[78-L] big Hawaii storm

[buster]

Obviously. How...inconvenient...

On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Must be global warming.
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> From: Don Chichester
> Date: 01/13/11 13:17:33
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] big Hawaii storm
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> A season of extreme weather around the world!
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> Don
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>> 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
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>> 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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