Doin’ the Flossie Fizzle

Doin’ the Flossie Fizzle was Originally Posted on August 16, 2007 by lavarock

As you may know by now, Flossie, the hurricane came and went with little fanfare.

Although Hawaii was prepared and the strike zone was almost directly at Hilo on the east side of the Big Island, we were spared wind and rain. Here is how.

First, the storm began to slow and the winds diminish as it hit cooler water. If you have ever played “rock, paoper, scissors) then you will understand what happened in a contest between a giant mountain and a bunch of wind and rain. The mountain won!

Actually, the hurricane slowed near Hilo and upper winds pulled the top part of the storm northward and the trade winds pulled the bottom of the storm to the south. It soon broke apart and the island got very little of the storm.

In fact, here on the west coast we didn’t have any rain or wind until this afternoon and then, just a bit of rain.

While Hilo was poised for the storm, we had a beautiful sunset here on the west coast. KHON TV on Oahu was asking people to send weather photos of the storm. Since we didn’t have a storm here, I took sunset photos. It appears there were so few storm photos that I was amazed t ohear that the channel opted for my sunset photo for their 6pm news. I missed seeing it, but then again, I have the original

Another 15 seconds of fame!