Updated at 5:50 p.m., Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Lingle creates committee to deal with response time
Advertiser Staff
Gov. Linda Lingle today announced the creation of a comprehensive communications committee that will report back in 60 days on strategies to get reliable information to the public out quickly during emergencies.
At a news conference on the aftermath of Sunday's earthquakes, Lingle also said:
Farmers in Waimea and Kohala have been asked to conserve water because landslides have covered the intakes at two irrigation system.
Eighty homesteads in Kohala are without water due to problems to their irrigation system.
More than 100 North Kohala residents have reported that their homes sustained structural damaged during the earthquakes, which they discovered when their roofs started leaking during last night's torrential downpour.
Kona Community Hospital has been found to be structurally intact, but will need some interior maintenance before the long-term care patients they evacuated can move back in.
