LIHU‘E — The parking lot was full at Borders Books Music & Cafe, as if it were a rainy weekend day instead of a soggy Friday midday. The lights flickered just once at Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School in Puhi, where
LIHU‘E — The parking lot was full at Borders Books Music & Cafe, as if it were a rainy weekend day instead of a soggy Friday midday.
The lights flickered just once at Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School in Puhi, where all of the professionals scheduled to speak at career-day festivities made it through the rain and wind to appear.
One of the students mentioned that his Wailua yard had an inch of rain as a result of the overnight downpour.
Several bowling-ball-sized boulders fell off the cliff near Nawiliwili Harbor, but didn’t manage to make it onto Wa‘apa Road.
Except for the brown water, wind and rain, things appeared normal at Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kittiwake was out on routine patrol.
A lone fisherman was having no luck at all casting into the Hule‘ia River, and soon gave up. “No,” he said with a soggy smile, when asked if he could catch fish in weather like Friday’s.
Work continued, though in something like slow motion with the wet, windy weather, on the loading and unloading of two barges tied up at Pier 2 and Pier 3.
Brown water was the norm, as far up Hule‘ia Stream as could be viewed, and into Nawiliwili Harbor and Kalapaki Bay, past Ninini Point lighthouse and out into the open ocean.
The access road to the old Club Jetty location was closed Friday midday, as a precaution against vehicles getting caught by surges coming over the breakwater. Normally, the road is gated overnight on weekends to keep those partying off the jetty.
Rice Street on the early Friday afternoon turned into a parking lot at times, with even the center lanes where parking is never allowed flowing like molasses if they moved at all.
In Waimea, Panako Road and Waimea Road were both underwater at times, the Westside’s red dirt coloring the roads to the point where double-yellow lines were invisible.
It was a great day to own a work-at-home business, said Katie Beer of Kt Productions, a video-production company situated in her Kalaheo house.
Despite the high-wind watches and warnings, though, yesterday midday was extremely calm, though wet, in Kalaheo, she said.
“It’s a nice day to be in the house,” said Beer, who had not scheduled any outside shoots Friday.
Thursday night and early Friday morning, when lightning and thunder were the norm with the high winds and heavy rains, her dog Angel spent time in the safety of the shower stall.
The lightning and thunder freaked her four-legged friend, Beer said.
Still, Friday was a nice day to be your own boss, have a home business and be working at home, stay in your pajamas all day, and stay “warm and dry,” she said.
Associate Editor Paul C. Curtis may be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 224) or mailto:pcurtis@pulitzer.net.
