Sunday, February 03, 2008
Rain update
So, I waited an extra day after the last post. When Wednesday had come and gone and it hadn't rained, again, I got up the next morning, refusing to let the building clouds deter me, and watered. An hour later, it rained; 4/10ths of an inch. However, that was not the end of it. Appearently all of my begging to Lono and Kane did not go unanswered as the windward side of the island got rain for 4 days. Volleyball was almost completely rained out for the first time in over two years, although we were still there, playing at each break in the torrent.Tolver and I left volleyball early, and its a good thing that we did. One minute later and we would have been stopped by the road closure (due to flooding) at Kawa flats (about three-quarters of the way home.) We zoomed past the policemen who were just about to set up the barricade, and we took our chances and drove through the rising waters. On the other side, we had to wait for the policeman to move the barricade to let us out of the flood zone. He was quite surprised that we had made it through.
It had poured down rain on us the whole way home; 90 miles across the southern part of the island. We saw raging rivers, and lakes that had never existed before. Yet, when we turned in to Ocean View, it was dry! While the rest of the island was drowning, our rain gauge had accummulated only another 2/10ths of an inch. link | posted by Reese at 10:09 AM
