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Tornado Hits Lanikai, Enchanted Lake Subdivision
Water Spout Moves Ashore, Damages Homes
Catherine Cruz KITV4 News Reporter
POSTED: 6:07 pm HST March 9, 2012
UPDATED: 7:22 pm HST March 9, 2012
HONOLULU -- The National Weather Service says the twister began on the water, and made its way on land after 7a.m. cutting traveling a mile and a half inland.
Sara Mai Kui recalled how powerful the water spout looked as she watched it from the Kailua boat ramp. She described the water coming off the shore creating what looked like a bowl of water. But not long after it made landfall, and she thought..
"Oh, no! There's going to be another tornado, and it’s going to take somebody's house," Mai Kui said.
The twister came up on Mokulua Drive destroying a vacation rental. The winds pulled off up part of the roof and blew it into a neighbor’s yard, where it sits- up in an ironwood tree.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30649791/detail.html#ixzz1oh0oGbAP
Catherine Cruz KITV4 News Reporter
POSTED: 6:07 pm HST March 9, 2012
UPDATED: 7:22 pm HST March 9, 2012
HONOLULU -- The National Weather Service says the twister began on the water, and made its way on land after 7a.m. cutting traveling a mile and a half inland.
Sara Mai Kui recalled how powerful the water spout looked as she watched it from the Kailua boat ramp. She described the water coming off the shore creating what looked like a bowl of water. But not long after it made landfall, and she thought..
"Oh, no! There's going to be another tornado, and it’s going to take somebody's house," Mai Kui said.
The twister came up on Mokulua Drive destroying a vacation rental. The winds pulled off up part of the roof and blew it into a neighbor’s yard, where it sits- up in an ironwood tree.
Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30649791/detail.html#ixzz1oh0oGbAP
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...my sister was saying the storm has turned around. I guess it sort of came from an odd wind. Feel free to post any questions you have in the group! Aloha. 