Wahiawa dam failure in progress or expected! Do not wait if you are in Haleiwa or Wahiawa. Get to higher ground now!
Posting because this hasn't hit the news yet. Wahiawa reservoir is currently failing or expected to fail. If you live or stay north shore, evacuate to higher ground NOW!!!
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Affected folks probably know, but: near Honolulu, Hawaii.
I didn't know it was near Honolulu, but I knew it was Hawaii from all the vowels :)
I figured it out at "north shore" (and then confirmed when I saw who posted it). Until that point, I thought it was somewhere outside the US.
Ah, well, that gets into a historical debate right there ;-)
I meant more outside the US. Like, uh... Samoa. Or Guam.
Fuck the President of Guam! :D
Not really near Honolulu. About an hour drive from Honolulu, on the North Shore. But same island (not Maui or Big Island)
I think a post like this would be more useful with some kind of geographic hint in the title:
Of course, best of all would be to post it to a Hawaii community, but I don't know if there is one.
If you are in Wahiawa, Waialua, or Haleiwa, EVACUATE NOW!!!
Can you put Hawaii in the post title?
Nah, they refuse.
I live on O'ahu (same island as these towns, but they are several miles away from where I live, on the North Shore). This is some serious stuff. I posted a few links over on my Mastodon account, but if you're interested to learn more about what's going on, please check out the Honolulu Civil Beat. They have several stories going on with excellent journalism--particularly an investigative story they did on this very dam that showed Dole (the pineapple company; also the family that led the overthrow of the Kingdom) has known for around FIFTY YEARS that this dam was unsafe but have kicked the can toward other entities to try and fix it rather than pay for it themselves.
EDIT: Link to Civil Beat's homepage. Probably the best journalistic outlet in Hawai'i: https://www.civilbeat.org/
https://www.kitv.com/news/local/flash-flood-evacuation-order-for-waialua-and-haleiwa/article_6a7b25ca-0534-4660-aba6-405c5a060a99.html
https://water.noaa.gov/gauges/wrsh1
I'm on mobile but does it look like the flood gauge stopped recording at 8:15 local time fo someone on desktop?
Seems to update every 15min?
Okay yeah it seems like a refresh delay. That's from almost an hour ago.
https://www.kitv.com/news/local/wahiaw-dam-evacuation-underway/article_b28d5d22-416c-4da4-af97-ddfc8cb9a460.html
Thanks for sharing