Of the 16 numbers called today, I got one on the O line. The other one got lost in the middle. It's OK. It was not wanting to play Bingo anyway.
Weather wise, we have had rains for at least a week now. Two days ago, it was pouring heavily onto the Ko'olau mountain range, the bigger one of the two mountain ranges on Oahu. All that water seeked lower ground through the existing streams which all end in the ocean. Naturally, right? However, if a huge amount of moisture laden clouds decide to empty themselves on the mountain tops, the quiet streams would swell into ferocious vessels of water, gaining speed and force as they roar down the mountain slopes. By the time they reach coastal communities, they cause flash flood, tearing down everything in their new path and taking out to sea. We lost at least one person in that swift rolling water. There were so much debris in the chocolate water. Someone heard a scream, saw a raised arm and that was it. The water moved so very fast that it would have been very tough to rescue. Many properties near the streams sustained heavy damage. The saddest thing is that we are in a pandemic and high unemployment. These rural communities mostly relied on homegrown stuff for food. Everything was gone with the mud! And whatever housing units that survived the flash flood were soaked in that muddy water. The weather man says that more rain is expected now into the next week. Although it's not forecasted to be as much as a couple days ago, the ground is so saturated that mud slides are very possible with even a medium size rain.
As you can see, we get all kinds of visitors to the islands, including the overwhelming and unwanted varieties.