This morning, I had a final exam scheduled at 8. When I drove down, it was raining hard, but I didnt realize how hard until I got to school. Several parts of Laie were flooded. Mostly the block contained in Kulanui St, Iosepa St, and Naniloa loop. I saw some men with water up to their chest. Hard to realize since yesterday was warm and sunny, and it didnt start raining hard til about 3 am. I was up til 1:30 doing homework, and it was just windy the whole time. Look what blew in!
I realized that this is a unique experience, so I went back and took these photos. I wasnt in the thick of it like before, but these are some pretty convincing photos. I felt like I was in a third world country. There were chickens on the roof, people cruising in kayaks and on surf boards, cars with water up to the dash, flooded homes, dirty water all over, the works.
Since today and tomorrow are the last day of finals, I dont know what is going to happen. Hopefully we hear soon. Fortunately, I am safe from all of this. I live at the point which is very much elevated from Laie, where all this is happening. My only concern is that my car has a leak I didnt know about and now theres a nice puddle in the drivers side feet area. :)
*********Update!
Well, I spent about 5 hours yesterday vaccuming water from my Jeep. I pulled about 5 gallons of brown, dirty, rusted water from that thing!
Last night around 6 it started pouring again. Dolly and I were going to try and do some shopping in Kaneohe, but the road was shut down because a power line came down in the road and was bouncing around in the rain....not good. So we came home, which was probably the best choice anyway. At that point the rain was coming down so hard that even with my wipers at high speed I still could hardly see. The roads were covered with water and the brakes would be wet requiring a purge every once in a while. Not ideal conditions for the Kamehemeha Hwy.
So, we went and got dinner at the Foodland shopping center. When we walked out of Subway, it was pouring rain. We were talking to someone when, BOOM!!! Lightning struck about 30 feet away around the corner. Instantly, everything went dark, almost in a wave. You could the dark expanding around us. It was pitch black, which was eerie after such a stunning flash of light and an earsplitting explosion sound. Car alarms were going off all over the place. This weather has created some crazy experiences. Unfortunately, many homes were flooded and people are living at one of the school buildings which doubles as a shelter.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
The FLOOD! Where's Noah when you need him?
Posted by Devin at 10:00 AM
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Wow! That looks crazy!
Devin, thanks for posting these. I heard about the flood a little while ago, and wondered just how bad it was. Pretty bad, from what I can see.
I lived through two of these while in La'ie - Once in (I think) '82, and again in '91. Those were bad, but this one almost looks worse.
You're lucky to live on the point. Having the water come in the house and watch your belongings float around is not a whole lot of fun.
Post more if you get the chance.
I'll try to get down there again. Unfortunately I have a professor still demanding that I write a research paper and actually moved the time its due FORWARD! I really want to help out, it looks pretty bad over there.
I cant believe it floods so bad here. I cant believe you went through two. Were you living down lower?
There was a flood a few years ago that people recall as the 40 days of rain. Most have said this is worse, probably because it was so sudden!
I lived on the little dead-end Puuahi St in '82, (behind the Temple Beach parking lot) and the water got up to our back porch but didn't come any higher. We had some friends behind the elementary school who had about a foot of water in their house.
In '91, we were in TVA - building R, closest to the temple. It's significantly lower than the rest of TVA, and we had a couple of feet come in.
I thought we were doing pretty good with sandbags and bailing water as it came in, but when it started seeping in between the foundation and the wall, I knew we had lost the battle.
Good luck on your paper and finals. And don't worry - there will still be plenty of work to do for several weeks.
I can't believe that there!! Its pretty cool that you got to be there and see that.. poor jeep though :(
We actually aren't able to come sat because I work all day, im really sad because I can't wait to see you and meet dolly! but we will for sure be there christmas day.. its snowing quite a bit here.. so it should be interesting for dolly!
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