Nearly two inches of rain fell on parts of Kaua’i on Mother’s Day, creating rivers of brown water over roadways and major potholes but resulting in no serious accidents, injuries or power outages. Rain fell off and on Monday, sometimes
Nearly two inches of rain fell on parts of Kaua’i on Mother’s Day, creating rivers of brown water over roadways and major potholes but resulting in no serious accidents, injuries or power outages.
Rain fell off and on Monday, sometimes heavily, as road crews scrambled to make repairs to state and county streets and highways, and the forecast for today through the end of this weekend is for partly cloudy conditions with isolated windward and mauka showers.
East winds 10 to 20 miles per hour will prevent the next few days from exhibiting tradewind-weather traits.
For the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. yesterday morning, 1.97 inches of rain fell at ‘Oma’o, 1.84 inches at Wailua, and 1.14 inches at Lihu’e, according to Jeff Fournier, forecaster with the National Weather Service in Honolulu.
South Shore lifeguards were kept busy over the weekend with a large south swell, which yesterday gradually declined to four-foot waves with some eight-foot faces.
On Saturday, May 11, lifeguards made three “assists” of various people who got into trouble from Poipu Beach Park down to the area near the Sheraton Kauai Resort, said lifeguard Kalani Vierra.
A visiting female snorkeler, a local youth who had his body board ripped out from under him, and a surfer unfamiliar with the best way to exit the surf near Sheraton required lifeguard assistance, delivered via personal watercraft, Vierra said.
“It could have been worse,” since this was the first extended, large summer swell of the year, he added.
Staff Writer Paul C. Curtis can be reached at mailto:pcurtis@pulitzer.net or 245-3681 (ext. 224).
