Eselle Has Passed!

This is Leilani Street -- the central thoroughfare in and out of our subdivision.

Here is some typical damage we have seen around our neighborhood, many big trees down, and broken power lines.  Many reports from neighbors of trees falling on houses, on porches, on power poles, destroying water catchment systems and so forth.  Fortunately, our emergency crews are great and nearly everyone owns a chainsaw or two.  Neighbors just across the street have about 15 trees down -- some landed on their house.  Our next door neighbor lost two giant tarps that protect the plants he sells nationally and internationally. 

This is very minor compared to many residents' damage.

While there are lots of branches broken off, and many small trees down, we were fortunate that the only whole tree that came down was a tiny one by comparison to the above photo, and although it pretty much mangled the shade house, most of the plants survived OK including lots of beets, lettuce, bok choy, as well as dozens of plants in pots ready to go in the ground.

What is most amazing is that it MISSED our beautiful "mother tree" planted in honor of Phil's mother, Margaret who passed away recently at the amazing age of 96.

Falling tree missed this one by 6 " !!

It appears that the second hurricane, Julio, will be missing us, but most of the other island are on high alert.  We are running our generator periodically to keep the refrigerator and freezer food safe, and we have pantry food to last us 3-4 weeks at least.  The dogs did very well despite the volume of the storm.



AND -- the TIKI PARTY that we planned for this evening to celebrate Leo birthdays and our neighbors who live on Luana IS STILL HAPPENING!  It take a lot more than a hurricane to stop LEO's from having a good time.

We've already had several neighbors check in on us to see if we were OK, and that's a really nice feeling.