[78-L] big Hawaii storm

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Man, Hawaii is getting nailed. If it was snowing I estimate we'd be 
under 236 feet of snow by now!
It's been one long thunderstorm all night long and is continuing on as 
front after front hits the state. I actually managed to get some sleep 
by using earplugs and a wool watch cap pulled down over my eyes, but 
still...
The usually dry stream in the gulch next to my house is running 6 to 8 
feet off the bed and the whole house shudders when an especially large 
surge of water or a batch of boulders rolls down from further upcountry. 
In 25 years of living here I've never see the stream run this high. And 
the rain which began yesterday hasn't let up at all, except sporadically.
The cats are all freaked and my eldest is hiding under the bed, 
something she never does. Won't even come out for food.
Hopefully this part of the storm will cease soon, but the satellite pix 
say probably not for another 5 or 6 hours. We still have water, 
electricity (oddly enough except for a couple of hiccups yesterday 
afternoon there's been no outages) and phone/cable/email and the roads 
over here are still clear, but I don't know about anywhere else.
At least we don't have to boil our water yet. But the electricity is 
flickering now.
I haven't even looked in the record vault yet.
We'll see.
Malcolm