Continuing Saga of Iselle

I'm currently enjoying a break in the wind. I'm sure it'll be back though. But we are getting a fair amount of rain. I'm lucky to be off-grid and still have power. If you believe the news reporter twitter feeds, it sounds like most of this island as well as Maui is in the dark. At least on this section of the grid, it's power related and not pole related, as the DSL is still working.

Had a few nervous moments with the wind earlier. I was even halfway to grabbing Lucy as I yelled a few key expletives at one point. 

But all is better, at least for now. 

It looks like the storm is kind of stalling out just east of South Point, which means the winds are slowing down, but it's also moving slower. So this event will take a bit longer than originally planned. 

The biggest impact this will have is one of rainfall. Granted, we're no strangers to rain on this hill, but from a bigger perspective, this could be a very very big deal. One twitter person posted a graph of the current flow of the Wailuku river. The record flow was (WAS) somewhere above 5,000 cfm. Currently the river is at THREE times that amount. 

The lasting impact of this storm could very well be unbelievable. 

Rain is stopping. Wind coming. More later.