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A car is wedged Sunday between a house and debris in Anahola, after
the Anahola River broke its banks in the pre-dawn hours and flooded
the community downstream. DENNIS FUJIMOTO/THE GARDEN ISLAND VIA AP
missions.
Kauai Mayor Bernard
Carvalho Jr. and Hawaii Gov.
Davide Ige assessed damage and
rescue needs by helicopter on
Monday.
“While we have a long road
to recovery ahead of us, we are
incredibly grateful for everyone
who has stepped to the plate
to help in one way or another,”
Carvalho said.
There were no reports of major
injuries. At least two houses on
Kauai resident James Hennessy shows
the view as he maneuvers a stand-up
paddleboarding along his flooded street in
Haena on Sunday. JAMES HENNESSY/AP PHOTO
It’s definitely the worst storm
in recent memory.
KAUAI COUNTY SPOKESWOMAN
BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONOLULU — Heavy rains
on Kauai let up on Monday,
which helped emergency workers
better rescue people stranded by
flooding on the Hawaiian island.
By Monday afternoon, emergency
crews evacuated 152 people
by helicopter, 121 people by bus
and others by water, according to
the governor’s office.
Officials were warning people
who wanted to be evacuated
that it’s not known when they
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can return because of landslides
blocking Kuhio Highway on the
island’s north shore.
Forty people, mostly tourists,
were stuck since Saturday night
at a Red Cross shelter in an elementary
school in the north shore
town of Hanalei. Plans to airlift
them out of the school, which was
surrounded by water, were abandoned
because severe weather
grounded helicopters, said Coralie
Matayoshi, CEO of American Red
Cross of Hawaii.
On Sunday night, another 21
people made their way to the
shelter on personal watercraft
and boats, she said. The shelter
earlier had run out of food and
water, but received adequate provisions
Sunday, she said.
By the afternoon, flood waters
receded enough for a bus to take
them to another shelter, the Red
Cross said.
An estimated 30 campers
were stranded in the Napali
Coast State Wilderness Park on
Monday. State parks officials
were coordinating with county
and state emergency workers
about prioritizing rescue
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SCOUTS CABIN DAMAGED BY FALLEN TREE Like a good neighbor
PTA LEADS VOLUNTEER EFFORT TO REPAIR GIRL
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permits
halted
BY GITA HOWARD
WEST HAWAII TODAY
ghoward@westhawaiitoday.com
KAILUA-KONA —
Conservation groups hope
there will be plenty of fish
in the sea following another
legal victory against the
Department of Land and
Resources.
The First Circuit
Court, sitting as the
Environmental Court,
ruled that all unexpired
recreational aquarium
collection permits are
void.
The April 12 ruling
invalidates around 131
permits. Each permit
authorized the recreational
capture of almost 2,000
fish each year for a total of
around 250,000 fish per
year.
“We’re happy those
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Kilauea
summit
lava lake up
BY TOM CALLIS
HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD
HILO — Kilauea’s summit
lava lake is the highest
it’s been in more than a
year.
The lake inside
Overlook crater, which
sits inside Halema‘uma‘u
Crater, continually rises
and falls in concert with
magma pressure below.
As of Monday morning,
this cycle had pushed it
to just 33 feet below the
Overlook rim, making it
visible from a safe distance
at Jaggar Museum.
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CAMP KILOHANA —
It’s always nice to have a
good neighbor — especially
when you’re in a bind.
After a 12-inch diameter
tree limb fell amid foul
weather this past winter,
damaging one of the cabins
at the Girl Scouts’ Camp
Kilohana, the nonprofit
organization was in a predicament,
needing to repair
the sleeping quarters in
time for the annual islandwide
Girl Scouts campout
this summer — but with
little resources.
“We were really struggling
to figure out how
we were going to raise the
money to get this done,”
said Girl Scouts of Hawaii
Council CEO Shari Chang,
after noting the council
recently spent $1.2 million
upgrading the camp’s
wastewater system to meet
EPA standards.
That’s when the organization’s
Hawaii Island area
director, Marci Goldman-
Manker, thought to reach
out to the 54-year-old
camp’s neighbor in the
Saddle, the U.S. Army’s
Pohakuloa Training Area
(PTA).
“They were more than
happy to come over and
assist,” said Chang. “It was
terrific.”
While Girl Scouts has
always notified PTA when
BY CHELSEA JENSEN
WEST HAWAII TODAY
cjensen@westhawaiitoday.com
Apprentice
carpenter
Melissa
Parker
works
on the
volunteer
project
repairing
a cabin
at Camp
Kilohana
Saturday
morning.
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