04-24-2015, 10:34 AM
"With the rising of the ocean and at high tide, most of bayfront buildings are currently submerged with at least a foot of water in each structure."
This is entirely false, my office is on the Hilo Bay front and has been for years, I also do business with many downtown businesses and am in and out of them on a regular basis. I have NEVER seen a foot of water in any of those places, even the makai side parking lot, bandshell, playing fields and bus station do not get high tide flooding anything like that. I do see flooding in the soccer fields near the Kamehameha statue when we have days of heavy rain, and at times the Bay front Highway is closed due to high surf, but there is no tidal flooding that puts a foot of water in Bay front businesses.
The rest of the post sounds pretty accurate, but credibility goes out the window when someone makes that kind of blatantly false statement.
This is entirely false, my office is on the Hilo Bay front and has been for years, I also do business with many downtown businesses and am in and out of them on a regular basis. I have NEVER seen a foot of water in any of those places, even the makai side parking lot, bandshell, playing fields and bus station do not get high tide flooding anything like that. I do see flooding in the soccer fields near the Kamehameha statue when we have days of heavy rain, and at times the Bay front Highway is closed due to high surf, but there is no tidal flooding that puts a foot of water in Bay front businesses.
The rest of the post sounds pretty accurate, but credibility goes out the window when someone makes that kind of blatantly false statement.