Hurricane season 2016

[Wao nahele kane]

One of the interesting things I've noticed, when watching the radar imaging during the approach of our storms, is, that as soon as the VOG bank is pulled into the storm, the storm begins to act eradic, loses a great deal of force and tends to shift South rapidly, seemingly with a jumping about, destabelized center.

[terracore]

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Originally posted by MarkP

I got only a little more than 4" yesterday and another .14" early this morning. Call it 4.5" total from Darby. That's here in Eden Roc. Maximum wind gust recorded was 25 mph. Not complaining but that was anticlimactic.

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Well put!

[dayna]

I consider this a good "test" run for our farm. I like to prepare and everything went smoothly. So if there had been a really bad storm I know we're fully prepared.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

[pahoated]

This map is all the hurricanes and tropical storms from the 2015 season superimposed together. Scientists are still baffled. Hawaiian legends described it over a thousand years ago.

http://wxshift.com/uploads/img-news/11_1...ricane.jpg

*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*

[Kenney]

Mahalo PT. That is amazing.

[Chunkster]

Has anyone seen what the highest recorded Big Island wind speed was with Darby? None of the reports I've read have given it.

[Jeffhale]

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Originally posted by Chunkster

Has anyone seen what the highest recorded Big Island wind speed was with Darby? None of the reports I've read have given it.

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This will only be visible for another day or so, but, you can see it Approaching South side @ 60 then slamming into Mauna Loa which knocked the wind out of it to 40.

https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/e...?map=radar

[Chunkster]

Thanks, Jeff, but I was hoping for on the ground weather station readings, both official and unofficial.

Edited to add: hawaiinewsnow.com reports that Kohala Ranch had sustained winds of 43 mph with gusts to 61. I wonder why no one is reporting Hilo side numbers?

[pahoated]

I am thankful it was just a tropical storm and it did the zig-zag before coming ashore so it was a glancing blow, at least to Puna. There were a few gusts there from the south that were bending the ohia trees almost 90 degrees so it was exciting enough. There are a couple more tropical storms developing, just have to wait and see what they do.
http://maps.wunderground.com/data/640x48...r_anim.gif

*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*

[terracore]

Today I surveyed our farm to assess the damage from Darby.

I paused... and saw one denuded HPM electrical conduit tarp frame, it's shiny silver tarp having been carefully removed and stowed on Friday.

Although exhausted from other endeavors I gazed at the galvanized skeleton, pumped my fist towards the sky and proclaimed, "We will rebuild!"

I wasn't going to let some second-class disappointment of a tropical storm put a damper on the human spirit. I removed the tarp, and the tarp balls from our shipping container and REBUILT the Puna beauty back to it's former glory.

No, it wasn't easy. There weren't enough tarp balls. I had to summon my inner MacGyver and substitute cable ties. Some of the cable ties weren't long enough! I had hit the cable tie wall. Then it dawned on me that I could daisy chain multiple cable ties together to make one long cable tie... It was the stuff of legends.

It might be wonky. It might be ugly. It might even be unsafe. But damnit, it's there. Protecting our used cars from the irritating drizzle falling from the same sky that Darby failed to conjure any legacy.

In the eternal struggle of Man versus nature...today... Man won.