Downpour Staggers O‘ahu
"It was a night of fear for residents of Mākaha Valley Towers, after six hours of torrential rainfall shoved an avalanche of rock and mud into the back of a 20-story condominium building early yesterday.
The mudslide, fed by two converging waterfalls directly above Towers "F" and "G," overwhelmed a 10-foot-high retaining rock wall, stormed through the upper-level parking lot, buried or picked up about 50 cars and finally oozed to a stop against the second floor of the building.
Rocks and mud broke through the doors of the second-floor lobby."
Reference Cited
Bakutis, B. 1996. Downpour Staggers Oahu. Honolulu Advertiser. November 15, 1996. Honolulu, HI.
