January 31st on which I dropped Brad off at the airport and then went out to the Green Waste dump to see a spontaneous combustion of green waste. Several water trucks were called in to put out the blaze. It smelled quite like biochar... A guess the heat of the massive pile had been stoked by the 50 mph winds and there it was...
So, they asked me to come back in a few hours when they had things under control if I wanted my mulch. I went back into town and waited for the Sears warehouse to open. Read some Mimamsa philosophy while I waited for the forklifts to get cranked up...
Unloaded the cardboard back in Huelo and then headed in, this time got the load of mulch before going on to class. Almost fell asleep under the fluro's once or twice, and even though I had to keep it under 45mph most of the way home because of the crazy winds and wet roads, I made it home. A long day...
Lorinda reported that Marshall's Costco garage tent had imploded in the near hurricane winds. Ace was able to borrow tarps from Jim to save the day, though on refelection, with worse winds coming, perhaps Marshall should have taken Lorinda up on the offer to shelter in the barn with us until the storm blows itself out and then replace the tarps. Anyway, we'll see. Apparently it was one of those scenes of human cooperation the face of diversity with Greg Jones and several others who just happened to be here at the time helping to get it tied down...
Dorothy, my history teacher says that in her 45 years on Maui, she has seen it blow this hard a few times before, but not in such a sustained manner. Interesting...
Guess I better go unload the mulch so I can head back to the airport to pick up Sally. This will be my 5th visit to OGG in 8days. (!)