'Everyone says I'm lucky': Caroline Sasaki has narrow escape as 5-feet-tall boulder crashes into her home
HONOLULU, HAWAII: A video showing a massive boulder crashing into a Hawaiian home and nearly missing a woman has been doing the rounds on the internet. The shocking incident took place at around 11:45 pm on Sunday, January 29, when Caroline Sasaki was entering the living room of her home in Honolulu. As she was about to enter the room, a massive 5-feet-tall boulder crashed into her home.
The boulder had journeyed down from a nearby hillside and crashed through a cinderblock wall outside the house, before smashing through the living room and finally ending up in a bedroom, according to Hawaii News Now. Sasaki was surely blessed with luck as the boulder had missed her just barely as she approached the couch to watch TV. "I heard the loud boom, and apparently, the boulder passed right in front of me, which I didn't know," she told Hawaii News Now. "I didn't see it. All I heard was the boom and then somebody asking me if I was okay."
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How did they escape?
At the time, there were four individuals in the house, including Sasaki, none of whom were injured. The family present with Sasaki during the incident had reportedly moved into the home on Palolo Avenue in January. The crash reportedly destroyed the family's car. An investigation is under process to determine where the boulder came from as well as how did it crash into the home. As of Monday, January 30, the rock remains to be inside the home, according to Hawaii News Now.
'God is with me'
"Basically, I'm in shock," Sasaki told ABC7. "I refuse to look at the videos, so I — I'm not sure how close — but everybody's telling me I'm lucky." She added, "God is with me."
It appears that the area in question has undergone a lot of changes in the recent years, as per a report by Hawaii News Now. The outlet compares the Palolo Valley neighborhood over the years and shows that the area now has a cement wall that holds back the steep hillside near Sasaki's home.
"There was a concern before this even happened," Sasaki spoke of the nearby hillside where many boulders rest. "At least one of them could have been killed instantly," said Craig Tomita, a longtime resident, to the outlet. He added, "There was so much adrenaline flowing that it just brought me down for a while."