A massive boulder crashing into a Hawaii home over the weekend has left many in shock. The footage of the boulder narrowly missing a woman inside the Honolulu home is nothing short of dramatic.
The boulder, which is five feet high and wide, broke through the home’s cinderblock wall, living room, and then another wall before it settled in a bedroom near midnight Saturday.
Luckily, no one inside the home was injured, however, their car was damaged. The woman the boulder almost hit, Caroline Sasaki, was left shaken.
“All I heard was the boom when the glass cracked from the sliding door, so I backed up and I guess it passed right through me,” the 65-year-old said.
“I haven’t watched the video, but they said if I took one more step, I probably wouldn’t be here,” Sasaki said.
Sasaki and other homeowners in the neighborhood believe nearby excavation work at a planned development is the cause of the boulder falling. The family was only in the newly-built home for about a week when the wrecking boulder came barreling.
“We lived in this same location. We just knocked down the old house and rebuilt it; and it’s never happened before, heavy rain and hurricane warnings nothing. So, no rocks ever came down,” Sasaki told the station. “We’ve had some issues with them carving the mountain, and I don’t know if that’s the cause.”
Development owner Bingning Li has insisted his project is not to blame. Li believes the boulder came from way above and hit one of the cables that were supposed to stop it, causing the cable to snap and take a lot of the energy away.
“Not at all, this is from way above, I looked at one of those rocks about 50 feet away from on top of the property and landed over there and then made its way down here,” Li reportedly said.
“So it hit one of the cables that was supposed to stop it and the cable snapped. That took a lot of energy away otherwise this damage would be way more.”
