Dam Burst on Kauai

[1stwahine]

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Arial is a font. Aerial is from the air. They ought to make journalists go to school.

Theres too much articles for me to be looking who wrote Arial. Kindly direct me into the said article so I can "see" for myself.

Jornalists do go to school as far as I know. It's a hard job. I admire each and every one of them!

Nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes.

Btw: I am not a Journalist! I am a BLOGGER!

Auntie Lynn

[Miulang]

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More photos of the damage that were included in the Kauai newspaper. It doesn't look like much in the aftermath but I'm sure it was scary to have that wall of water come down what normally is a quiet little stream.

Miulang

[sinjin]

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Theres too much articles for me to be looking who wrote Arial. Kindly direct me into the said article so I can "see" for myself.
Auntie Lynn

On the link to KHNL that GM posted.

Pet peeve of mine as I work with aerial photography every day.

[Glen Miyashiro]

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Arial is a font. Aerial is from the air. They ought to make journalists go to school.

True. And neither has anything to do with area, as in "the areal extent of the damage".

[pzarquon]

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KHON reported at the end of its 6 p.m. newscast that the body of a woman has been found. That's the second body, after the first was found soon after the breach yesterday.

Meanwhile, the names of the seven missing have been officially released, including a young boy (Rowan Fehring-Dingwall) and a pregnant woman (Christina Macnees).

[Miulang]

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Computer model simulations of the dam break at Kaloko in different formats. Pretty impressive. And as Lee Cataluna notes in her column today, a very similar situation happened in Anahola in 1991 and we still don't have any better system to protect people than back then, even though 4 peoples' lives were lost in that tragedy.

"...What has been learned?

The old-timers will tell you there's no match for the will of water. It goes where it wants, it takes what it takes. It will bring down mountains, uproot forests and break hearts. Perhaps the best we can do is to have a healthy measure of fear for its potential and watch where we put our roads and houses, where we travel and where we sleep...."

Miulang

[dick]

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Still in Lihue, transmitting more photos... but it's nice to see blue sky and sun... I just hope it lasts!

[alohabear]

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The BIG thing I noticed regarding this Kauai flood is that on the Broadcast news or print, I rarely heard a reponse from the Kauai Mayor(once in KITV) or Kauai Civil Defense. It was always from the State that we got news from. Does Kauai have it's own civil defense office? If so, where are they on the news?

[dick]

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>>>Does Kauai have it's own civil defense office? If so, where are they on the news
<<<

They do indeed... I was there everyday. It's in the same building as the police station. Kinda by the airport...

See: http://starbulletin.com/2006/03/17/news/story02.html scroll down and there's a photo I shot of the inside of the Emergency Operations Center. Top notch place, probably the best in the state...

Most of what came out of the daily pressers the mayor held was just numbers and updates of what was happening. Better stuff was happening on the streets, so that's probably why not too much was printed (with us, anyway...)

[Glen Miyashiro]

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In this article in the Honolulu Advertiser, Pflueger's attorney is claiming that his client has no responsibility for maintenance of the Kaloko dam because of a contractual agreement which assigns the maintenance responsibility to another company. On the other hand, the law clearly states that the property owner is the one responsible. I'm no attorney, but if a contract says one thing and the law says another, doesn't the law always trump the contract?

[Adri]

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Yes, the law trumps private contracts. If the contract is between Pflueger and a third party, it might be that Pflueger would be ultimately responsible and that the contract might give Pflueger the right to try to get indemnified or reimbursed by the third party or give Pflueger some claim against the third party for not fulfilling the contract. If the contract is between the State and a third party then Pflueger might be on more solid ground.

[MixedPlateBroker]

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Took them long enough: Grand jury probes dam breach.

At least a dozen people were called to testify at the grand jury, including the property manager and numerous employees of retired auto dealer James Pflueger, who owns Ka Loko Dam.
Also called to testify was former Kauai Mayor Maryanne Kusaka, who said yesterday that her appearance was rescheduled but no date has been set.