[78-L] big Hawaii storm

[Darrell Lehman]

When I heard 49 of the 50 states had snow I was sure you were home free 
- seems like Florida beat you out - sorry- we had a couple inches in 
Seattle - freaked out the city but it was rained away in 12-18 hours!

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> 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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