Monday, January 23, 2023

It's a beautiful day but the ocean shore is pretty scary right now!

 Unless you are a very experienced surfer and know where all the rocks are where you are surfing you shouldn't likely go too near the ocean today. 

So, Tourists who aren't familiar with what a King Tide can do in these conditions should especially be careful you aren't swept off rocks by flooding or sneaker waves or waves coming up over roads along the ocean or rocks or seaweed or logs being thrown up on shore on roads and other places.

I have noticed a lot of the earth and ice plant have been destroyed or washed out to sea from storms so far. Rocks have come all the way across the ocean roads along with seaweed and sand and logs of various sizes have broken wooden fences on roads next to the ocean near where I live. One amazing video of golfers along the northern Coast videoed a wave coming onto shore where they were golfing and burying 3 golf carts in water about 2 to 3 feet deep. I wonder how much trouble it was to get those golf carts out of there or whether the electrical systems shorted out from so much water and wouldn't work anymore? However, Tesla Cars that are all electric are so watertight that they can float through water with the wheels propelling them for a short time. I have seen videos of the Tesla model S do this by the way. But, eventually a car will usually sink even electric ones if the water comes in the doors or windows through cracks and sinks the vehicle.

I can remember a storm I was in on the way to Hana Maui in my Ford Window Van around 1989 in the fall or winter where I was afraid my whole family was going to die from a storm with water and rocks coming down to our right while we were heading home to Hana Maui where my family lived then. I was new to living on the island and locals had told me not to drive that day to Wailuku to shop for food because it was cheaper than buying food in Hana then. But, we almost were washed into the sea from the storm and the rear wheels on the van began to float so I had no traction as we were being pushed over the cliff into the ocean there. I had my whole family jump up and down to get traction over where the rear wheels were so we were not washed into the sea that night. I never drove in a big storm along that road ever again. I had learned my lesson of just how dangerous and potentially fatal the road to Hana can be on Maui. As my family jumped up and down to get the rear wheels to touch the road for traction because the rear end was floating, water was running across like a river where my feet and gas and brake pedal were from the right side of the car and through the cracks where the door and floor met from right to left. Luckily, we made it out of there in one piece as a family and survived to tell about it.

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