Same here. Your chunk of island did take the full hit of the storm.

Wind and rain is never predictable.

Glad to hear JULIO is going north and into the open Pacific.

Thank you both for the kind words and yes one storm was enough. We will be cleaning up for months

River

See !

Read Above !

Moi knew River was and just deliciously inconvenience

I feel River's inconvenience.

We had 2 scheduled outages last week beginning at 10 PM for about four hours.

My natural gas generator was so noisy. And it took forty five seconds for the big screen to come back on but, the cable box had to reprogram the guide. Who needs these inconveniences, right ?

Moi

See !

moi621 (imported) wrote: Mon Aug 11, 2014 11:28 pm Read Above !

Moi knew River was and just deliciously inconvenience

I feel River's inconvenience.

We had 2 scheduled outages last week beginning at 10 PM for about four hours.

My natural gas generator was so noisy. And it took forty five seconds for the big screen to come back on but, the cable box had to reprogram the guide. Who needs these inconveniences, right ?

Moi

Poor moi,

One of the true joys of living in one of the last frontiers is not needing a TV for internment.

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:29 am Poor moi,

One of the true joys of living in one of the last frontiers is not needing a TV for internment.

River

Have you found your way out of the muck and fallen trees and after storm delights. Oh my !

Got Power

Have the Hawai'ians discovered that furious weather deities that tracked you

from Wisconsin to their Island ?

It's all River's fault. Do they know yet? And have they promised you to Pele yet?

It's just La La land here. Comfy, cozy atmosphere.

The kind of air Easterners complain make California such a cultural desert compared to their beloved snow bound lands.

Yet they chose to live here and complain.

Moi

Life on the big island is as always wonderful, power or no power maters not. In the subdivision I live in there has been a party every night sense the storm.

Moi here we check on our neighbors but more than that its the two guys that have portable generators that lent them out to a member of the association who is hooking them up two hours at a time too people's homes so they can keep there frig going and take a shower and flush the toilet.

Mio its Aloha and we have the most perfect weather.

River

Yo Riv !

How does the reconstruction go ?

Restored to pre Hurricane inconveniences ?

moi621 (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:01 pm Yo Riv !

How does the reconstruction go ?

Restored to pre Hurricane inconveniences ?

Moi, the cleanup will be finished when it will be finished.

Saturday about 6pm the electricity came back on however I was still at my friends house. I found out Sunday morning at church so in the afternoon I spent a couple hours cleaning the frig, cleaning, putting things back outside that I had brought in for the storm. Today I finally got internet back up and running, so everything is back to almost normal. Almost meaning that I still lost a great amount of food and they are still working putting up lines for those last few homes that are still without power.

On the Big Island we caught the front and blunt of the storm, it ripped up trees and twisted off power polls about half way up/down the poll. Sometimes it took out 5 or 6 polls in a row, leaving wire on the ground, trees blocked roads all over this end of the island.

People went out door to door to check on neighbors, people with chain saws went out to clear roads, Business provided food water and Ice to those without. The Aloha feeling was all over this part of the island,

and

What did we do last night after our first fill day with power in 10 days? we had a party, people brought their favorite dish, people played the drums, danced, not a block party but a subdivision party. Everybody was just happy things can go back to normal.

It will be a few more days before I get all the outside trees, shrubs, trash cleaned up and taken to the dump, a couple days to clean the inside of the house. By the end of the week I think everything will finally be back to almost normal. The frig is still empty.

Side note:

Looting was almost none existent, however these two guys went on a property to steal a generator, the owner saw them as he was at the back of his property, as the truck was leaving a tree that the owner had not gotten to yet finally fell, right on top of the truck. Yes there is justice.

Another guy who lives very remote pulled a gun on the power company guys saying that it was private property and he would shoot trespassers. The cops went out and he shot at them, so they called the National Guard, now he has a new room with electricity and running water which I will guess he will have for several years.

River

http://news.yahoo.com/hawaii-volcano-la ... 12729.html

Hawaii volcano lava flow could threaten homes

August 25, 2014 7:30 PM

The June 27 lava flow, named for the date it began erupting from a new vent, isn't an immediate threat to homes or structures downhill of the flow, but could become one in weeks or months if it continues to advance, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The Kilauea volcano has been continuously erupting since 1983, but new vents — or points where lava reaches the surface — have opened up periodically.

Hey, River. Life on Hawai'i seems like the attitude of Roseanne Roseannadana.

"If it's not one thing it's another."

Stay on the high ground. Have a long stick for those marshmallows.

Think of the Star Wars battle scene on lava.

Report as you can, lava granting.

Moi

Hi to Pele for me.