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Sherri
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 Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: earthquake in Hawaii |
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Wow after all the earthquakes I went through after 10+ years in Japan, I finally felt the biggest one EVER in Hawaii. Who would have thought? It has virtually shut down the entire chain of islands. Oahu and the west coast of the Big Island have no power. Airports on all islands are closed.
V lucky here on the east side with power and cable.
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Gordon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I hope you are alright, Sherri. I heard that Kona got the worst of it.
My parents are on a cruise in the Hawaiian islands at the moment. Not sure what has happened to them or what it would be like on a ship. |
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Sherri
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: |
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We are all fine and so are the other people here I have spoken to. I think your parents would be safe on the ship. At least they would have power. Do you have any idea where they would be sailing about now? Do you know the name of their ship? The quake originated in north Kohala off shore (north of Kona). That would not be a good place to be cruising or sailing. I did hear that the people who were out at sea in Kona did not know about the quake until they came ashore.
I feel sorry for the two students we were expecting to arrive from Japan today. Last we heard they were stuck in Honolulu airport.
Let us know how your parents are doing when you hear.
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Glad to hear you are okay, Sherri.
I'm leaving for Honolulu in two hours on a business trip and should arrive there Monday morning. Hopefully, the airport will be up and running again by the time we land! |
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Sherri
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:21 am Post subject: |
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taikibansei
I sure hope the power is back by then. It's raining there. Hot and sunny here though (usually it is the other way around). Hope your trip goes all right...
This is a good website for local updates
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/index.html |
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Irish
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: Thanks for the update, Sherri |
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Hi Sherri,
Thanks for taking the time to post. Glad to hear you're okay and hope there's no damage to your property. Even though I know there are no reported fatalities or major injuries, I'm in the process of trying to contact friends back home just to make myself feel better. It was quite an unpleasant surprise to open up the online edition of the Advertiser this morning and see the news.
And to think that when I left the islands everyone was worrying about me getting hurt in an earthquake here in Istanbul.
Here's hoping there are no aftershocks and that the lights come on wiki wiki. |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:43 am Post subject: |
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| Sherri wrote: |
We are all fine and so are the other people here I have spoken to. I think your parents would be safe on the ship. At least they would have power. Do you have any idea where they would be sailing about now? Do you know the name of their ship? The quake originated in north Kohala off shore (north of Kona). That would not be a good place to be cruising or sailing. I did hear that the people who were out at sea in Kona did not know about the quake until they came ashore.
I feel sorry for the two students we were expecting to arrive from Japan today. Last we heard they were stuck in Honolulu airport.
Let us know how your parents are doing when you hear.
Sherri |
No word yet, but thanks. I am not sure of the ship, but it was a Norwegian cruiseline. I also have no idea where the ship would be. Will give an update when I hear. I am sure it is nothing though |
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:20 am Post subject: |
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taikibansei
I sure hope the power is back by then. It's raining there. Hot and sunny here though (usually it is the other way around). Hope your trip goes all right...
This is a good website for local updates
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/index.html |
Hi Sherri,
Story of my life. I finally get to visit Hawaii (even if just for business), and what happens? A large earthquake and local flooding...what's next, a volcanic eruption? Locusts? 
Well, I'm in Kansai now, with about 5 hours of waiting still to go (no good connecting flights from where I live). Hopefully, everything will be up and running there by tomorrow.
Thanks for that website!
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maya.the.bee
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| so... i just heard there was an earth quake here in japan. it happened a week ago. a week ago. how did i miss that? |
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gaijinalways
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:33 am Post subject: |
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The earthquakes in Japan are a lot of shaking mostly, though of course the Kobe one was a big one.
Sherri,
Amazing, that was one of the things we asked the RE agent about, when the last earthquake was  . Hope you didn't miss Dave's too much if you lost power  . |
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Sherri
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Actually last night was worse than Earthquake day. I live about 2 miles from the shore in a rural area. It started to rain at about 6:00pm. 30 minutes later, it developed into a full on thunder and lightening show with rain bucketing from the sky. Flash flood warnings. Then the electricity went out for about 9 hours. Total darkness. The storm was right above us and we were bombarded with thunder and lightening for about 5 hours straight. I have never experienced anything so intense.
Hi Irish! Good to hear from you. Yes, I always thought I would catch the Big One while in Tokyo. Here I figured it would more likely be a lava flow seeing as we live about 30 mins from a live volcano!
taikibansei, hope you made it to Honolulu all right.
Bye for now
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Gordon
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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Just talked to my parents. The had no problem on the ship, in fact they didn't feel a thing, probably the best place to be in an earthquake is on a ship, uness there is a tsunami.
How is the "conference", Taikibansei? |
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| How is the "conference", Taikibansei? |
Actually, it really was a business trip (among other things, I set up a sister-school relationship between a school there and one in Japan). I got back on Friday--i.e., a very quick turnaround.
The only earthquake-related problem I had was at the airport early on Monday morning. The electricity apparently went out again just as we were arriving and they couldn't get our door open...for one long, very muggy hour.... 
I was really impressed by Hawaii. What a beautiful place! |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| taikibansei wrote: |
| Gordon wrote: |
| How is the "conference", Taikibansei? |
Actually, it really was a business trip (among other things, I set up a sister-school relationship between a school there and one in Japan). I got back on Friday--i.e., a very quick turnaround.
The only earthquake-related problem I had was at the airport early on Monday morning. The electricity apparently went out again just as we were arriving and they couldn't get our door open...for one long, very muggy hour....
I was really impressed by Hawaii. What a beautiful place! |
Just teasing you. I really love Hawaii too. Haven't been there that often of late. I used to go there all the time when my wife was a flight attendant. I'd fly with her and stay in a 4 star hotel for the weekend. Ah life before kids... |
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Irish
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:58 am Post subject: |
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taikibansei wrote: |
| I was really impressed by Hawaii. What a beautiful place! |
Amen, brother -- and it's got great people as well. I spent a month there this summer and hated to leave. Just wish I could afford to live there as a teacher. Oh, well...one of these days...
So did you get a chance to see the outer islands, taikibansei, or were you on Oahu the whole time? |
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