Big Island Bull's Eye - Again!!!

[Dypsisdean]

Way way early - and still a lot of advertised uncertainty - so let's hope they are wrong. But if they are right, this would get dicey again. They have it as a hurricane Sat, poised to make a direct hit.

[DALION]

That does not look good. Even if the eye is 100 miles left or right of center I'm thinking heavy downpours and strong winds are headed there. Be safe and batten down the hatches.

[Kim]

Oh, please, no more storm damage. I just finished cleaning up all the fallen trees (about 8). Here is a view of the beat up vestiaria path after cleanup, me doing The Scream. You can see a few new leaves emerging above the battered crowns, the remains of stilt roots to the right of me in the pic, the only palm that got flattened by the many trees that fell here.

[_Keith]

Oh, please, no more storm damage. I just finished cleaning up all the fallen trees (about 8). Here is a view of the beat up vestiaria path after cleanup, me doing The Scream. You can see a few new leaves emerging above the battered crowns, the remains of stilt roots to the right of me in the pic, the only palm that got flattened by the many trees that fell here.

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Kim,

I must not have been keeping up. I had no idea you had that much damage. Yikes.

[MKIVRYAN]

Stay safe out there guys and gals!

[Kim]

Hoping it's not so bad this time:

[sur4z]

^{On our side of the world, Florida has dodged a couple big hits; but it looks like Bermuda is going to take it on the head again on Friday.}

[sur4z]

...maybe with any luck Ana will pass below the Big Island

[displaced_floridian]

Below would be worse, as the strongest winds are in the right front quadrant, and will be onshore, driving higher storm surges

[Cindy Adair]

Oh, please, no more storm damage. I just finished cleaning up all the fallen trees (about 8). Here is a view of the beat up vestiaria path after cleanup, me doing The Scream. You can see a few new leaves emerging above the battered crowns, the remains of stilt roots to the right of me in the pic, the only palm that got flattened by the many trees that fell here.

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I like the photo but not the damage! I certainly hope you bypass the current threat! I haven't heard from my closest neighbors in Puerto Rico, but the reports look like we lucked out again on our farm with Gonzalo. All of us will be glad when hurricane season ends.

[bgl]

All these Big Island natural disasters, Tropical Storm Iselle in August, the lava making major advances in September and October, and now Tropical Storm Ana... Extremely poor co-ordination. With the power going out for an extended period of time for each natural disaster, would it be too much to ask for a bit of consideration? Why not have everything happen at the SAME TIME! But oh no, these disasters apparently have a bit of ego - each of them wanting to inflict maximum damage all on their own and getting individual credit! A Natural Disasters Shrink would have a field day with these guys. "Displaying a clear and disturbing need to get attention". "A serious inability and unwillingness relating to, and communcating, with other Natural Disasters". "Failure to grasp its own shortcomings - no matter what, you're not going to be another Hurricane Katrina or come close to the destruction that the lavaflow in AD 79 inflicted on Pompeii".

[Dr. George]

Each update from CPHC has Ana passing a little more to the west. Let's hope the trend continues. - gmp

[displaced_floridian]

Fortunately it's a small storm with hurricane winds extending out only 20 miles from the eye, and tropical storm force winds only 65 miles. You may have dodged the bullet !

[MikeL]

Looks like Ana will deliver only a glancing blow to the Big Island. Here on Maui it's been rainy and blustery all day - I think we're get a lot of moisture pushed at us from the advancing storm. But rain and bluster aren't that uncommon around here.

Mike

[Cindy Adair]

Hi everybody! So many of you I have now had the privilege to meet in person and others to converse with online here.

I'm glad to hear Hawaii may escape the worst, but will await the all clear from everyone....

[bgl]

So far, so good! It's been a very wet night (and it's 5:30 am as I type this), but not that much wind, and that's just fine. We can handle pretty much any amount of rain without difficulties. Strong winds, not so much.

[Dypsisdean]

No wind at all here. Only an inch and a quarter of rain so far.

Kona could use one of these twice a week.

[bgl]

3.34 inches here as of 8 am this morning. Better than nothing! And a few brief showers since then, but probably didn't add up to much. The strongest winds since yesterday could probably best be described as "blustery". Nothing significant, that's for sure.

[Dypsisdean]

Haven't ever seen this before - the path of the vog from the volcano. Easy to see where the center of the hurricane is.

[colin Peters]

Went for a ride by diamond head today, dark clouds on the horizon, now its been raining all day. No wind, lots of mellow

rain, no complaints, yet.

aloha

[mike in kurtistown]

From the east (windward) side of Hawaii Island. Winds were actually less than normal. Last I checked, I had 8 inches of rain, and there has been more since then. Good time for potting and mixing more soil.

[Al in Kona]

Here in south Kona Tropical Storm Ana did give us some nice rain but no wind, a similar situation as with Hurricane Iselle. When these storms pass to the south, long and high Mauna Loa seems to protect the Kona side.

[DoomsDave]

Kim what's your vestiara row look like now?

Bet it's almost grown back after a month.

[Kim]

Dave, the vestiaria trail is looking really fine. It has a new perimeter of logs along the south side -- a big pile of lucky misses -- and the new leaves and new spears are bringing back the feel of a tunnel of orange crownshafts and maroon leaves, just magical. With the exception of a single lost palm, all the way at the end (no missing front teeth) you'd never know how many trees fell on that area, stripping fronds and mashing roots.

Now with the storms past and the lava stalled, the feeling of impending doom is replaced by deep attachment to this little patch of paradise. Life is good. My heart is full.