August 16, 2007
While this is not usually in line with things I comment about I simply could not resist saying something about Michael Vick. He must be the most idiotic person in the world to potentially ruin his football career because he was not able to find a proper financial adviser. Dog fighting? Is that really the proper place for someone with many many millions of dollars to be putting money? Was this not obvious to him? Did he even have a financial adviser at all? Exactly how did he plan to report all of that illegal income? This guy really must be the absolute most stupid person playing football today and that is saying a great deal, I think.
Here in Hawaii we have not been hit with the tsunami (which is quite good) from the Peru earthquake. We did, however, have an earthquake at 2:20 this morning which woke us up and sent us into the doorway. I think it was a 3.8 - something like that.  We are well.
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August 15, 2007
Because of the earthquake in Peru we are under a tsunami alert which may hit at as early as 2 AM. We shall see.
At least we are prepared for a disaster because of the hurricane. The hurricane ended up being a non-event. The crazy part was that the radar showed that we were being hit really hard but in actuality we had very little rain. It has been completely overcast because of the hurricane and we haven’t seen the sun but other than that the wind was not bad nor was the rain. It was odd. I did see on Konaweb that a person (Peter A) who lives at South Point posted a photograph of the hurricane from the coast - it is really amazing. Here it is:
The only other exciting thing going on is that our housekeeper quit but she has a replacement for us so that is fortunate since we do not clean. The REAL secret to a happy marriage without strife is hiring someone to keep your house clean.
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August 13, 2007
We have been making hurricane preparations today for Flossie (which I accidentally called Floosie) - filling up the ofuro (Japanese soaking tub) with water, filling up a 5 gallon container with water, taping up our picture window in the living room, moving plants, taking the recyclables to the recycling center (made a whopping $8), took out the trash, unplugged everything (except this laptop), and went in search of batteries (I got the last pack of C batteries at Ace, yay!), etc.  I also made about 20 cups of rice and we have a ton of MRE TastyBite Indian food so we are set for weeks if necessary. Of course, our neighbor next door has made no preparations and they have a bunch of stuff sitting out in their yard which I hope will not come flying through our windows. They have cancelled school for tomorrow on the whole island. The storm surge is predicted to be about 20 feet in Hilo - it could cause massive flooding. We are hoping for the best.
Also, we had a rather big earthquake here just a couple of hours ago - a 5.4-5.7 just south of Hilo so it was quite close. It was from Kilauea - maybe a new vent opened - we shall find out soon I am sure. We have some broken glasses and knicknacks and a few pictures fell off the wall. A bunch of stuff fell out of the cabinets as well but we are fine. Also, when we went downstairs I noticed a bunch of water on the floor of the basement and apparently the ofuro leaked during the earthquake. So, Brian sort of cleaned it up and I moved all of our shoes so hopefully we won’t have to deal with that issue anymore tonight.
The county is pretty much saying that the power (and Hawaii has no backup power) is going to go out which in turn means that the stores will be closed, no gas will be available, no water can be obtained through the faucet - but we shall see.
At least we have one working phone that does not require electricity.
More later…
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October 16, 2006
At 7 AM this morning we were awakened by an earthquake that registered at 6.6-6.7 and it was shaking our house like a jackhammer. It lasted about a minute. Fortunately, Brian got us to safety in a door frame and we waited it out. Shortly after that, a 5.8 hit further off the coast and the house started swaying side to side - we could even hear it creaking and it felt like being in a small boat with big swells. Stuff was flying out of our medicine cabinet, out of the linen closet, books were hitting the floor, and a frame fell and broke but I would say we escaped with minimal damage… Our power went out and we could not make calls. The highway north of us is shut down because of rock and landslides and Waimea is apparently cut off from everything due to land/rock slides on the Hamakua coast as well as the highway to Kona. Apparently, the roof at Safeway and Walmart in Kona caved in or collapsed. People apparently saw buildings in Kona split apart and saw giant cracks. We have heard that Kona and Waimea have a lot of damage. We heard that a landslide occurred in Kealekekua Bay down by Napoopoo Beach (hope no one was kayaking or snorkeling down there). Hilo seems to be the only area on the Big Island with power but most things seem to be closed except major retailers. We are OK though…
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