With recovery efforts in full swing after the back-to-back storms, stories about how the community sprang into action are continuing to circulate.
Waialua horse trainer and ranch owner Tyler Smith shared his own story: It was just before midnight last Friday when his phone buzzed with an alarm about imminent flooding.
He’d been wracked with anxiety about the impending second Kona low all day, and when that alarm sounded, he immediately drove to Dillingham Ranch to check on his horses…