Cleanup efforts were underway as locals came together to help displaced families returning to destroyed homes. Mac Burton, who lives in Wailua Beach, went out into the streets of the North Shore community Sunday to help his neighbors.
Cleanup, he said, is going to take months. “Anything that was, you know, 4 feet or below, it is just completely wiped out,” he said.
Mac Burton recorded flooding in his neighborhood in Waialua, on Oahu, on Friday morning.Mac BurtonBurton said that many homes still have standing water in them and that even when the water level goes down, they’re left with “a ton of mud.” Wood homes that are still standing will face mold and water damage, he said.
“Everyone’s kind of in the street, just shoveling out mud and pulling out soaking debris and doing whatever they can to kind of start drying things out,” he said. “But we’re still without
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