Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/floods/hawaii-worst-flooding-in-20-years-rcna264573

by geox • 4 months ago

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tadfisher• 4 months ago

I was in Oahu last week in a place that experienced 10 inches of rainfall in one day. I had never been in a situation where stepping outside felt like turning on a shower.

YZF• 4 months ago

Hawaii gets a lot of rain. IIRC there are some places that are amongst the highest rainfall anywhere. I experienced a flash flood on Maui near Hana. We were hiking there with no rain when we started and turned into torrential rain. Quite an experience. The campground turned into a swamp with knee high water.

storus• 4 months ago

Regular thing in Hilo or Waiʻaleʻale.

magicalhippo• 4 months ago

We stayed on the Kona side of the Big Island, but took a day trip to Hilo. Such a weird experience, going from dry barren landscape to a lush rain forest in an hour or so.

huijzer3• 4 months ago

Hawaii again? I hope it’s not too bad for the non-zuckerbergs

phainopepla22• 4 months ago

Are there people out there with Zuckerberg derangement syndrome, who can't hear about something only distantly related without bringing him up?

Kauai, where Zuckerberg's estate is, has not been affected. So yes, it's been bad for non-Zuckerbergs

GorbachevyChase2• 4 months ago

I mean, he did sue a bunch of poor people to remove any possibility that they might make ancestral claims on or around his super abundance of land. It is in really bad taste and a testament to his lack of character.

huijzer3• 4 months ago

Why are you defending the billionaire?

longislandguido• 4 months ago

Is it me or is infrastructure in Hawaii in general really terrible and falling apart? Much more so than the mainland.

semicolon_storm• 4 months ago

Everything's more costly in Hawaii, including maintaining infrastructure

GunnarHolwerda• 4 months ago

This is true we work with emergency management in Hawaii. Look up the Jones Act. All shipped goods end up having to hit the mainland before going to Hawaii which is a major contributor to increased costs of goods there.

GorbachevyChase2• 4 months ago

Well, this is not directly related to department of transportation is surprisingly helpful when it comes to providing information. Some states have absurd policies like a pseudo classification system for public projects like bridges as if the construction plans would tell you anything you couldn’t have seen with your own eyes or the bad guys are looking at rebar diagrams to find weak points. It’s just silly. HDOT on the other hand is quite laid-back. My assumption is that it’s because everyone is happy just living in a tropical paradise.

PearlRiver• 4 months ago

All I know is that places like RoK, Taiwan and Japan get typhoons every year and pretty much the only thing that happens is that flights are cancelled.

ilamont• 4 months ago

Not so in Taiwan’s east coast and rift valley, and sometimes in the lowlands. Regular road and rail washouts and sometimes whole bridges wash away. Southern cross island highway was closed for years the last time I visited the area.

raziel2701• 4 months ago

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Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations

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