Kamuelamom
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Holy smokes! We had 3 earthquakes tonight!! They weren''t too big but they scare me nonetheless. I''m scarred from the ones I went through as a child.
Wow--Thank goodness you are okay!Date: 1/14/2005 3:23:56 AM
Author: Kamuelamom
Deb, we are so vulnerable living on an island. Nature is often unpredictable, and extremely precise. Take hurricanes. The most devasting to the Hawaiian islands was Iniki in ''92. We are just micro specs in a huge ocean. In ''82 Iwa hit Hawaii, and the island of Kauai took the brunt of that. Then 10 years later Iniki hit the islands and once again, Kauai took it smack to devastate them. I was working in the resort industry at the time, and folks (coworkers and guests alike) were stranded there for days if they didn''t get out before hand. There was no way to get to and from the island during the week following the storm. Being so remote, help was difficult to reach there as well. My girlfriend, who lives there, said the eye of the storm passed over the area she lived. Things got quiet and eery while the surrounding areas were being slashed by wind and rain. How precise is that?
I remember living in Honolulu, Oahu (state''s capital city) during Iwa, it was Thanksgiving weekend and all we could do was stay indoors and wait for it to pass. many cooked their turkeys on grills because power was lost in many areas. No hurricane would dampen the holiday spirit!
We''ve also had our share of tsunamis in Hawaii and particularly on the Big Island were I live and grew up, though none were related to the two large earthquakes I mentioned. The worse one was the 1960 Tsunami on Big Island which wiped out the downtown portion of the town that I was born in. I was not born yet. My parents lived through of the 2 major ones in her lifetime. In the 1946 tsunami, she and my aunties talk about it as if it were yesterday. The saw children get swallowed by the ocean as they were watching the fish jumping out of the receding waters.
Yes, I believe it was ... SF Giants vs Oakland As. My girlfriend was at that game. With the Bay Bridge down, it took her 7 hours to get home (normally 45 minutes). I also remember the gas main ruptures and fires in the San Francisco Marina district (had a another girlfriend who lived there).Date: 1/16/2005 6:395 PM
Author: Kamuelamom
Kaili thanks. And cflutist, I distinctly recall that one. Wasn''t that smack in the middle of the world series? I just moved back home to the big island and DH (then fiance) and were watching the game and wondering what the heck was going on.......those images of the bay bridge going down still enter my mind........
Thank you all for the well wishes. They really were not a big deal, but it was for me since I am spooked by them.Date: 1/16/2005 8:12:58 PM
Author: perry
By the way your earthquake may have been a late residual from the big one that caused the tsuminie (spelling). When a big one hits in the earth - the vibrations often trigger events elsewhere for several weeks in locations that were getting close to 'due' anyway.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sunset this evening.
Perry