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BLACK:Okay. Okay. DARROW:These are all your -. BLACK:Okay. These are -. When I gave you the copy of the letter, I broke it into yellow and green and we're all the green. Okay. When we're talking about that, we're talking about the Shigeoka Camp properties are in here. These are the 87A through E properties. These properties here are 43 and 61. So when we had that so-called hundred year rain, not all the water came from Lanikaula Street. Part of the problem that's going on here is that there is no sewer drainage on Kilauea Avenue in the block between Kawili and Lanikaula, so what happens is you get the big rains, the water comes down Kilauea Avenue, it's moving on Kilauea Avenue, and because there's no place for it, no puka for it to go down under, it just catches up, catches up, catches up, and then there's so much water crossing the intersection in a big rain that half of the water breaks across and actually makes a right turn on Lanikaula Street where it moves along the front of our two properties, No. 43 and 61. But when it reaches the little driveway that accesses the subdivision in the back, the 87 homes, it just breaks right down there and it starts charging down into the back. Mrs. Miyamoto's house, when we had the hundred year rain, it went in one side of the ground floor window and out the other. She lost everything on the first floor. She filed a FEMA claim. Now part of what happened in that situation is that the home and my cousin currently owns at 87A, he told us that -, excuse me. Prior to the purchase of the property, I queried our other neighbor who is not present here, Mr. Horiuchi, because he said he couldn't fight progress and he bought himself another house and moved out, okay. Kind of a bummer. Anyway, to make a long story short, the water that did not go past the -, that did not turn onto Lanikaula Street went straight down Kilauea and starts going down these driveways. Now I made this clear to Dr. Takase the very first time that he came to look at the property when I went over and introduced myself because I've known his daughter for years, she's my classmate, and I wanted to have a nice exchange with them. We're not trying to be adversarial neighbors, we're just concerned. And what he said was that he was going to do some kind of a flood study. So th we all got a notice back in the mail September 17 or something that this flood study was going to be done addressing the concerns of the water. Did we ever get a copy? No. They came, they put their little stickers all around, they measured this, that, and the other thing. We never diddley squat about what happened with that report. We sort of were thinking that we were going to get a copy of it. They were querying what was happening in our neighborhood. It concerns us. Now when I had my dialogue with Kelly about the grading situation, because originally the stockpiling permit had been issued and then the bulldozer started moving, and I said, "Hey, whoa, wait a minute." They're bringing any kind of debris from construction sites, road construction, whatever, dumping it here in this area and grading it flat in a place that is currently like a little stream. Now here's the thing. Granted, the fact that there's no drainage on Kilauea contributes to the problem, and that is not the Applicant's problem, that's everybody's problem. But the water comes inside of here and it starts to go across. Now if you look at the area currently, you will see that there is an area right there where water crosses underneath Kilauea 13