Hurricane Lane has forced many a tourist to cut short their Hawaiian holiday.
Just back from the islands is a Sunnyvale resident who shared her story with KRON4 on Friday.
“The hardest thing is the uncertainty,” Tracy May said.
May says there was uncertainty about whether she and her cousin would ride out the hurricane at their hotel or head for home.
“You’d see these huge dark clouds, and you knew it was coming, so you were just hoping you could get out, and if you were stranded that you had everything that you needed,” May said.
Awaiting word about their flight, Tracy shot video of the palm trees outside her hotel room before heading to the Safeway for emergency supplies.
“The government came out and said even if you’re a visitor you need to stock up,” May said.
Watching the hurricane unfold from the safety of her living room, Tracy recalls the anxiety that she felt and how her hosts helped her cope.
“In the hotel, in the store, at the airport, they just showed us the kindest aloha spirit and I was really impressed and touched by that,” May said.
And then Tracy landed two seats on a flight out during a brief break in the clouds but it was a bumpy ride she won’t soon forget.
“We had turbulence for about 2 hours, and the captain was trying to give us a smooth ride but the plane was shaking a lot,” May said.
Looking back on her ordeal, Tracy showed KRON4 a picture of a rainbow that appeared just before takeoff.
It was a reminder perhaps of that aloha spirit and her desire to go back to the islands as soon as possible.
“I have no worries about going back, hurricane or no hurricane, because they really took care of us,”
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