The Maui Chapter of the Hawaii Society of Professional Engineers has selected the Keanae Road Safety Improvements project as the winner of its 2021 Project of t
Take the Winding Highway to Hana
Just as the queasiness in my stomach from the continuous onslaught of curves and cutbacks along the narrow uphill road began to subside, we rounded yet another 180-degree bend. The first waterfall with whipped-cream waters dripping down deep-creviced cleavages appeared by the roadside, its beauty washing away all my remaining reservations. It was the first of many such waterfalls we were to encounter.
Such is the road to Hana, which traverses the northern coast of Maui in Hawaii, from the rustic village of Paia to its destination at the eastern tip. While only 52 miles long, this series of twists, turns, dips and dives can take up to three hours to negotiate. But the ever-present views of lush greenery and ocean blues, vistas of rock and white water foaming up over the shores, and waterfalls bubbling over craggy cliffs are well worth the daylong adventure.
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Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino delivers a virtual State of the County address on Tuesday night in a prerecorded message from the Maui Preparatory Academyâs Bozich Center. AKAKU screenshot
Calling the people of Maui County “our greatest strength” over a year of health and economic challenges, Mayor Michael Victorino highlighted the organizations who stepped up to help and the community leaders definining the “new normal” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Victorino delivered his virtual State of the County address Tuesday night in a prerecorded message from Maui Preparatory Academy’s new Bozich Center, a marked contrast from the speech given in February last year when he spoke to an unmasked crowd at an indoor gym.
Mar 8, 2021
The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for areas of Haiku and Pauwela downstream of the Kaupakalua Dam.
Maui County warned that residents evacuating their homes due to flooding in the Haiku area should not return until it is safe.
Residents have been stranded after heavy rains and flash flooding crested the Kaupakalua Reservoir and Dam and Haiku, sending fast-flowing floodwaters across roads and heavily damaging or destroying half a dozen homes, the county said.
Authorities have told everyone in the vicinity of Kaupakalua Dam and makai of Kaupakalua Road to leave the area immediately, as well as people near heavily flowing streams.