Back in 1982, I remember spending the night by flashlight and waiting for Hurricane Iwa to pass over our house. When the morning came, our mighty mango trees were felled and part of our roof was damaged. A neighbor down the street burnt his house down and someone's roof blew off during the night.
The last hurricane to hit the island was Hurricane Iniki, in 1992. People died and tons of shit got destroyed. So that sucks ass. Hurricanes that come around Hawaii start in one of two places. Directly south near Kiribati or off the coast of Southern Mexico. Most of them seem to travel far to the south and miss the islands, the two that have caused the greatest damage followed the same path but then B-Lined at the last minute up towards Kauai. It's been before my time that a powerful hurricane approached from the direct east and made landfall with the Big Island.
Hurricane Flossie is approaching the Big Island and is expected to hit in the next thirty six hours. Originally expected to be downgraded to a Cat 1, it is not losing strength and is assumed to hit as a Cat 3. Insurance is paid for so I say let her rip. I wonder how much we could get in cold hard cash for catastrophic damage to the house??? "Yeah, we're going to use this to rebuild. . . - NOT" After all 85% of the value is in the land, so gl2HF.
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