A government spokesperson can take questions and criticisms from the community following a disaster. But what happens when that spokesperson is a community member?
Kathleen Pahinui spoke directly to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi at a North Shore Neighborhood Board meeting last week.
“I cannot tell you how stressed I was, how all these people were stressed getting alerts that make no sense,” she said.
Pahinui was one of hundreds of residents who fled severe flooding and a potential dam failure. She’s a longtime resident who lives off Kukea Circle in Waialua — right in the evacuation zone of the Wahiawā Dam…