Video Shows Woman Nearly Hit By Giant Boulder As It Crashes Into Her Hawaii Home

Terrifying dwelling safety footage exhibits a lady narrowly escaping an enormous boulder that got here crashing via the partitions of her new dwelling over the weekend.

Caroline Sasaki of Honolulu advised native NBC affiliate “Hawaii Information Now” that the incident occurred simply earlier than midnight, as she was strolling towards the sofa in her lounge to look at TV. (Totally different shops have variously described the occasion as happening Saturday and Sunday evening.)

Authorities advised “Hawaii Information Now” that the boulder, which is 5 ft excessive and 5 ft huge, scraped a household automotive earlier than it barreled via the cinderblock wall of Sasaki’s dwelling. It then crashed via the lounge and one other wall earlier than coming to relaxation in a bed room.

Fortuitously, not one of the 4 individuals who had been within the dwelling had been injured — although Sasaki advised ABC’s KITV 4 that she’s been advised if she had taken “another step, I most likely wouldn’t be right here.”

“I heard the loud increase, and apparently, the boulder handed proper in entrance of me, which I didn’t know,” Sasaki advised “Hawaii Information Now.” “I didn’t see it. All I heard was the increase after which any individual asking me if I used to be OK.”

Sasaki was nonetheless shaken by the incident when she spoke to Honolulu information channel KABC.

“Mainly, I’m in shock,” Sasaki advised KABC. “I refuse to take a look at the movies, so I — I’m undecided how shut — however all people’s telling me I’m fortunate.”

The Sasaki household advised native information station KHON that they’d simply moved into the newly constructed dwelling in Honolulu’s Palolo Valley earlier this month.

Sasaki advised KHON that she grew up in Palolo Valley and huge rocks don’t usually come rolling down hills — even in “heavy rain and hurricane warnings.”

She advised KITV that she and her neighbors suspect the rock got here down due to excavation work for a deliberate improvement on a mountain near her property.

“I used to be in concern of this occurring from earlier than, from once they began,” Sasaki advised KITV.

KHON spoke to the event’s proprietor Bingning Li, who insisted his challenge is to not blame.

“By no means, that is from approach above, I checked out a type of rocks about 50 ft away from on prime of the property and landed over there after which made its approach down right here,” Li advised KHON. “So it hit one of many cables that was alleged to cease it and the cable snapped. That took a whole lot of power away in any other case this injury could be far more.”

“Hawaii Information Now” studies that the incident remains to be being investigated by authorities. The outlet mentioned that as of Monday, the boulder was nonetheless in Sasaki’s dwelling.