It’s awful, it’s beautiful, it’s awful …
Thunder. Lightning. Hail. Water spouts. Wind. And drenching rain.
Weather’s been pretty extreme, hasn’t it?
Not to go all biblical, but if all this had happened a little closer to the first week of April — when Passover falls this year on the Jewish calendar — people might have been waiting for the next of the Plagues of Egypt. (Are the locusts or frogs going to rain down next?)
On the other hand, the spectacle has been something. Waterfalls streaking down the Koolaus like silver ribbons, channelized streams taking on the look of raging rivers.
Wait a minute: Isn’t this deluge and all the runoff the culprit behind the sewage spills, the burst pipes and the traffic jams?
Never mind. Show’s over. Enough with the waterworks.
Security guard needs lesson in aloha
The aloha spirit was turned upside down in the early hours of Tuesday when an elderly couple whose flight had been cancelled at Lihue Airport ended up sleeping through the stormy night on the concrete floor of a shelter. Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz tried to turn it upright when he told Michael and Georgia Young of Littleton, Colo. that the state was "sorry and we wanted to express our aloha."
The Youngs had spent a five-day vacation celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and were at the airport late Monday when their flight was cancelled. About 12:30 a.m., a security guard informed the Youngs and other travelers that they had to leave the airport, and he threatened to call the police if they refused.
MIchael Young exhibited the Colorado form of aloha, thanking "this kind Hawaiian fireman, bless his heart, he had to be an angel," who commandeered a taxi to the shelter. "Thank God for the shelter," he added.
