Even when classes are back in session, a substantial number could be relocated, said Manke. They will not be moved off campus, but more likely to different sites on campus.

With clean-up continuing in the wake of the 8-foot wall of water that jumped the banks of Manoa Stream and rushed through the campus Saturday, staff and faculty are being advised to document all of the damage and losses they suffered for insurance claims.

UH chief of staff Sam Callejo met with state officials, said Manke, and losses at the university will be covered by the state's insurance policy.

"Whatever is not covered by the state policy will be covered by state and federal emergency funds," said Manke.

The Halawa Corporation Yard's Road Division yesterday removed debris from Manoa Stream on East Manoa Road near Lowrey Avenue. Rebecca Breyer • The Honolulu Advertiser

Manoa homeowners, meanwhile, continued their clean-up.

Bette and Harold Wataoka, in their 80s, were driven out of their home on Lowrey Avenue Saturday night as mud and water filled their garage, came in the front door and covered every corner of the house.

"This embankment never overflowed before and we've been here 40 years," said Bette Wataoka, 80, who had a stroke two years ago and is a little unstable on her feet.

As the water rose to 3 to 4 feet, Bette struggled to move things higher in the house. "My footing wasn't steady," she said. "It was so slippery."

As the Wataokas returned to look at the tremendous damage, Patricia Cooper, interim associate dean of the UH School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, was walking up Manoa Stream trying to find the cause of the disaster to the UH campus.

Early guesses put losses in the millions of dollars.

"The FEMA and U.S. Geological Survey people were looking at the stream this morning, too," said Cooper. "The upper reaches are clear. All the bridges have had this debris clog removed. I don't know where all that stuff came from and I don't think we're going to find out ... but I noticed that the homeowners tend to dump junk into the river. Tree trimmings, cuttings and just junk and rubbish — they just dump it in the stream to get rid of it."

The university is also considering doing aerial photography of the stream to help make evaluations.

Cooper said there have been conflicting time reports, with some saying the first onslaught was between 7:30 and 8 p.m. with a second at 11 p.m.

She sees a need for better stream management. "You can't just dump things in the stream," she said.

Back at the UH campus, clean-up crews at Hamilton Library won't know until next week whether new servers will be able to again offer cataloguing services to students online.

"The server room has been relocated (it had been in the flooded basement) and we're hoping to get everything online next week," said associate librarian Jean Ehrhorn. "We have generators running dehumidifiers to dry out the ground floor."

Over at the East-West Center, administrators were bringing in generators and expected to have power to three dorms for about 400 international students by last night, said Brent Watanabe, administrator for support services.