Originally Posted by
hailstorm
Even in unaffected areas like Tokyo, people did not want to be seen enjoying themselves when so many people were going through such a hard time.
If you said that about Kauai, the narrative would have been somewhat easier to swallow. Puna on the Big Island doesn't exactly evoke warm and fuzzy feelings amongst most people in the islands, its a mix of mainland transplants, hippies, and even the locals there can be described as extremely cheap people who *choose* to live somewhere where this happened multiple times in modern history...