NAALEHU, BIG ISLAND (KHON2) -- A Big Island family and kupuna dealing with medical issues, are still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Hone slammed into their home Sunday.
They are asking the public for help.
"This is the living room, and this is where my bed was stationed," Jacob Satterwhite explained as he walked over mounds of debris.
Four days after Hurricane Hone hit Hawaii island, Satterwhite's home in Waiohinu near Naalehu, or what's left of it, is still buried under mountains of mud.
"Here is the kitchen," he said pointing to the stove and counter beyond more piles of dirt and rock. "I had to dig out little pathways just to kind of salvage stuff."
But he said almost everything he owns was destroyed. The flood gutted his home inside and out.
"It took out the foundation underneath and where the the corner of the house is," Satterwhite said showing KHON the damaged outside corner of the home.
It all started Sunday around 4 a.m. when he was jolted awake by a loud bang and saw the water rising outside his window.
Satterwhite said he ran upstairs to warn his mother, Sharon Mastandrea. Before they knew it, the water was waist deep inside his house.
"It was basically like a river going through the house, but we have so much muck in and rocks and just everything inside the house," he explained.
They weathered the storm upstairs, the house shaking from the force of the flash flood raging next to it.
"There would be loud noises and things like that, and boulders be hitting the side of the house, and then, like you could feel it like it was an earthquake," he said.
"And then all of a sudden, the water's gone, and you got this big dry creek bed going through your house," Mastandrea added. "And where it was a gushing water before it's amazing how it comes down so hard and then just disappears."
They were even more shocked seeing what looks like a dry river bed in their yard created by the flood
"This is not a river that was here before," Mastandrea said pointing to a deep gulch filled with boulders running the length of their green lawn. "It's never been here before. And it just came down and and hit trees and was redirected through a property next to us and then slammed right into our house."
There focus now is preventing it from happening again knowing more bad weather is heading to the islands.
"Hopefully we can get a backhoe or something. We need a cat is what we really need to fill in all this, this dugout, part of our land, because it's just going to keep happening," Satterwhite said concerned.
The ordeal has especially tough on Mastandrea who's battling autoimmune disease. She said she's not sure how they'll cover the damage since she cancelled her hurricane insurance last summer to pay her medical bills.
"We'll just take it a day at a time and see what we can do," she said pausing with tears in her eyes. "And we're fortunate, So, you know. So that's about all."
Satterwhite said they are asking anyone who can help with debris removal to come down to their property on Kohola Road in Waiohinu, near Naalehu on Big Island Thursday around 9 a.m. They also started a GoFundMe to help get them back on their feet.
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