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ellisonz

(27,711 posts)
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:24 AM Mar 2012

Tornado Hits Lanikai, Enchanted Lake Subdivision

Water Spout Moves Ashore, Damages Homes
Catherine Cruz KITV4 News Reporter
POSTED: 6:07 pm HST March 9, 2012
UPDATED: 7:22 pm HST March 9, 2012

HONOLULU -- The National Weather Service says the twister began on the water, and made its way on land after 7a.m. cutting traveling a mile and a half inland.

Sara Mai Kui recalled how powerful the water spout looked as she watched it from the Kailua boat ramp. She described the water coming off the shore creating what looked like a bowl of water. But not long after it made landfall, and she thought..

"Oh, no! There's going to be another tornado, and it’s going to take somebody's house," Mai Kui said.

The twister came up on Mokulua Drive destroying a vacation rental. The winds pulled off up part of the roof and blew it into a neighbor’s yard, where it sits- up in an ironwood tree.

Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30649791/detail.html#ixzz1oh0oGbAP
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Tornado Hits Lanikai, Enchanted Lake Subdivision (Original Post) ellisonz Mar 2012 OP
We're going there soon. Wild weather! I saw one place in Kauai got 46" of rain in a week! kysrsoze Mar 2012 #1
It's not over yet either... ellisonz Mar 2012 #2

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)
2. It's not over yet either...
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 03:06 AM
Mar 2012

...my sister was saying the storm has turned around. I guess it sort of came from an odd wind. Feel free to post any questions you have in the group! Aloha.

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