It has been an interesting and eye-opening week on the island of Maui. You see I live in Kihei, Maui, where it almost never rains. In fact the weather hardly ever changes. So this past week we had our first big Kona Storm in years. It rained for a week. And I'm not talking about the normal Kihei rains either. This was not the normal "Kihei Mist" that we get. This was a downpour for a week. This was, "Raining cats and dogs." This was monsoon weather. The roads were flooded, cars were floating in the streets, trees were knocked over. I saw one tree that crushed a car on South Kihei Road. We lost power for 2 days. Which may not seem that bad, but on an island it can be rough. Everything was closed. I was lucky to find food. I lived on pre-made sandwiches for 2 days. (Not my ideal diet.) Communication with my workplace was difficult to say the least. No one was answering their phones, reception was bad, it was a logistical nightmare.
The entire thing made me wonder, what is going to happen if we got a real storm, and actual hurricane?This one was bad, but nowhere near what a hurricane could do. What would we do then???
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