Oh, Danny Boy...

Earlier in the week there was much bru-ha-ha about Hurricane Daniel. At that point, speculation was that the hurricane would convert to a tropical storm and hit south of Hilo on the Big Island on Friday.
"Local"** news was warning us to take cover, stock our emergency preparedness kit and basically get ready to sh*t in our pants. The last time the radar/satellite pictures looked like this was right before Iniki hit Kauai in 1992.

Lucky for us, Danny Boy slowed to a crawl and broke up on Wednesday.
The forecast calls for rain and clouds today with clearing for the weekend. There is a flash flood warning for the Big Island and Maui today. My sense is that this applies mostly to lower Puna and Hilo areas. Our rain tends to just sink into the porous lava rock. Mud isn't really a problem since we don't have much dirt. [Not so good for fence building, but nice when it rains.]

My one concession to the news emergency hype was to buy some soy milk. That way even if we have a really bad storm and our power goes out we can eat cereal for days until HELCO (electric company) makes there way up the hill.


**Local in the Hawaii news world means Oahu. Rarely do they even refer to the Big Island so it's a bit of a misnomer, but the closest we have.