March 23 (UPI) -- A flood watch remains in effect for parts of Hawaii after two days of heavy rain led to serious flooding, totaled cars, destroyed homes and damaged infrastructure.
A kona low -- a seasonal Hawaiian cyclone -- caused widespread destruction as the island chain was hit by its heaviest rainstorm in roughly two decades, NBC and USA Today reported.
Residents in some neighborhoods have been started to clean up, including on the North Shore communities of Haleiwa and Waialua, where some were trapped in the houses as floodwaters raced in reaching at least waist high, KHON-2 reported.
"Everyone's kind of in the street, just shoveling out mud and pulling out soaking debris and doing whatever they can to kind of start drying things out," Wailua Beach resident Mac Burton said.
"But we're still without power here, so it's making some of those efforts a little more difficult," Burton said.
