Marck Aphay stands on a dirt and trash-strewn lot where his home once stood at Otake Camp. As he rummaged through debris on April 23, he broke down in tears after he found a container with food bowls that he used to feed his seven cats.
“That’s what kills me because I have a lot of memories here,” he said. “To come back home to nothing. I built everything in 12 years. I had my life savings here.”
During the second Kona low storm on March 20, Aphay’s home was swept away by the floods before crashing into a bridge downstream…