Honolulu County

So pick your day, count back two days, and set an alarm for 6:55 AM Hawaiian time.

Book on the official City and County of Honolulu website, and grab the earliest slot you can.

Your ticket does not save you a parking spot.

Parking is $3, cash only, and the lots fill up, so get there early.

Legal short-term rentals on Oahu have to show both in their ads.

If they're missing either one, keep looking.

If they're there, check them on the City and County of Honolulu short-term rental page and screenshot the listing.

Or stay in Waikiki or Ko Olina, where short stays are allowed.

You know, you

mentioned you're from Kauai and we were actually, some of the, I guess, DEM mayor's office, parks, a lot of staff from Honolulu County actually got flown over to Kauai County to help after the hurricane.

And when we see these natural disasters, even tropical storms, like we just experienced, does that change the need at all? Does that change your operations at all?

it does so with storms coming through a lot of times you'll see people not come out to donate because it might not be safe for them or whatever reason or a blood drive might get cancelled because you know depending on where it is it might not be safe because they're getting a lot of bad weather so it can affect us like that

County solid waste transfer stations in Kauai stayed closed, and the Heleon Route 90 run to Kona was canceled.

Federal Declaration The pre-landfall declaration approved September 25 provides federal assistance for emergency protective measures in the City and County of Honolulu and Hawaii, Maui and Kauai Counties, including direct federal assistance at a 75% federal cost share.

the State Emergency Operations Center remains at Level 1 full activation with 24-hour staffing, coordinating with FEMA Region 9, the counties, and utilities.

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His many off-the-grid and off-the-road venues where Pota and Sota takes him gave him options to make important connections.

His responses also drew on his training as part of Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service for the City and County of Honolulu, which he serves as Deputy Coordinator.

He's also a member of the Emergency Amateur Radio Club in Honolulu.

As he says in his YouTube video about the experience, "...it wasn't a day that I had planned, but it was still a wonderful day to make contacts, and my best contact all day was helping somebody in need." To hear Michael's account of the rescue and view the YouTube video, follow the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org.

But joining us on the program today is Gwendolyn Morgs.

She is the Syracuse-Honolulu County President of the NAACP.

You see how I did that, Gwen? Yeah.

Got it, George.

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Thanks, folks.

Mr. Rapozo, same question for you.

Well, first of all, uh, I don't s- necessarily believe that [laughs] H-POWER is successful for the City and County of Honolulu.

In fact, they pay the operator tremendous amounts of money in penalties because they are not providing the adequate number of, uh, tonnage.

So I would not copy that.