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'MAUI, Hawaii — Natural disasters create a desperate rush to find housing for
people who lost their homes. After Maui's wildfires, that effort got an unusual
boost — from a massive military jet that delivered pop-up homes.
Now the modular units are transforming a grassy 10-acre field into 85 homes,
with housing for around 250 people, according to the Family Life Center, a
social service group working to create the Ohana Hope Village.
The first temporary housing modules arrived less than two weeks after fires hit
Lahaina and other areas, said David Sellers, the principal architect of Hawaii
Off-Grid Architecture and Engineering, a leader in the project.
"I got a picture of them loading on a C-17 and I said, 'Oh wow, this is real.
Yeah, let's hurry up.' And we worked through the night and through the weekend
and came up with this plan," he said.'
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
