Laie Storm Watch 2006
This winter has been nothing less than crazy when it has come to the amounts of rain we've had here in Hawaii, and more specifically in Laie.
I have this theory about Hawaii, and so far its been conclusively true. Winters in Hawaii alternate between heavy rain seasons and heavy surf seasons, and this year just further proved my theory. It alternates back and forth like so;
Rainy Winter (winter '02-'03) -> Rest Winter (Winter '03-'04) -> Surf Winter (Winter '04-'05) -> Rainy Winter (Winter '05-'06)-> Rest Winter -> Surf Winter -> etc...
This rain season is by far the gnarliest one I have ever seen, and the community agrees. They claim this has been the rainiest season they have had in a decade. The last part of February of all of March has been covered by clouds. We've experienced weeks at a time without seeing the sun, which drives a little me crazy at times. The surf is garbage during that time on the east shore because its too stormy, so that eliminates a lot of normal surf time. And getting rained on almost every morning going to school or work sucks even more!
On March 2nd we had 2" of rain a hour (after it raining for three days straight), so they closed the school because of the flooding that was threatening the homes of local residents, which I think is somewhat the fault of the great minds that decided to build the town of Laie in a swamp below sea level (what is it with Mormons and swamps?). This meant a "rain day" for the town of Laie (as opposed to a snow day for the rest of the world), where students and community members alike got to go out to the field in front of BYU to play football in knee deep rain runoff.
My friends and I took it another step further and brought over an ocean kayak that we paddled all over the field and some of the rain gutters as well. After a short time, the kayak was overthrown by local kids who wanted a turn, which was fine. We played football out on the field for probably 2 hours, which is quite a work out when you have to lift your leg up high to get it out of the water to run. Tackling was encouraged and praticed during these games, thanks to all the water.
We had a great time to say the least.
Things are finally starting to mellow up now. We've had a few nice days and it seems like the weather is only getting better. Finally!
Coming Soon: 311
I have this theory about Hawaii, and so far its been conclusively true. Winters in Hawaii alternate between heavy rain seasons and heavy surf seasons, and this year just further proved my theory. It alternates back and forth like so;
Rainy Winter (winter '02-'03) -> Rest Winter (Winter '03-'04) -> Surf Winter (Winter '04-'05) -> Rainy Winter (Winter '05-'06)-> Rest Winter -> Surf Winter -> etc...
This rain season is by far the gnarliest one I have ever seen, and the community agrees. They claim this has been the rainiest season they have had in a decade. The last part of February of all of March has been covered by clouds. We've experienced weeks at a time without seeing the sun, which drives a little me crazy at times. The surf is garbage during that time on the east shore because its too stormy, so that eliminates a lot of normal surf time. And getting rained on almost every morning going to school or work sucks even more!
On March 2nd we had 2" of rain a hour (after it raining for three days straight), so they closed the school because of the flooding that was threatening the homes of local residents, which I think is somewhat the fault of the great minds that decided to build the town of Laie in a swamp below sea level (what is it with Mormons and swamps?). This meant a "rain day" for the town of Laie (as opposed to a snow day for the rest of the world), where students and community members alike got to go out to the field in front of BYU to play football in knee deep rain runoff.
My friends and I took it another step further and brought over an ocean kayak that we paddled all over the field and some of the rain gutters as well. After a short time, the kayak was overthrown by local kids who wanted a turn, which was fine. We played football out on the field for probably 2 hours, which is quite a work out when you have to lift your leg up high to get it out of the water to run. Tackling was encouraged and praticed during these games, thanks to all the water.
We had a great time to say the least.
Clair & Clairissa ready to go:
BYU Lake:
Clairissa, Me, and Clair:
Downstream:
Flood Prevention on Campus:
Things are finally starting to mellow up now. We've had a few nice days and it seems like the weather is only getting better. Finally!
Coming Soon: 311
posted by William at 11:36 AM
3 Comments:
Wow, that's crazy. I don't recall monsoon season ever being that bad when I was in Korea-- worst I got was a couple umbrellas destroyed ;)
Those pics so remind me of the local park where I grew up that would flood whenever there was heavy rain, people would be out there in kayaks too, heh. I'm sure it's warmer there, though.
Wow! Sounds like fun times in paradise. Billy, the pics are fun and so are your comments! I hope the surf gets better. :)
Reminds me of some good times I had there too. I remember the day school got cancelled so we could prepare for Hurricane Iniki by sand bagging half the day. :)
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