Richard Ha writes:

Hilo is all boarded up with very few cars on the road. Here's Kamehameha Avenue, downtown.

There's very little wind at this point. It's relatively calm at the farm, but the river and flume are pumping.

The banana leaves are not shredded yet.

It's now 7:21 and it's relatively quite in Hilo.

As Hurricane Iselle approaches the Big Island, it seems part of its outer bands went north to Waimea, and part went south to Puna.

We are waiting for the storm to hit the island head on in a couple of hours. We'll see what happens.