06 Dec 2007 No Comments
Farrington Highway: Through My Eye-Phone
First off, check out my weather widget. Rain, rain… and more rain. Looks like the sun’s coming back on Monday, though!
All buses except the 403 in Nanakuli were running today, so I took the C bus to town. Boy, did I underestimate the traffic — 3 1/2 hours to get to town! (It usually takes a little over an hour.) Two of those hours were spent crawling along the five-mile stretch of Farrington Highway, from Ma’ili and Nanakuli. And along the way, I took pics, of course. Most of them are kind of dark because of the weather, and I’m too lazy to work my Photoshop magic.
A downed utility pole in Ma’ili. One of the first ones I saw.
Look at where the pole snapped… like a twig!
Hawaiian Electric trucks — they’re everywhere!
These trucks are lifting a shattered piece of a utility pole.
The Wai’anae Mountain Range is behind those houses, in the distance… but you can’t seem them in this weather!
Fastop/Freedom Gas Station in Nanakuli. The roof was busted after a utility pole crashed through it. (The pole’s fixed in this picture.)
It’s raining, it’s pouring, Liberty’s not snoring!
By the time I got to town, my marketing class — the only class I had today — was over, but I still had an advertising club meeting at 2:30. And I just took over the ad club’s presidency, so… of course I went. So did my adviser and three other members, and two of them are officers. Wonderful. The traffic coming back into Wai’anae was bad, but not as bad as this morning’s… took about an hour to get through Nanakuli. Hopefully, those poles get fixed soon and the people there will get their power back! And traffic will smooth over!