We left the house early this morning in an attempt to beat the rain. Yes, we try to walk, rain or shine.
Today it didn’t work.
The storm was still hanging offshore when we got to the Kaaawa Fire Station and crossed Kamehameha Highway to Swanzy Beach Park.
But we didn’t get far before the wind kicked up, signaling what was to come. We initially agreed to try reaching the next block before making the “go-no go” decision, but almost immediately first rain hit. We had just enough time to cross the street and head for home before the real rain caught up with us. Luckily, at that point we only had a few blocks to go.
We got home wet, but comfortable that turning around and cutting our walk short was the right decision.
And, yes, it’s still raining.
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The following is an intriguing article from Civil Beat on City Council member Tom Berg’s assertion that west Oahu should secede from the C&C of Honolulu.
http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2011/11/07/13608-berg-west-oahu-should-secede-from-honolulu/
West Oahu has become the dumping ground of the island, Berg argues. But this is possible because west Oahu does not vote like the rest of Oahu. So one would expect secession to be far fetched politically precisely because people on the west side do not assert themselves; if they were capable of asserting themselves, there would be no need to secede in the first place.
Phil Lee and Keith Rollman offer divergent takes on this, and I suspect the truth lies in the middle.
Lee claims that the west side is already getting the shaft and can only win.
Rollman exaggerates the cost, I think, since he argues that the west side would have to recreate emergency services and basic services (he claims that taxes for the new county would be triple of what they already are). I would guess that those costs would be expected to remain the same, since the infrastructure is already in place and would be simply given over to the new county. Creating a new bureaucracy would be the real hidden cost I would assume, since it would probably not be possible to simply reassign come of the current computers and staff to a new county. That would be an initial start up cost, however.