Looking good! Great break in smoke! Clarissa has a good tongue cook here as does Mick. Both are in the heads to toes forum.
When you first said trees I was hoping he wasn't collecting the Albizia trees for his house. I built a 60' long log trellis out of the Ohia trees. That's one tough tree. Logged them off a property in Puna, Hauled to the house we were working on at Hapuna Prince Beach Resort. I couldn't keep up with the sharpening of my chain blades!The past three weeks Civil Defense has been putting out updates for the people affected by this storm. There are still people that don't have their power or phone lines restored; but it's very few (99% have been restored). The CD has been advising people where to get water, ice, power up their cell phones, etc...
So, today they start off with a new natural disaster emergency warning: the area hardest hit by the storm has a lava flow heading right at them! I'm not making this up!!! It's a mile and a half from the people that still don't have power or phone lines restored. They tracked it at 100 meters closer yesterday and if it continues that way it's going in three months that subdivision of houses won't exist anymore.
On the bright side: a co-worker that lives on that side of the island was showing pictures of trees that he was scooping up. I ask him what he's doing with all of the trees? Well turns out he has a portable sawmill and he's cutting lumber up so he can build his own house. So I ask him if he can make planks for smoking? Of course he can! Guava planks, ohia planks, kiawe planks and waiwi planks are in my near future...