and you still have services and all you need? Hmmm, sign me up? hhh
HHH. A boy can always dream! At least in our situation, the common wisdom from various authorities is that if all the buildings burn, so will the power lines, transformers, control buildings for the sewer and water... so you'll need to settle in without services for a quite a while I think.
I'm not sure what's happening on that score in Maui. I guess it depends on how the services are being delivered and whether all those control structures are inside or outside the burn area. Our situation is a bit unique in that aside from electricity, we're more or less self-contained for water and sewer. And since the electrical infrastructure basically comes up a similar line to the water infrastructure, the general wisdom is that if the water goes, the electric will too and the whole lot of it would probably take a couple years to replace. Maybe more depending on financing. Over a decade to get the houses back.
My personal opinion is that if we experience a 90% loss, the government should buy out the remaining people and shut the place down. If we knew in the 1960s what we know now, this community would never have been allowed to build here. Idiotic place to build a home, but I was 94.56% ignorant of all that when I bought here and, so far so good.
BTW, have any of you ever walked through a large burn area within a few weeks of a major fire? It's fascinating, a bit dangerous (sink holes of ash and coals, weakened timber) and has an eery stark beauty to it. If you get the chance, you should. The recovery is surprisingly fast. They become quite pleasant and just loaded with wildflowers sometimes the very next spring, though typically a year or two after that if it was a very hot burn.
But honestly those are not places you want to spend a week unless you really do enjoy post-apocalyptic fantasies.
