And away was moving quickly back to normal the day after the ferocious attack by monster hurricane Eva
But we have a long way to go
Eva has left a legacy of destruction and tragedy three storm related deaths
Damage to property in the millions planes and boats tossed like twigs trees and poles snapped like toothpicks and
Electricity of course became a precious commodity. We began with a series of reports first
Russell Shamoka who has been on kawaii for the past 24 hours
At about 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the winds and sea had already picked up speed
And it was then and there the people of kawaii knew they were going to be in for a rough night
The seas were expected to rise 20 to 30 feet winds anywhere from 80 to 130 miles an hour
Hurricane Evie was predicted to smash the south side of the island and here at Poy Poo Beach that prediction was seemingly becoming
True what was happening at Poy Poo was indicative of what was taking place all over the island
Waves already came pouring over the break wall causing extensive flooding to homes on the shoreline
When the order came down an immediate evacuation began
All beach residents are urged to leave the area
Police and civil defense workers swiftly moved residents from the low-lying areas
Some made sure the hatches were battened down before leaving
Those evacuated from the Poy Poo area were taken to Koloa Community School one of several shelters set up by the Red Cross
This was to be their home for the night or the next couple of nights for no one really knew how long the storm would last
Number 245-3213 for information on where to go for evacuation etc.
The civil defense is very working very hard right now and not to be called unless it is a dire emergency
A few tuned into portable radios for the latest information while others became preoccupied with something else
Of course there were some of those who just didn't know what was going on
Meantime in Laihui schools and county offices were closed early enabling residents to prepare their homes for the high winds
Stores took the warning seriously taping up windows and reinforcing doors
The pounding ones took their toll early a broken sign here torn off roofing there but nothing like the destruction soon to come
Laihui thus became a ghost town no one in sight for blocks
At 2 30 the Laihui airport was closed down marooning travelers on an island destined for a beating
There will be no more flights today we are going to be closing the terminal building
We will ask you to depart the terminal building
On the gray line buses arriving at the front of the terminal
4 pm Eevee really began to brew tossing the ships in Nauwiliwili harbor like toy boats in a bathtub
At this time the streets were not safe trees and power lines gave way to the powerful force of
Hurricane Eevee the brunt of the storm hit the island at 7 pm strong sturdy palm trees were no match for the
relentless winds topping off at 110 miles an hour windows at the kawai surf hotel simply gave way
scattering debris all over the place this lobby was just recently renovated and now it's a total mess
but while the storm raged outside inside people tried to stay calm
but somehow there's always a connection between storms and spirits
and if you ask this crowd the response might have been what's the one but later on today we see the
aftermath of poi pu beach what was once a beautiful resort area now looks like a battlefield cars many
of them damaged and overturned the place was littered with cards from this well this carpool
to those that didn't have it so easy condominiums were completely destroyed also the beach didn't
have much to do anyway road cars wouldn't have been much luck anyway because the roads were so
much damage trees also fell they also fell on houses they uprooted this big tree and also power
lines were completely destroyed we'll have more later on tonight this is ross with shimoka reporting
from kawaii and we also sent another new center for crew to kawaii today to follow up on the
aftermath of iva and the cleanup here's that report this is kelly dean in quite a contrast from
yesterday the sun was out on kawaii today it could be seen reflecting off the copper roof of lihui's
first Hawaiian bank the only problem the bank's roof was in the street the lihui business district
was like a morgue today there was no electricity water and in most cases telephone service available
so the stores just stayed closed the only activity in town the cleanup
national guard troops were called in to secure all the damaged financial institutions there were
reports of looting at several businesses and homes during the confusion that followed the
hurricane's onslaught last night governor arayoshi flew to kawaii this morning for a
firsthand look at the destruction the damages that i've seen just coming from the airport to here
is very extensive and i'm really shocked at the extent of the damages all of the trees the roof
of the buildings are being damaged it's a horrible sight after i came here i've got general ishimoto
and he has already instructed the people here to make a list of the kind of things that they need
in a hurry the pumps the generating equipment the electrical generating equipment we can put them
in where they need is the greatest now we've also indicated that we're going to go to the navy the
marines the army and honolulu ask them about the facility that they have and whatever they have we
can borrow them so that we can get things back to operational level as soon as possible here the
governor called the devastation the worst hawaii disaster he's ever seen everywhere you looked on
kawaii today the streets were littered with debris including power poles that snapped like twigs in
the force of the hurricane winds those same winds also reduced the state's oldest lutheran church
to kindling it had been standing for more than 100 years when it crumpled in the face of yesterday's
storm the nearly total destruction came just one month after the completion of a five-year
restoration project on the church we were just thinking about sitting back and taking it easy
because i'm only i will be 88 in january and perhaps this is the lord saying look you got some
more useful years you got a job ahead if you start in restoring it spire estimates it will cost up to
a half a million dollars to once again restore his church just on the street from the church the ho'omana
ho'ohana athletic club's tennis courts were wiped out the facility's clubhouse was also blown over
dozens of homes were demolished by the hurricane in some cases the damage was so complete it almost
looked as if a giant hand had reached out and ripped the house apart well as you can see from
the ways the way the trees are set there's a lot of wind coming out of the valley from both directions
really started hard about two o'clock yesterday afternoon the neighbor's house here gave away
about 4 30 and they stayed with me through the storm and mostly from the wind not too much rain
just just wind trees were uprooted all across kawaii others were cut down intentionally to prevent them
from accidentally falling over the damage in some housing areas was widespread and as with downtown
lehue the cleanup is underway making me so scared i don't know what to say everything you know shaking
and i look at that side everything was crying yeah you don't feel that and everything yeah several air raid sirens
were blown off their mounts by the storm and radio station kivm had its tower knocked over although it
managed to stay on the air by stringing a ground antenna the airport was another area hard hit by
the storm several planes were severely damaged including this crop dust that was flipped over by
the strong winds service in and out of the hui airport resumed this morning some of the first
to arrive the red cross after we've made our initial assessment to be determined how many
additional personnel will have to send over from oahu and even perhaps from the continental united
states helix predicts that red cross personnel will be on kawaii for as long as a month cleaning up
after the hurricane the airport was jammed with tourists today who are trying to get off the
island since it had no water power or hot meals available but trying to handle the passenger load
without telephones electricity and computerized reservations was no easy chore everybody wants to
go at the same time i don't want to check out the airlines added extra flights to handle the kawaii
backlog but even so most passengers had to wait several hours to catch a plane what everyone here
on kawaii is thankful for is that no one was killed by the hurricane there were numerous injuries
however but luckily most of those were just minor cuts and lacerations caused by shattering glass
and flying debris kelly dean new center four on kawaii now on oahu one of the areas hardest
hit last night the leeward coast from nanakuli to makaha many homes there met the ocean's wrath
and lost here's a look at some of the damage from the leeward coast this is an body jelly if one
area on the leeward coast had to be declared the hardest hit it might be this macao street neighborhood
in makaha here houses were totally reduced to rubble or split into several pieces and distributed
at the whim of the sea throughout the area until last night two houses stood side by side right here
now they're across the street underneath this pond like area macao street continues yet this morning
homeowners who gathered to figure out where everything was remained calm their neighborhood
was destroyed but they were not the house is material and the family means more than the material
thing that we have so we're thankful for that residents here and in other homes along the
farrington highway coast were among 1 000 evacuated last night to friends homes or emergency shelters
most say they left their homes around 6 p.m overnight wind sent waves crashing over the sand dunes on the makai side of the highway
inside the shelters residents did what they could to divert their thoughts no doubt wondering what
they would find when they returned home for hero and besi takahashi it was much worse than expected
although water was crashing onto their lawn when they left home yesterday evening mrs. takahashi
said she expected only some flooding what she found instead left her speechless and mr. takahashi
was surprised as well we lived here 25 years and we lived through all the tidal waves and whatnot
and it's the first time something has ever happened to us along the highway this morning people were
either cleaning up their own property or helping someone else clean up his ed de mello who became
one of the few leeward coast residents to suffer injuries when a piece of his roof blew off onto
his feet supervised friends trying to bolster the foundation of his home de mello is sitting
in what used to be an enclosed storage area even further down the road in nanakuli residents
recounted the horrors of the night before the first wave came over the embankment and when i
talked to more supervisor and i seen the wave coming and then next thing you know the top pools
fell down so i told them workers to let's get out of here this came over the bank it just started
to come in come in and keep going further inside you know surveying the damage along the highway
the obvious question is where do they go from here the answer however isn't that simple what
are you going to do next i don't know and by the chile new center four i'm sandy carney hurricane
force winds and waves pounded ships and resulted in the so far only death attributed directly to
the storm the navy reported that a crewman aboard the u.s.s. goalsboro died as a result of injuries
several other crewmen were injured as navy ships were ordered from pearl harbor to weather the storm
at sea one man was reported swept overboard and later made it to shore in honolulu itself most of
the hurricane damage centered in the waterfront areas today honolulu harbor itself is calm but
it was a different story last night at key hey lagoon by 7 30 tuesday night boat owners at key
hey lagoon were fighting 60 mile an hour winds to secure their vessels well we're just trying to
pull it off the pier a little bit keep it off the windward side listen to the two boats over here
the bow pubs were just beating together and smashing each other up and just everybody sort
of gets together and helps whatever boats they can you know whoever down here take the peak take
care of people it's not several boat owners weren't as lucky this vessel was completely destroyed
smashed to pieces against the pier it was rougher than the very blazes well we put tires all along
the side of it and tried to keep it from banging against the pier and some big surges come through
in a big wind gust toppled the top off of it and the tires all popped out and just chewed it up on
the pier this one swamped and sank early wednesday morning owner bj johnson saw his home and everything
he owned under 15 feet of water that's it that's everything right there we were so concerned about
saving the boat didn't worry about saving anything in the boat like even the clothes you have on or
well they're borrowed from friends other boats that had the same concern last night it was quite
a chaos at key hey rescue 2 was on duty throughout the night for oahu the fire alarm bureau reported
140 alarms in a 12-hour period the usual number is 20 i've been in the fire department for 20
years and this is the first time something of this magnitude most of those alarm calls were
coming from three areas on oahu wayanai kailua and one of the hardest hit kanaiohe with over
30 homes severely damaged and several like this one on kalali street completely destroyed and the
wind kept getting stronger and stronger and i got real worried and i got up and walked in the kitchen
just i walked in the kitchen the roof went and by the time i broke the speed record turn around
getting on the floor behind the door it was gone it was probably one or two seconds and the entire
roof went at one time it didn't go in pieces what will you do from here we're going to try and find
a place to live and rebuild stronger winds early in the evening tore down haiku road toppling high
power lines smashing cars and homes unlike wayanai residents who had been evacuated to shelters
kanaiohe residents had no official warning when the winds gusting up to 100 miles an hour hit
i was sleeping here sound asleep what happened what did it sound like the loudest thunder i've
heard in my life what will you do now what i'm going to do now i don't know more like not home
most of the injuries last night in kanaiohe were caused by broken glass
shattered and sent flying by the high winds castle hospital reported over 50 treated in the
emergency room we've had injuries such as glass breaking and hitting patients in the eyes we had
one lady where her house caved in and she was hit by a plate glass end of brick wall we had a man
who was in his home and his ceiling fell in he had a back injury with the laceration and most of it's
been laceration today kanaiohe residents begin digging out from under the debris marines at the
kanaiohe base were called out some assisted with keeping traffic moving through the stricken areas
throughout the day a mile long line of trucks commercial and private vehicles were headed
toward kailua dump carrying fallen trees and the remnants of houses that had been smashed beyond
repair yet to be estimated damages in the kailua kanaiohe area include agriculture whole plantations
of bananas were destroyed like this one with a crop that was just about ready for harvest
telephone and electric company crews have been working around the clock to try to restore power
to the stricken areas in the aftermath of the tragedy there was an obvious air of relief and
camaraderie among those cleaning up perhaps the memories of just getting through the night before
had something to do with it even in honolulu for example when for several hours the lights were out
the winds howled signs were turned upside down on nimitz highway and the solitary rescue and
repair crews went about the business of trying to get things back to normal sandy carney and
cameraman brian smith for new center four and late in the day governor arioshi announced that he of
course will be seeking federal disaster relief he also said that he could see damaged houses and
roofs below as he flew over niihau today there is no specific information on how niihau fared
the eye of iva passed right over it blen there was a fatal traffic accident this morning that
claimed the lives of two people the tragedy occurred at about 1015 at the intersection of
king street and university avenue when a private refuse collector and a white dotson collided
both the driver of the car and her passenger were taken to queens medical center where they died
later police said only tentative identifications have been made and the next of kin must still be
located the driver of the truck was apparently uninjured according to police at the scene the
truck was on king street traveling coco head the car also traveling on king street but headed in
the other direction it was making a left turn onto university avenue when the accident occurred
police said there have been conflicting eyewitness reports as to whether or not the traffic signals
were operating at the time today's deaths mark the 87th and 88 fatalities on oahu for the year
as compared to 85 at the same time last year extensive damage was done to some old wooden
homes at the diamond head end of waikiki michelle lum and cameraman doug hya were at the site this
morning to view the aftermath there used to be a brick seawall here it acted as a barrier and
protected these old but charming wooden homes from the wave action last night the seawall might just
as well have been made out of paper there are six houses on this piece of property which is owned by
hazel international a japanese conglomerate steve vallow manages the units he also lives here and
last night he and the tenants from next door were having dinner when the first of a series of waves
struck about eight o'clock last night the first wave came in it was about 25 feet high came over
both the stories in the house we were eating in the living room to our right right here
uh in the upper living room luckily the blinds were pulled down the glass came in the walls came
in the furniture started going out in the ocean and we just had enough time to grab our wallets
grab a couple pieces of clothes and go out the back door valo said a couple of the ways completely
engulf the front homes he said although basic precautions were taken somehow you never realize
how serious a hurricane can be until it actually strikes residents were cleaning up this morning
salvaging what they could and for the most part just worrying about today and letting tomorrow
take care of itself this is michelle lump for new center four and new center for zemmick temembong
has been surveying the damage at honolulu international airport and damage to at least
a half dozen small planes here's her report now it's business as usual here at the honolulu
international airport where it has been for the most part through last night's storm but it's
cleanup time this morning here at gate 18 maintenance crews this morning were sweeping up bits and pieces
of glass which shattered just the night before it happened while some 400 outbound passengers were
about to board an american airlines flight to texas the force of the 90 mile per hour winds blew out
an entire panel sending glass upward ripping through the ceiling upon their departure this
morning the passengers who got an extra day in hawaii were in relatively good spirits despite
last night's incident all of a sudden the one window blew in there was a lot of screaming no
panic really quite a few women were hurt it was mass panic people were running people were yelling
get down get down and the glass was just flowing through the window it was totally it was bizarre
it was like a scene from a movie at least three passengers were treated and released for superficial
cuts and wounds in the incident in other airport damages the control tower last night would have
probably been surprised at seeing some strange planes on the runway unpiloted at least four planes
danced around and moved about the airport runways last night some for even half a mile one dc3 did
just that after being towed and tied down twice and here at the old lockheed building we find a
sesna 150 completely flipped over on its back having made a somersault over that fence looked
like about six or eight airplanes suffered major damage up to including total loss a lot of minor
damage rudders and control surfaces damaged aircraft hit by debris flying through the air
at the national weather service the crew some having been up all night were now a bit relieved
that the worst was over weather forecasted this morning charted hurricane eva at least
350 miles east of honolulu now downgraded into a tropical storm and quickly dissipating out into
the open seas but last night at the peak of her wins the national weather service was without any
satellite or teletype communications making it difficult to track eva and inform the public of
her force and direction this experience make you think or bring up the whole situation that
without any kind of backup power we're virtually helpless in this kind of situation
power we're virtually helpless in this kind of emergency well that's always a consideration and
that's something that we have certainly been aware of for a long long time and these are things that
we're looking into when we we understand the vulnerability of the power and the communications
problem that's true last night storm could have been worse though we may be spending time now
evaluating our preparedness the good news once again is the weather it looks like most of the
bad weather is now out of the way and for the next few days it looks like we're going to have
the regular balmy weather whether we normally have in honolulu happy thanksgiving right thanksgiving
should be a good one emmy tim mbong new center four at the national weather service
you get everything anderson spent most of yesterday and last night at the oahu civil
defense headquarters monitoring what information was available and she's with us live in the studio
tonight mayor anderson have you had a chance to look around the island today yes lynn we did
make a complete tour of oahu today to get some firsthand view of what the situation was obviously
as your pictures have already shown the worst damage was in the way and i in nanakuli area
we have extensive work to do out there we did then go on over kunia road and into wahia on the
skofield barracks area and i was amazed at the heavy damage at skofield barracks they've suffered
tremendous damage to homes to the trees to new structures in that area the wahia town has
severe damage the roofs are off there's glass and debris all over the streets we went on around then
and i think one thing that impressed me most is we went on around near our light ea corporation yard
there's a stretch of about a mile with every single telephone pole just lying flat on the ground
then as you get into kahalu, kahava, kahalu and the kaneohare area again you see severe damage
to the homes to garages to private property all in that area so there's a lot of heavy damage
throughout the island i realize this would be a preliminary assessment but do you have any kind
of monetary damage estimates yet yes we do our our departments were getting their data back to civil
defense agency it is very early but a rough estimate at this stage is about 40 million dollars
10 million of which would be to federal property 30 million to private of which private and our own
public about four million dollars to public facilities that's that's our best guess at this time
there is some state aid available although it's just over a million dollars in a drop in a bucket
so to speak in situations like this but is there any aid on the city and county level that's
comparable to that well we do have aid for individuals those who have suffered damage to
their homes we do have a program for providing low interest home loans for rehabilitation and
our people at the department of housing and community development will be circulating that
information as soon as we can the red cross is working and they all know about that sort of aid
we will be asking the governor to declare oahu an emergency so that we can qualify for some of that
state aid and also to help him in making an appeal to the federal government for aid let me just ask
quickly because there has already been a great deal of discussion about it last night and today
about the the communications gap that took place last night now what is your assessment of the
civil defense operation and the communication situation and do you feel it needs some
reevaluation reassessment and possible revision tim it certainly does i spent many hours in the
civil defense center last night and saw firsthand what had happened there i was very concerned
about the fact that the people in our community went through a blackout in effect of getting good
information as to what was what was going on we certainly have to evaluate that and make sure that
doesn't happen again i also was concerned about the fact that in no one place on the island of
oahu could you get a feed-in of information from all sources for example right next to our civil
defense agency is the fire alarm bureau and i spent much time in there listening and seeing what was
going on but that meant that we didn't know what was going on in the police side so depending on
where you were you got a certain segment of the information and it seems to me that we ought to
have some central place where where the press could come for example and know that what they
were getting represented the full range of information feeding into a central center
about the situation out in the community so we're certainly going to reassess that
we're still having a lot of power problems all over the island in several areas is there anything
you'd like to to say to the people of oahu and then i think i have to be uh say to everyone that
they must be very very conservative about the use of any kind of power you know uh today was such a
delightful day in honolulu it was so sunny and people were back out of the beach and it was sort
of as though nothing had happened if your power was on you felt as though nothing had occurred
but i must say to all of you that we're in a very serious situation throughout the island
with the electric power off it means that we're having trouble pumping water it means that we're
having trouble pumping water it means that we're having trouble pumping our sewer system we're
having trouble keeping the street lights going the traffic signals going everything on this island
is terribly dependent upon that electricity and of course i know the gas companies having trouble
because they don't have electricity and so my appeal to everybody in the community tonight is
please do not use any more water than you need to do not use any more electricity than you need to
if you don't have to go out this evening don't go out because the traffic lights are sometimes on
sometimes they're not on it is a critical situation i believe and while we have everybody working very
hard at it it's going to take time and so uh you know tomorrow's thanksgiving we have a lot to be
thankful for today that we are all here and uh and we came through it quite well uh but i think we
have to be very very cautious tomorrow uh and perhaps uh show our thanks in some way other than
than spending several hours cooking okay thank you very much mayor anderson for coming down to
share that with us tonight the red cross and the civil defense have their first semi-complete damage
assessment teams began working early this morning and from aerial and land reconnaissance have come
up with a rough estimate of damage to niihau kawaii and oahu they put structural damage in
three categories destroyed meaning it would not be financially feasible to repair the building
major the home is unlivable at present but it is repairable and minor repairs are needed but the
home can be lived in for the time being along the leeward coast preliminary estimates again these are
preliminary show 26 homes destroyed 117 with major damage and 137 with minor damage on niihau about
20 damaged homes no other information as to degree of damage or personal injuries and on kawaii again
a very rough estimate of 5 000 homes destroyed or sustaining major damage one note of good news
however the nanakuli and wahia shelters will be serving dinner tonight between six and eight thirty
and people in those areas with no power are welcome tim in times of crisis mariners usually
look to the coast guard for assistance but the coast guard had some problems of its own with
hurricane eva on kawaii a 40-foot coast guard patrol boat sank after being smashed by surf as
high as 12 feet and of course the 100 mile per hour winds boat was still tied up at the pier in
the wheelie wheelie harbor when it went down six other boats in the harbor sank or ran aground
now on maui a coast guard boat capsized in maalai a harbor after being buffeted by the high surf
a 21-foot boston whaler was on route to assist another boat when it capsized the crew swam ashore
there were no injuries and today coast guard spokesman said that both vessels could be
salvaged and on awahoo another patrol boat ran aground near the sand island drawbridge
the 40-foot ship was pulled free by another coast guard vessel and last night hundreds of volunteers
turned out to help save the falls of kai the museum ship was pounded by high surf and winds
until it began breaking its lines volunteers strained to control the ship which was in danger
of breaking up finally two barges were used to remove the ship to the relative safety of pier 35
while the falls of kai suffered only minor damage the pier where it was initially tied up was
severely damaged and right next door the oceania floating restaurant ship was having problems of
its own the high winds and seas smashed into the boat the pier workers fought to save it most of
the ship's 26 mooring lines were snapped and all three gang planks were torn away other than some
minor damage to the exterior and a chandelier that crashed to the showroom floor the oceania
escaped serious damage as spokeswoman said they hope to restore the utilities and be back in
business on monday although the boats and the sailors didn't weather the storm too well tourists
today seemed rather unaffected as michelle lund found out after a stroll through waikiki
driving through waikiki the day after a hurricane brought a few surprises
we mainly met up with downed palm fronds and a sand cover road which looked like an extension
of coheel beach as for our visitors most of them seemed to take the storm all in stride
oh yeah it was going on and off all over the area and we just kind of stood out on the balcony and
watched it go on and off it was uh kind of like a show we're at the pacific beach hotel and uh
my mom climbed up 29 flights of stairs it was long but they were very good you know we stopped
every two floors or so they just said whenever you feel like it just stopped and everybody really
pulled together we made so many friends last night got a what cold uh cold sandwiches for meal
trying to get a cup of coffee the first morning since yesterday at lunchtime that's how our
visitors fared many looking to buy their first hot meal since early yesterday afternoon then spend
the rest of the day sunning on the beaches as far as residents a number spent the day cleaning up
electricity was or still is out throughout oahu and food spoilage is a very real problem
ruth spargo of hawaiian electric company had some tips on refrigeration if the food is still
in the freezer it may be okay depending on the type of freezer you have if you have a top mount
freezer the food could last up to 24 hours a side by side 12 to 18 hours a separate freezer
either a chest type or upright up to 72 hours so usually the best thing to do is not open the door
until that time has elapsed spargo says there are all kinds of variables affecting the quality of
your food size of refrigerator how filled it was how cold it was unfortunately there are no general
rules to follow the best measuring stick is if in doubt toss it out spargo says their crews are
working to get full service restored and for now they're asking the public to please limit the use
of electricity she also suggests that you turn off the circuit breaker to your water heater
the household's major consumer of electricity this is michelle lum for new center four in the
wake of eva three oahu utility companies today were desperately trying to correct the devastation
the storm produced representatives from hawaiian telephone gasco and hawaiian electric each tried
to outline their plan of action and clear up a confused picture but our biggest problem is the
traffic on the network because most of our switching centers are on standby power that's
either on a generator or batteries and those facilities can be worn down by the amount of
calling each switching center has to handle and if we have high traffic loads we're not going to
be able to carry the load for much longer and we may see offices start to drop off as the batteries
fail or as the generators get overloaded and fuses start to blow so i have to urge everybody to
please be careful about what types of calls they make we're asking a lot of residents who use
utility gas and that's primarily in the area from waipao to hawaii kai that they minimize the use
of the gas if there's some necessity for having it and hopefully that they've turned down their
water heaters to the pilot level that's just a little valve and it says pilot on it or on
and you can just turn it right to the pilot level or in addition to that to keep the burners off on
their stoves and don't do any clothes drying and things of that nature all the way up the windward
side of the island to kahuku back down the north shore to wailua from wailua to wahiawa is out of
service and will remain out of service for some uh day or days to come we don't have the capacity
to provide the service to everyone so we're in effect taking turns and we are going to attempt
to try to keep you on as long as we can and only take outages when we have to but we're trying at
the same time to give everybody their turn as the evening comes on and as the load picks up as people
turn lights on and start to cook and use their water heaters i'm afraid that these rolling blackouts
are going to get more frequent and the time intervals are going to get shorter
and the board of water supply has issued an urgent advisory here on a wahoo urging that you use water
only for drinking and cooking the reason the water pumping system is dependent on electricity
and it's experiencing the same outages as everyone else this should last for just a few days
hurricane evil certainly dished up enough for emergency personnel to handle last night and today
but storm fighters and even the public have more problems with which to deal because of the technical
problems chris casey has a report defense six from civil defense over
here
this was the nerve center last night in oahu the civil defense command post from which a wide range
of emergency government and volunteer personnel received or relayed information in a desperate
effort to provide for human safety emergency services of the city and county the fire department
the police department do their normal things and they accept that they do more of those things
during a disaster such as this kept one watch back and we called another watch early so we had an
overlapping of watches we also took our specialized units and put them in blue and white cars and sent
them to area to our rural area where most of the problems were existing for instance solo bike
officers were out there the vice officers and detectives were in blue and white cars out in the
area they worked with us they have representatives in here and coordinate with us and respond to our
requirements along with other agencies such as public works state highways with their road crews
and that sort of thing but the system was not perfect there were problems in the operations
primarily emergency personnel seemed to agree in the transmission of information for the fire
department our problem on the windward side in particular was a breakdown in communications we
lost one of our transmitter stations on the call out for about an hour and it hampered our operations
a little bit and this is a very real problem of course and we just got a good taste of it last
night and it could be much worse if we had the full impact of a hurricane we had been very concerned
that the we would get the force of the hurricane on the Waianae coast and the south shore
and we were very very close to having to evacuate people in those areas we have been prepared if
that well we were prepared to do it however but we would have had monumental problems we're talking
about 30 some thousand people in the Waianae area that that might have had might have required
evacuation the news media made every attempt to keep the public informed news center four extended
their 9 30 newscast normally a half hour to two and a half hours but for those homes without
electricity to see the storm on tv radio was their only link with the outside world the flow of
information to those public information outlets however was sparse lack of information we had
some we didn't really hear a lot from the police department locally we had to make calls to the
police department but i'm sure they had their hands full uh the civil defense worked fairly well it
could have been better uh we got reports about once every two hours i was a little surprised
about that i think it should come in a little more rapidly than it did civil defense officials
moved from the response to the damage assessment stage of their operation today gradually closing
down the evacuation shelters set up by the red cross which housed some 1 000 evacuees overnight
on oahu civil defense officials say disaster assistance centers will be set up within the
next few days to offer information on possible assistance island residents can receive island
mayors eileen anderson and edwardo malafit will have to declare their counties to be in a disaster
state to open the door for a declaration by governor arioshi of a statewide disaster that
will possibly lead to assistance from the white house officials say announcements will be made
later this week about exactly where and when the assistance centers will be set up chris casey
chris casey new center four now due to the extra time we've devoted to storm coverage we will not
be able to have tonight's installment of larry price's in-depth series called guaranteed part
three of that series will air tomorrow evening part four on friday and the series will conclude
with the fifth installment on monday jim tipoff is at eight o'clock and tonight's volleyball game
between the uh and pacific has been postponed until 7 30 friday night that'll be at clem jim
tim lindsay and i bet you can't guess what we're going to have next more weather a weather report
but it's a good one so it's okay we do want to tell you that high wind warnings remain in effect
for haleakala on maui and mauna loa and mauna kea on the big island and high surf advisories are
in effect still for the north and west shores of all hawaiian islands but it should be mostly fair
and sunny across the state tomorrow a high near 80 and winds will be 15 to 25 miles per hour
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and dancing at its peak this has been an expanded coverage tonight as you probably have noticed
because we did have a great deal of video we wanted to show you of storm damage around the
state especially those graphic pictures from kawaii which were absolutely outstanding that gives you
a an idea of the devastation that was caused over there especially and of course on a wahoo also
but thank you for being with us and i'm glad we finally got a sports cast in too right you know
there's been so much activity going on we've forgotten to talk about rick's picks oh can you
believe that what about rick's pick i can't believe it rick's picks went 11 and three something to
brag about finally that's right he finally gets a good week and as soon as you get a good week we
got a hurricane and the hurricane overshadows everything i have to say rick really hung in
there last night though he was sports director but he was here till midnight helping some news
coordinating our news department you were a great help thank you as was all our staff as a matter
of fact i'm extremely impressed with the work that they did today so thanks for joining us and
don't forget we'll have another newscast coming along just after 9 30 tonight so hope you'll be
here for that thank you good evening good night