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People Can Only Stare at Massive Wave And Realizes It’s Too Late For Them To Run From it

Uncategorized Oct 11, 2022

People Can Only Stare at Massive Wave And Realizes It’s Too Late For Them To Run From it

For more than a quarter of a century, the South Shore of Hawaii has experienced “the highest surf in more than 25 years.” According to Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, Diamond Head’s wave faces reached a height of 25 feet.

Dillon Murphy remembers the scary incident, but what he can specifically not get out of his mind is how the wedding cake survived the massive tidal waves that devastated Hawaii last month.

According to KHNL-TV in Honolulu, the massive waves caused flooding and damaged houses and properties in Keauhou on the island of Hawaii.

One of the residents, Isabella Sloane, said, “The current and waves got really big around 4 to 5 p.m. and didn’t calm down until around 10:45 p.m. My condo was hit the first time and flooded everything. Condos down the way from mine were completely wiped out and damaged really badly. Thankfully, everyone is safe.”

Melanie Llanes of Ocean View also shared that her development’s parking lot “was just like a river.” She said, “At one point, the waves were so big, everyone in the pool was kind of cheering and applauding. They thought it was really cool and it was at first. And then it got a little scary towards the end.”

In Kona, Murphy and his wife, Riley, were celebrating their wedding when these massive waves came and shocked everyone. Dillon said. “We were kind of right at the moment where we were going to start moving a couple of things and, yeah, this big wall basically just showed up. And luckily there was no food in any of the containers, the cake luckily made it. But we did end up getting some good pictures with waves splashing up, and the ceremony was beautiful.”

Riley Murphy adds, “We didn’t have our dance floor, but nobody seemed to mind. At the end of the night we were all dancing in the mud and it was amazing. Maybe even more memorable than if it hadn’t happened.” She adds, “And like Dillon was saying, we were so worried about the remnants of Darby and like, ‘Are we going to get rainfall?’ But never really took into account that the high surf might impact our wedding as well. The show still went on and it was a really, really fun night.”

But despite the scary experience, Murphy said that there was a lesson in the wave’s surprise visit. She said, “And just the analogy of, you know, life and storms hit. And it’s just, it’s so important to come together and to have all of our family and our loved ones there and it just made it very special.”

Sometimes, things happen unexpectedly. According to Chief Meteorologist Chris Brenchley of the Honolulu office of the National Weather Service, multiple elements came together to produce such enormous waves. He said, “Waves over 12 or 15 feet, those become extremely big and really rare to have. It’s the largest it’s been in several decades.”

Despite the difficulty of clearly tying climate change to one-off events like these, Brenchley argued that the earth is warming and it can greatly affect such incidents. That’s something that all of us should definitely ponder upon.