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3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - Eric1600 - 11-30-2017
Check out the video from downtown
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2017/11/30/video-flooding-closes-hilo-roads-swamping-motorists/
And 3 feet in 72 hours
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36967725/parts-of-big-island-see-3-feet-of-rain-in-72-hour-period
Rainfall totals were highest in the upper slopes of the South Hilo district, where several rain gauges recorded to two to three feet of water in a 72-hour period ending Thursday at 11 a.m.
Saddle Quarry saw a staggering 44 inches over that period, while Hakalau got 27 inches of rain.
Glenwood: 24 inches
Keaumo: 19 inches
Mountain View: 17 inches
Waiakea Uka: 17 inches
Laupahoehoe: 9 inches
Kapapala: 8.4 inches
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 11-30-2017
3 feet a rain in 3 days?
Whaaay, thas what we used to call a pleasant drizzle.
I remember back in aught one, or wait now, was it aught two?
27 inches in 24 hours! Now thas a good rainstorm!
Millenium, millennials... a few years after Y2K and sumptin shifted all out a whack...
“Facts fall from the poetic observer as ripe seeds.” -Henry Thoreau
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - TomK - 11-30-2017
The great storm of 2000. Who here at the time can forget it? Three feet of rain in Pahala in 24-hours. IIRC, no major highway remained open, even 130 was closed due to flooding.
https://youtu.be/4LaHOZXWRo8
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - Kenney - 11-30-2017
Yes, what most people call rain, we call "drip dropping". This has been a bit of real rain.
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - leilaniguy - 11-30-2017
quote:I remember that. About 26 inches of rain in Leilani in one day, water puddled everywhere in the house, even though on 3 foot posts, coming through the walls, windows and screens. They reported 3 feet of water over Rt. 130 at Kipuka farm, (The bridge between HPP and Keaau).
Originally posted by TomK
The great storm of 2000. Who here at the time can forget it? Three feet of rain in Pahala in 24-hours. IIRC, no major highway remained open, even 130 was closed due to flooding.
https://youtu.be/4LaHOZXWRo8
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - TomK - 11-30-2017
The other thing I remember about that event is every TV and radio station was off-air other than one local radio station (I forget which one).
One unfortunate Hilo resident called in live and asked drivers on the road he lived on to please drive a little slower. Every time someone drove by, especially trucks, sent a wave of water crashing into his garage which had already started flooding.
RE: 3 feet of rain in 72 hours and counting - Durian Fiend - 12-01-2017
Looks like the tourist season will coincide with a monsoon this year.
Isn't that swell! Americans don't have to travel all the way to India in order to experience this weather. [
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