The warning can expire. A pier cannot un-break.
Civil Beat published photos Tuesday of Waimea Pier destroyed after Lowellโs wind and surge. That is not a metaphor. It is lumber in the water. A road near Hanapepe took the same beating. Kauai officials told people to stay off the roads and conserve water. Helicopters went up at first light. The damage count is still a helicopter sentence, not a dollar.
About 300 people were in the five listed refuges Tuesday morning: Kalaheo Neighborhood Center, Kapaa Middle, Kilauea Neighborhood Center, Kauai High gym, Waimea Canyon Middle. KIUC still had about nine in 10 households dark, about 3,000 on in Koloa and Eleele. Beth Amaro this morning: restoration today unlikely. Inspect, repair, then restore. Days or weeks was the question she would not fake.
Roads, still: Kuhio Highway near the Hanalei Bridge. Kaumualii Highway in Kekaha. Maluhia Road. Oahu: Farrington Highway closed between Lualualei Naval Road and Hakimo Road early Tuesday, per HDOT via Civil Beat. Tens of thousands on Oahu were out on the Hawaiian Electric map.
Lihue Airport is still the Monday close until the airline says otherwise. Schools and offices were Tuesday. Do not invent a Wednesday reopen.
Downed lines: assume hot. 911 for a hazard. KIUC: 808-246-4300. Do not call just to say the lights died.
What this means for you
If you are on Kauai, stay off closed pavement and off the water. If you have a generator, carbon monoxide is the quiet one. If you are waiting on power, the map โ not a group chat.
Bottom line: pier gone. Three hundred in shelters. Nine in ten still dark. The flag coming down did not turn the lights on.
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