BREAKING NEWS ON KAUAI TONIGHT.
DEVASTATING FLOODING AND A FLASH
FLOOD
WARNING IS "STILL" UP, HAS BEEN
SINCE LAST NIGHT.
MANY HOMES ARE DAMAGED, AT LEAST
TWO HOMES "DESTROYED" IN THE
RUSH OF WATER.. KAUA'IS MAYOR
BERNARD CARVALHO HAS SIGNED AN
EMERGENCY PROCLAMATION. KAUA'I'S
NORTH SHORE HAS BEEN HIT
PARTICULARLY HARD SO FAR...27
INCHES OF RAIN FELL ON HANALEI
IN 24 HOURS.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AT ONE
POINT HAD
THREE SHELTERS OPEN ON THE
ISLAND, "TWO" ARE STILL
OPEN...AT HANALEI ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL
WHERE WE'RE TOLD 40 PEOPLE ARE
STAYING AND CHURCH OF THE
PACIFIC IN PRINCEVILLE.
HANALEI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WILL
BE "CLOSED"
TOMORROW...AND SCHOOL BUSSES
WILL NOT BE
OPERATING "OUT" OF HANALEI....
AND THERE ARE POWER OUTAGES FROM
KILAUEA TO LAWAI.
HANALEI HAS SEEN FLASH FLOODING
BEFORE, BUT
THOSE WE SPOKE WITH SAY, NOT
LIKE THIS.
Flooding in Hanalei began
yesterday...but
the worst of the flood waters
hit early sunday morning...
Lyndsey Haraguchi- Nakayama by
phone, Hanalei Taro Co-owner:
it's actually been quite
devastating, this is
one of the largest flash floods
that we've seen in quite a
while. The flash flood water
came up so high so fast ." rvr:
home video: 4-15 kauai flooding
Drowning fields her family has
farmed for five generations,
washed away tractors and
equipment.
Lyndsey Haraguchi- Nakayama by
phone, Hanalei
Taro Co-owner: : "the damage
that we sustained on
this one it's insurmountable and
we're still going through the
process right now ."
rvr: home video: 4-15 kauai
flooding
Kuhio Highway is closed at the
Hanalei Bridge...isolating
entire communities, until the
rain and flood waters subside,
and road crews can clear
landslides that are now too
many to count.
Sam Fernandez, Department of
Transportation: "the flood is
just raging, the water fall
raging, people far in ha'ena are
stuck, stranded."
phoner graphic
Bernard Carvalho, Jr., Kaua'i
Mayor: "We have no
indication of anybody missing or
in any major trouble. We
know of structures that have-
are devasted or land area but no
people right now.."
Mayor Carvalho spoke to us from
Kaua'i's Emergency
Operations Center, activated
yesterday morning. The county is
partnering with state emergency
officials, the
coast guard, army and honolulu
fire department for
search and rescue operations. On
duty and off duty
emergency personnel have been
rescuing and evacuating
people since saturday night.
kauai phoners
Padraic Gallagher, Disaster
Program Manager for Kauai
County: "We're mainly focused
on rescue operations and
responding to everybody who was
in harms
way, getting them out of areas
that are isolated and
flooded and out of harms way
there."
And even with all this water,
kaua'i's department of water
announced an outage, no water
for hanalei, ha'ena, wainiha
with no timeline for having it
restored... as crews can't get
to the area to fix
watermains....customers are
being told to collect rain water
for non-potable needs. Mayor
Carvalho: " Well we're doing a
full on assessment
and response. Assess and respond
as quickly as we
can."
Padraic Gallagher, Disaster
Program Manager for Kauai
County: "There going to be a lot
of people in need in the days
and weeks coming up."
Lyndsey Haraguchi: "family's
first right, so no matter how
hard we got hit, that we're
still alive to live through it."
"Brand new jeep now lawn
ornament."
KATHY:
THIS IS VIDEO FROM KALIHIWAI
VALLEY ON THE NORTH SHORE OF
KAUAI NEAR KILAUEA.
THE YARD OF THIS HOME WAS
FLOODED WITH
SEVERAL FEET OF WATER.
LOW LYING AREAS WERE EVACUATED
AS A
PRECAUTION AFTER THE KALIHIWAI
RESERVOIR
REACHED NEAR CAPACITY.
A RESIDENT WE SPOKE WITH SAYS
THEY'RE USED TO A LOT OF RAIN IN
THE AREA, BUT TODAY'S FLASH
FLOODING WAS SCARY.
By Phone: Kauma Anahata /
Kalihiwai Valley Resident:
"And before we knew it, it was
to the roof of our
vehicles to the top of them. Our
outside building had
been just destroyed. The one
blue jeep, just floated out of
our carport. By then the water
was at least 6 feet high
and it's like a raging river now
and we're up on the stilts of
our bamboo home just getting
scared because
there's no way out at this
point."
KATHY:
AND A VIEWER SENT US THIS VIDEO
FROM KALIHI-
HOLO ROAD IN KILAUEA.
YOU CAN SEE A PORTION OF THE
ROAD WAS
WASHED AWAY CREATING A HUGE
HOLE, DESCRIBED AS HAVING A
50-FOOT DROP.