Traffic remained closed Monday on South Kihei Road near Kamaole Beach Park II where flooding damaged the road. Gary Kubota/The Maui News

Maui is continuing to clean up after a subtropical cyclone with winds of 70 mph in some areas grounded several vessels, caused flooding that destroyed a home in Wailuku and damaged coastal roads in South Maui.

More than 3 feet of rain fell on the summit of Haleakala in two days. The storm caused major damage to roads in Kihei, and flooded the Target store in Kahului.

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House destroyed in Wailuku

The Iao Stream kept widening its flood path Friday and Saturday to the point that Tom Bashaw and his wife decided to sleep in a shipping container rather than their house along the stream.

Bashaw said the stream kept eroding his property and undermined the foundation of the family’s two-bedroom home, first taking the rear and then the entire house Saturday morning.

The house had wooden floors and hand-built shelves. Outside, there was a tiled sidewalk.

“Five years of extremely hard work, and it’s gone in hours,” he said. “The river just came and started eroding all this.”

(10) A portion of Iao Valley resident Tom Bashaw’s house was torn away from the foundation due to heavy flooding and erosion from the Iao Stream. Photo Courtesy Tom Bashaw

Heavy equipment removes mounds of mud along South Kihei Road near a bridge by the ABC Store Monday. Gary Kubota/The Maui News

Clean up begins in South Maui

Most roads in South Maui were passable Sunday, but there was widespread damage on South Kihei Road, including a portion near Kamaole Beach Park II where floodwaters gouged out a large hole that tilted a power line.

Along South Kihei Road near Kenolio Park, the runoff storm water created a few gouges on the seaside of streets and damaged a bus stop near the Kihei Canoe Club.

“This is the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen,” said Vanessa Weiss, a board member of Kihei Canoe Club. “On Friday and Saturday, the rain was pounding. It was forceful.”

Weiss said club members moved the canoes to a beach location farther north to protect them from being damaged and washed away.

Seven heavy equipment machines Monday cleared mounds of mud near the Kihei Canoe Club along South Kihei Road from Uwapo to North Kihei Road.

Kihei resident Justin Fetalvero shoveled more than a foot of mud from his family’s driveway along South Kihei Road near Kauha’a Street. Fetalvero said it’s not the first time he’s cleared the driveway, but the flooding was different this time.

“It was definitely worse — more mud, more water,” he said.

In East Maui, workers cleared a tree that fell on Hana Highway in the Waiakamoi area, blocking the road, said Mahealani Wendt, who noted there were “lots of rock slides.”

All state roads are passable, but Crater Road and Hana Highway were limited to local traffic only, state highway officials said Monday.

A section of South Kihei Road near the ABC at Uwapo Road was undermined as flood waters flowed through the area. Gary Kubota/The Maui News

Vessels aground

Two vessels were aground along the beach at North Kihei Road, including a monohull motorboat and the 50-foot catamaran Winona.

Captain Keone Laepa’a said the Winona was tied down offshore with five lines, but the wind was blowing about 48 mph with higher gusts and the lines broke.

“They all shaved and rubbed through,” Laepa’a said.

He said the fuel and batteries were removed from the Winona, and the owners were waiting for the insurance agent to examine the vessel before its removal.

(7) A couple of vessels were aground along the beach near Kealia Pond and North Kihei Road, including the catamaran Winona and a single-hull motorboat. Gary Kubota/The Maui News

Heavy rainfall

Heavy rain fell on the summits of Maui’s mountains for two successive days from 8 a.m. Friday through 8 a.m. Sunday.

Two days of rain totaled 25.41 inches at Puu Kukui in the West Maui Mountains and 43.66 inches at summit of Haleakala,

according to National Weather Service. Ulupalakua had 18.39 inches of rain in two days, more than half of its average 30-inch yearly total.

Two-day totals were 40.64 in Kula, 20.92 at Haleakala Park headquarters, 16.12 inches in Wailuku, 13.25 at Kahului Airport, 12.66 in Lahaina, 8.79 in Pukalani, 7.19 in Haiku, 22.92 in Keokea, 14.75 at Honolua Bay, and 11.24 at Hana Airport.

National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick Blood said the rainfall in Kahului broke the old record set in the 1960s.

“It was the most rainfall in a generation of 50 years,” Blood said.

Kihei resident Justin Fetalvero shoveled mud from his family driveway along South Kihei Road near Kauha’a Street. Gary Kubota/The Maui News

Flights canceled

The storms prompted a flurry of flight cancellations but by Monday, visitor volume appeared to be returning to normal. According to flightaware.com 16 flights into the Kahului Airport were cancelled Friday, followed by 57 flights Saturday and 27 on Sunday.