Post #463435 by Chip and Andy on Sun, Jun 21, 2009 10:54 AM

On 2009-06-20 15:10, Koolau wrote:
You're talking about this tiki, right?

No, that guy is still there.

This is the guy that went down just before Hukilau:

Time and the South Florida Weather have been unkind to him. And the termites didn't help. I looked down into what was left of his feet, it was really amazing he didn't come down sooner.

We had some rather gusty winds the week before Hukilau and it was too much for him. He fell over backwards, went through a section of fence and hit the ground pretty hard. Kind of like in the movies where they pour the liquid nitrogen over somebody and then they break into a billion tiny pieces.... that gives you an idea. Apparently there weren't too many bits big enough to really do anything with.

And, since the Mai Kai was about to host all of the visitors in town for the Hukilau, they scrambled through the warehouse and found this guy:

On 2009-06-19 15:56, AlohaStation wrote:

To stand in for the fallen tiki. The fence was patched and some plants added so everyone could still have their picture taken with the Tiki's.