06-11-2016, 07:16 AM
Since we are remembering Iselle here.
There are Many reasons why our family will never forget tropical storm iselle beyond the house, property, and fence damage we recieved. The amount of trees that came down was amazing, the only thing more amazing was that nobody died due to those large trees falling " thankfully Iselle didn't arrive at rush hour". Unfortunately lower puna was very unlucky with the timing of this big wind storm because of the soon to be identified Ohia Wilt fungus. The ROD fungus spread like a wild fire throughout lower puna during tropical storm Iselle, because the storm broke or snapped many healthy Ohia branches. One pin hole size scrape or blemish to the ohia tree and the (ROD) will and did take over,jmo.
Tropical storm Iselle also caused the geothermal toxic blowout or Planned release over leilani estates. We had a family member within a half mile of this geothermal blowout need emergency attention that night and subsequently was never well enough to return home again.
We had friends in a state of panic because they couldn't evacuate the subdivision (when advised) due to the amount of trees that had blown down blocking the roadways. Anyway it was a nightmare of a night for us and we feel a lot of the concerns we incurred could have been avoided by shutting down the plant prior to Iselle. The county, helco, and Ormat all made the decisions to keep geothermal operations on full go in order to continue to feed the many Kona tourism resorts with electricity. And now Ormat and the county are lowballing families who have been on this geothermal relocation list years before this past geothermal blowout "planned release". Shame,jmo.
There are Many reasons why our family will never forget tropical storm iselle beyond the house, property, and fence damage we recieved. The amount of trees that came down was amazing, the only thing more amazing was that nobody died due to those large trees falling " thankfully Iselle didn't arrive at rush hour". Unfortunately lower puna was very unlucky with the timing of this big wind storm because of the soon to be identified Ohia Wilt fungus. The ROD fungus spread like a wild fire throughout lower puna during tropical storm Iselle, because the storm broke or snapped many healthy Ohia branches. One pin hole size scrape or blemish to the ohia tree and the (ROD) will and did take over,jmo.
Tropical storm Iselle also caused the geothermal toxic blowout or Planned release over leilani estates. We had a family member within a half mile of this geothermal blowout need emergency attention that night and subsequently was never well enough to return home again.
We had friends in a state of panic because they couldn't evacuate the subdivision (when advised) due to the amount of trees that had blown down blocking the roadways. Anyway it was a nightmare of a night for us and we feel a lot of the concerns we incurred could have been avoided by shutting down the plant prior to Iselle. The county, helco, and Ormat all made the decisions to keep geothermal operations on full go in order to continue to feed the many Kona tourism resorts with electricity. And now Ormat and the county are lowballing families who have been on this geothermal relocation list years before this past geothermal blowout "planned release". Shame,jmo.