Maui is currently flooding with helicopter rescues, I used to live on this street - eviltoast

https://youtu.be/-94Ebr019pM?si=qnpBYxmmgbDfrlDi

https://youtu.be/QXE358WewnQ?si=ReXKtdGvn87OCaq2

These videos were from 4 hours ago and there’s still torrential rain now.

edit: in case anyone is wondering, no, I am not mattweiss

edit: so this is how it’s been going… it rained most of last night, started the morning with flood warnings until 8:30am, then was revised to 11:30am, then again until 7:15pm. It is currently 7:22p, and no end in sight yet.

Part of the problem is a phenomenon called “training”, where instead of storms just passing through, they’ll get stuck on the mountain and will pass over the same areas multiple times like a train on tracks. You just have to hope something eventually changes to blow itself off and away from the track.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_(meteorology)

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comOP
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    10 months ago

    The wind has been going hard, rain has been coming down almost sideways for a good portion of today. I haven’t seen reports yet, but if it keeps up like this we’ll probably have more road closures upcountry from uprooted trees and maybe mud slides overnight.

    edit: almost on cue, the water just turned on high again

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      10 months ago

      Yeah it was like someone left the hose on here. Heavy rain. Broke part of the concrete for my wooden gate (which like a dummy, I left closed when I should have opened it Facepalm )

      My weather station hit 3 inches per hour when it was raging.

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        10 months ago

        Open hose sounds about right. I don’t know if we’ve hit 3” per hour yet or not, I think it was at 2” or a little over a couple of times. It sounds like it’s slowing down now but it’s been doing that all day. You think it’s about done and then it comes around for another pass.