My Summer Vacation: Storm Watch

A little after 6:30 this morning the Tesla app put the solar power generating system in to Storm Watch mode; there is a National Weather Service high wind warning due to Hurricane Dora approaching the islands. When I woke up earlier, around 6 am, there did not seem to be a lot of wind. But closer to 8 the wind really picked up; there was also a brief drizzle in between. Later in the morning I found the wind had blown over the koaiʻe sapling; I moved it into the garage until the high wind warning is over.

The high wind warning was extended.

Six minutes before sunrise; not much wind.

One hour & 15 minutes after sunrise; a lot more wind now!

Just before 8 am I got the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense emergency alert text about the high wind warning. When I clicked on the link, a message about Hurricane Dora causing higher than normal winds in our area popped up. The winds will be high but not near hurricane levels.

Major Hurricane Dora maintained maximum wind speeds of 130 mph throughout the day. By the end of the day Dora was about 565 miles south-southeast of Hilo & moving westerly at about 23 mph. Category 4 Hurricane Dora it forecast to gradually weaken over the next several days.

Today Tropical Storm Eugene lost a bunch of speed & ended the day as Post-Tropical Cyclone Eugene. In the morning Eugene had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, by the afternoon that had decreased to 35 mph. Eugene also was turning northerly so will not be coming in to the Central Pacific region.

Tropical Depression Six-East has disappeared off the radar. But a new disturbance several hundred miles south of the southwest coast of Mexico has appeared. Forecasters say there is a 30% chance of it becoming more organized & forming a tropical cyclone in the next week.

Two of the feral cats showed up for breakfast this morning. Usually it's only Olomea, but today Hahai also came to breakfast. Olomea is ʻAlani & Paʻipaʻi's mother & Hahai is Hoʻokoa & ʻŌhuna's mother. I have seen Mom Cat & Holoi in Jessie's yard, but they have not come over to eat here in a couple of months. Jessie leaves food out for the baby pigs so they go & eat from that dish.

L to R: Hahai, Olomea.

I might be volunteering for another group. This morning I attended the initial meeting of the North Kohala Community Development Plan (NKCDP) Advisory Group's culture & history subcommittee. I will attend a couple more meetings to see if I will commit to working on this subcommittee. I like the NKCDP's policy that "North Kohala shall be regarded as a cultural & historical preservation community." I also like the goals & the general attitude of the group that the community wants to keep Kohala Kohala. John, the chair of the NKCDP Advisory Group, also told the subcommittee that "development" doesn't necessarily mean constructing buildings, "development" can also mean not putting up new buildings. He said many people around the island regard North Kohala as the way old Hawai'i Island was before & that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

From the NKCDP document.

Brainstorming what group would like Future Kohala to include.

Today was the last jaboticaba harvest for this flower set; this tree produces 2 or 3 crops a year. Today I picked almost 15 pounds; I could not reach the rest of the fruit. The total harvest for this crop was just under 142 pounds. Now I need to do a little pruning to make the next harvest easier & also for the health of the tree; there were a lot of crossing branches that hampered harvesting.