LIHUE — The National Weather Service said Wednesday that Hurricane Norman is about 385 miles east of Hilo and 570 miles east of Honolulu. The category 3 storm is expected to make a northwest trajectory that will bring it east of the Hawaiian Islands.
LIHUE — The National Weather Service said Wednesday that Hurricane Norman is about 385 miles east of Hilo and 570 miles east of Honolulu. The category 3 storm is expected to make a northwest trajectory that will bring it east of the Hawaiian Islands.
“There’s a low possibility the islands will experience inclement weather as a result of Hurricane Norman, but there is currently a high surf warning out for all of the islands through Friday,” said NWS Meteorologist Vanessa Almanza.
Depending on what Norman does, it could bring light winds and muggy conditions for Kauai throughout the weekend, she said.
Hurricane Olivia hasn’t reached the Central Pacific Basin yet, she said, but the storm is excepted to reach the basin sometime Saturday as a tropical storm.
It’s only a matter of time before Oahu gets drilled by a major hurricane and what can FEMA, the City, State and Civil Defense can do or plan after it hits? I asked the then CD director during hurricane Iniki while on Kauai that specific question and he said “we would have to move thousands of displaced residents to the outer islands because the entire power grid, water, sanitation facilities, roads, food will be distrupted for months.
So the question is how do you transport thousands to the outer islands, and setup tents to provide running water, food, sanitation process, power to keep them there until the infrastructure on Oahu is up and running, along with shelters? What if the outer islands are also hit and down?
Maybe Mayor Kirk Chadwell is busy congratulating himself for now, but since he already is siphoning of $billions of taxpayers money into that black hole pit of rail, that leaves nothing to address this problem. So where will the money come from, when many homes will be destroyed that pays property taxes and are no longer fit for human occupation? Ask the outer islands (like Big Island is doing) for another $5billion when they are housing thousands of Oahu residents already?
When Abricombie raided the hurricane insurance fund that left it empty, we still don’t have a replacemtnt