On Saturday, January 28, 2023, a family in Hawaii was nearly crushed under a rock when a huge boulder crashed into their home. The terrifying incident was captured on surveillance camera showing a massive rock crashing into a Hawaii residence over the weekend, nearly losing a woman who reportedly moved in with her family a week ago. .
The video showed the woman, identified as Caroline Sasaki, walking down the hallway inside her Honolulu hillside home when a rock passed through a wall and nearly struck her inside the house.
According to multiple reports, the five-foot boulder tore through the home compound and through the living room before landing in a bedroom. Authorities said no one was injured during the incident.
Hawaii authorities are investigating the reason behind the rock that destroyed a home.
Hawaii authorities are reportedly investigating the source behind a massive rock that crashed into the home of a family who had only been in the newly built home for about a week when the rock destroyed their residence.
Caroline Sasaki, the 65-year-old resident of the house, who was deeply distraught at being nearly crushed by the giant rock, described the ordeal to KITV 4, saying:
“All I heard was the crash as the glass in the sliding door broke, so I backed up and I guess it went right through me. I haven’t seen the video, but they said if I went one step further, I probably wouldn’t be here.”
As authorities continue to investigate the source of the rock, Sasaki, apparently exhausted by the incident, told KHON 2 that she suspected nearby excavation work at a planned development in the hillside area was responsible for the rock crashing. against his house.
The suspicions were also shared by other homeowners in the Hawaii Hillside neighborhood who shared Sasaki’s concerns about the development project wreaking havoc in the area. Sasaki, who said that this was an unprecedented incident, told the outlet:
“We lived in this very place. We just tear down the old house and rebuild it; and it has never happened before, heavy rain and hurricane warnings nothing. So no rock ever fell. We’ve had some problems with them carving the mountain, and I don’t know if that’s the cause.”
However, the development’s owner, Bingning Li, rebuked Sasaki’s claims and insisted that her project was not at fault in the recent incident. Bingning Li replied that the rock rolled from a much higher height away from his property. In response to the accusations, he said:
“Not at all, this is from way up there, I looked at one of those rocks about 50 feet from the top of the property and I landed there and then I came down here. Then he hit one of the cables that were supposed to stop him and the cable snapped. That took a lot of energy, otherwise, this damage would be much higher.”