[78-L] big Hawaii storm

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Is this the kind of storm that reaches the west coast of the mainland as a  
"pineapple express"?
 
Paul Charosh
 
 
In a message dated 1/13/11 12:52:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
malcolm at 78data.com writes:

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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