Really Strange Week...

So, as we are in Hurricane season, most of us are somewhat aware of the steps we need to take to be prepare for bad weather...but my life was put on hold for a few hours, when a tiny little stream named Ki'ilae, started flowing again after a few days of heavy rain in South Kona. Afterwards, I found out that my situation wasn't as bad, as many parts of Kailua-Kona experienced heavy flooding.

I left the school I teach at a little after 3 PM. And it had been raining for a few hours, with some lightning and thunder. I stopped at the feed store to get feed for my farm animals, and the owner warned me that "it didn't look good" at my side of the island- I'm only about 25 minutes outside Captain Cook center.

I was going to stop at the little grocery store on the way home, quickly feed all the critters, and start grading my students' Scientific Method test and lab, and then finish working on my LTEC 642 Case Study proposal. 
By the time I reached Honaunau, traffic came to a stop. Ki'ilae started flowing again due to the heavy rains up-slope the west side of Mauna Loa, had become large enough to go over the tiny bridge, and was strong enough to send  a large amount of debris towards the south end, covering HWY 11.... But! Country & State Workers were prepared and had heavy equipment ready to clear the road, and by 4:30 PM, one lane was open and traffic slowly started moving again....except our schoolbusses. For some reason, they decided that they could wait any more and took our students back to school....Very disturbing! I called our principal, he was aware, and the students would probably go to the Cafeteria until parents can pick them up.....but parents were probably stuck in Town (Kailua-Kona) as the flooding there was even worse...

So, when I finally got home, I did my farm chores, started dinner, and just never did any school work...hence, it's Sunday evening, and I'm doing 4 things at a time to get "all my own school stuff" done.....Good thing tomorrow is Labor Day...hope it rains....so I don't have to do farm chores and grade my students' work...

Ah, the joys of multi-tasking.....