Unusual conditions on the Big Island

Somewhere in what would be typical Hilo weather there appears to be an unusually high amount of news reporters sighted in the area. Most have been spotted around grocery stores and they seem to be attracted to purchasers of bottled water and batteries, items most everyone in Puna buy on a regular basis being that they are on catchment and live where blackouts frequently occur.

The one thing most common in all the sightings were questions about the current rainy conditions. The reporters seem to attribute this to a weather system to the south of here but fail to realize that the real cause is the annual Labor Day motorcycle run and Weekend Drag Races. A large part of the population relocate themselves to the Kona area, where rainfall is least likely, every year just to enjoy the weekend. Hotel rooms on the other side of the island are sold out as far as a month in advance in anticipation for the Labor Day Weekend. Perhaps the reporters took advantage of the situation and found really low rates on this side, but did not find any other intersting story to cover.

Comments

I'm glad to hear you're OK, Tom, but your judgment seems to be impaired; "sex" as the category? ;)

.. what else are we to do on a rainy day? :p

That said, I'd have categorized this under "Nap." Er, if that were a category. (And: Hi Ali!)

Rain in Hilo? Boy. Notify the Associated Press. Weird thing is, I remember once at UH Hilo, classes were cancelled because of heavy rains. That's like Sahara Desert University shutting down because of excessive sand. Or something.

It's really windy here in Honolulu, and there's threatening grey clouds in the distance, but so far, so good.

Flying out of O'ahu on Monday morning was worse than flying into Hilo. There was some mean turbulence, but when I got home it didn't look much different than any other rainy day in town. Even Ka'u and South Kona wasn't much different than usual.

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