FLASH FLOOD WARNING

Last night the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch that was upgraded to a warning. I had to go into Haleiwa today, but turned around when I realized how bad it was. Kam Hiway into Wahiawa is closed. Kam Hiway towards Kahuku is closed and so is Kaukonahua, so we're pretty much cut off (which really can be a good thing). The rivers are over flowing onto the roads, which leads them to have rushing deep water going across the road. I snapped a few pictures to get an idea of what it looks like.

I had tried to get back home (1 mile away), but took this picture right before they closed this down. This was the last bus to cross. This river caused this...
the area where the shrimp trucks are is flooded and things are washing away out into the ocean.

This river is moving so fast (those dark things are huge pieces of rubbish ) under here...

Anahulu Bridge (or Rainbow bridge) (note how close it is to the bottom of the bridge) that it caused this...

a canoe being washed out to sea because the river ate into the canoe club's area where they have their canoes stored. I watched as two guys on paddle boards went up the beach, towards Puena Point and paddled out to it. This was a big 6 -man canoe. Not sure how they were going to get it into shore.

Hubby is flying in today from Oakland. Not sure he'll be able to get out here. Hope so. All the schools are closed in the area because of all the flooding. If it just stops raining for a little bit, a lot of the water will go away. Hubby took down our tarp before he left because he heard on the news there would be high winds, and there were last night.

So it's a good day to try and get some stuff done around here, just need the wrapping paper, Christmas cards and ribbon!