[78-L] big Hawaii storm

[Don Chichester]

A season of extreme weather around the world!
 
Don
 
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:51:41 -1000
> From: malcolm at 78data.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] big Hawaii storm
> 
> 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
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