After a flurry of heavy rains and wind this week, causing flash flood warnings and emergency proclamations, Friday afternoon in Honolulu perked up to blue clouded skies.
ICYMI: By midweek, the state and City and County of Honolulu were cleaning up the Ala Wai Canal of debris from last weekend's storm, and yesterday, the state issued an emergency proclamation through Feb. 3 about the potential hazardous conditions, while more than 2,000 residents on O‘ahu lost power, per Hawaiian Electric’s outage summary. Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi also signed an emergency proclamation relating to the weather.
On Thursday at 5 p.m., a fallen tree closed both directions of Keeamoku Street between Kapi‘olani Blvd. and Makaloa St., according to The Weather Forecast Office of Honolulu. The National Weather Service said, "Heavy rain and thunderstorms will continue over the Big Island today and then taper off this evening into tonight. Fair trade wind weather builds in for the weekend into next week."
A fallen tree on the sidewalk of Pauahi Tower along Bishop Street had been taped off Friday. City officials did not immediately respond to Aloha State’s Daily request for an update.
Trees were also down at Diamond Head Beach Park.
The City emailed a statement Friday morning that the Honolulu Zoo had opened, as well as five of six municipal golf courses. “The Ala Wai Golf Course is closed at this time because it is one of the customers that had been impacted by a water main break on Kapahulu Ave.,” Deputy Communications Director Ian Scheuring told ASD by email.
All Honolulu Botanical Gardens were reopened Friday, while The Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve remains closed, officials posted on Facebook.
Kelsey Kukaua Medeiros can be reached at kelsey@alohastatedaily.com.
