Well we didn't quite get a direct hit with Hurricane Lala last week (there's some debate if it technically made landfall on Hawaii (Big) Island since the eye was right on the southern edge) amd the storm was just over the line from Tropical Storm into Cat 1, but we did get a fair share of rain and wind.
Main storm impact here on Oahu was overnight, I was at home, could def hear lots of gusting from my apt, but as far as I could tell my building never lost power or water or had any significant breakage or anything...
Went into work the next morning (regular shift) Guys getting off were up all night, cutting downed trees and the like. Something like 160 pending calls Dept wide on the CAD for downed trees, blown roofs, wires down, etc They slowly circulated thru the system, we were getting calls that had been on the board for 4-5 hours.
My station's area didn't seem too bad, our shift we only cut one downed tree (others had like 5 or 6 or more) but we did get toned out for a water rescue when a couple of the local junkyard workers tried to kayak across the flooded stream and got stuck on the other side (it was ultimately decided that since they had reached the other side and were safe, they could shelter in place until things receeded...)
We did have to go on the emergency backup generator all day though. Only a couple lights and app bay door, one office computer, no A/C that was fun lol)
One of our nursing homes warned us their emergency generator would run out of fuel during the day, and their plan to deal with dozens of ventilator dependent patients was to call 911 for us to BVM them in that case -_-
Yeah that got calls to the Chief and they arranged something (I think an emergency fuel delivery) and got ready the riot act about appropriate backup planning.... we never had to go there thankfully
Power came back on maybe 12 hours after it was lost, our generator was ¾ tank left, so nice to know we can plan for 2 days max fuel...
Responded to our 3rd/4th in area a couple times because everyone was busy, ended up getting no sleep because when the power came back on in the evening, all the fire alarms got triggered so we were up all night chasing those down ugh...
All in all, not tooooo bad for a Hurricane, most of the actual damage was Big Island.
But now we have another Tropical Storm forecasted to arrive this weekend (amd I'm working again, yay). Luckily this smaller storm is forecasted to stay well south of us, so we shouldn't get more than rain.... Knock on wood lol
