. This is what we look like here.

Aloha encompasses much, but never hate or vengeance.

#luckyyoulivehawaii #protest #politicalprotest #diversity #honolulu #hawaii #zumapress

Happy Christmas from our Dear Leader!

In the next four years, should we invade Canada, Greenland, or Panama, I will become a conflict photographer and reporter — something I have no desire to do and which I assured my parents that I would never consider.

I will do so to report from the point of view of the Canadians, Greenlanders, Danes, and Panamanians defending their sovereignty against an aggressor no better than VladimirPutin’s Russia. By all means feel free to hold me to this.

#soveriegnty #isreal #insanity #sucks #andawaywego

Happy Christmas from our Dear Leader!

In the next four years, should we invade Canada, Greenland, or Panama, I will become a conflict photographer and reporter — something I have no desire to do and which I assured my parents that I would never consider.

I will do so to report from the point of view of the Canadians, Greenlanders, Danes, and Panamanians defending their sovereignty against an aggressor no better than VladimirPutin’s Russia. By all means feel free to hold me to this.

#soveriegnty #isreal #insanity #sucks #andawaywego