The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-11-09
Falling Barometer Last Night In
dicates Continuance Of Heavy
Pour For Today
HoNoLULUS MAXIMUM
COMES IN The EVENING
kalihi Valley Has Hardest In
Afternoon When Little
Stream Is Torrent %,

Fort Shafter was flooded by a VIC.
lent rainstorm yesterday afternoon.
There were heavy rains elsewhere on
Oahu, but nothing was reported so
severe as that of Kalihi valley. In
Honolulu the gauge of the United
States weather Office in the Young
building showed .l6 in ten minutes,
fIom eight-forty.fve ITO eight -ffty.iive
o clock last night. This is more than
one-tenth the whole precipitation Of
A falling barometer last night indi.
Gated more rain today.
Fifty Feet Wide
A violent rain storm, one of the
worst Fort Shafter has seen, descended
upon Kalihi Valley about two thirty
yesterday afternoon. The storm prac.
tically was a cloud-burst and flooded
the post AMI vicinity. The little stream
in the gulch between the main post
and the cantonment became n torrent
six to eight feet deep and in places
fifty feet wide.
First to go was the foo. bridge over
the stream. This was> carried about
thirty feet down stream and landed on
some of the boulders. The concrete
bridge near the stone-crusher was I'M
der ten inches of water at the top Of
the coping, giving about three feet Of
water above the road-bed. II is not
known whether the new electric pump
in the gulch has been badly damaged;
fortunately the steam pump has just
been repaired, so that there is no i'm.
mediate danger of a water shortage.
Cantonment Cut Of
Many families were separated by
the flood, some members being in the
main post while others were in tho
cantonment, which was for a while cut
off entirely from the main post. The
bus of the Rapid Transit Company
was unable to 60 through the gulch, as
it was feared that the concrete road
bridge was undermined and unsafe for
so heavy a vehicle; for the rest of
the afternoon the terminus of the bus
was the headquarters building. About
FIVE o clock The waters subsidized enough
for the quarteFmaster to start running
the old bus drawn by the mules, and
the marooned ones were able to return
to their homes.
Many of the buildings in the canton.
ment were flooded, and considerable
damage was done. The sewers were
unable to carry of the unusual amount
of water and became clOgged up, bring.
ing the reflse to the surface and dis
tributing it over the ground. Fortu-
nately, before darkness came, the rain
had moderated to such an extent that
the sewers were able to take care Of
the flow, thus doing away with the
danger of causing an epidemic of sick,
ness. The money value of the damage
can not be estimated for a few days,
but 1t will amount to a considerable
sum.
The aerodOme was put out OF business
by the food and the program scheduled
for last night had to be postponed.
.16 Inches In Ten Minutes
Andrew NJ. Hamrick, meteorological,
said that there was n precipitation of
.l6 inches in ten minutes, from eight
forty.fve clock to eight fifty five last
night; .2S inches in forty minutes, be.
ginning at eight-forty five, and .33
inches from eight clock to nine-forty-
five. Yesterdays rain in Honolulu was
heavier in the evening, as the fall be.
tween eight o'clock in the morning
and eight clock last evening was only
IA inches The maximum ton minutes
fall for October was 90; for Septem.
Der .l6.
The fall for the first eight days of
November, up to last night, was 1873
inches. The fall for October, was A;
the mean for October is l.S0; the mean
for the first eight days of November is
1.02. The mean for November is 4 90;
and, during this month, the average
temperature is 2.lO degrees cooler than
that of October,