Hurricane Lane-August 2018
Hurricane “Lane" started life as most storms do heading this direction off the coast of Mexico and began it’s general march westward toward the Hawaii islands the week of August 12th. The local news updated the storm’s progress and Lissette and I noted the location and general trajectory westward and toward our island nightly. I have come to doubt the meteorological community when it comes to hurricane predictions as they seem to cry “wolf” too often in order to bring our eyes and minds back to their news stations nightly it seems. In this case my attention quickly became more acute when I saw the storm was predicted to develop into a category 5 storm with 180 mph winds and the predicted path could possibly take it under our southern tip then “hook” upward and charge the western coastline where we live. Potentially, this major hurricane could have affected the eastern side then travel up the western side of Hawaii island then damage the other major Hawaiian islands in it’s path.
In my 17 years on Hawaii ...
