<p>Just read about the quake in HI. Hope you and yours are okay!</p>
<p>Same thought here. Thinking of you, Himom and hoping to hear all is well.
Ditto for sluggbugg who was traveling in HI recently - home safe, slugg?</p>
<p>Looks like some electricty is back and planes flying. Hope no damage.</p>
<p>added-also been through several. I hear todays was 2 min-probably longer than any I remember.</p>
<p>I was thinking about HImom too. Is she on Kona? Earthquakes are scary! (and I’ve been through several).</p>
<p>Joining in to send good wishes. I was thinking about her as I was listening to the news this afternoon. Lots of power outages I think.</p>
<p>We spent the last two spring vacations in Kailua-Kona–there are a lot of small, somewhat remote enclaves. It must be very scary although it sounds like property damage has been bad but most people are safe, thank goodness, including evacuations from at least one hospital.</p>
<p>Thinking of HImom,too, and looking around Parents Cafe to see if she posted anything. Nice of you to start a thread, Marite.</p>
<p>My oldest is at the University of Hawaii on Oahu in off campus housing. He called us on his cell phone within 2 minutes of the quake and said it was very intense, waking them from a sound sleep and knocking things all over the house. Car alarms were blaring all over. He said it was much scarier and unnerving than he had ever imagined. They were having aftershocks and lost power and cell service shortly thereafter. He called us again last night and said the cell service was back but they still had no power. We checked the UH website and there was just an emergency statement page which we read to him. It’s 2AM there now, but I did check this morning and the UH website is back up and it appears classes will be held so I’m assuming power has been restored. I’ll talk to him again later.</p>
<p>Sending my best to HIMOM.</p>
<p>Mythreesons, Thanks for telling us how things are in HI. </p>
<p>HIMOM, I do hope that all is well.</p>
<p>HImom and my-3-sons’s S~</p>
<p>Hope y’all both are holding up well in the aftermath of the quake. Sending thoughts your way for all to get back to normal soon. ~berurah</p>
<p>Another thinking of HiMom, and her son who is stateside in school (?correct), probably worried about the family.</p>
<p>He’s at USC.</p>
<p>Having lived on the “Big Island” (Hawaii, not Oahu) for years I have many friends and extended family there. No one I know has been able to get online, but phone service (and yes, even my ham radio) has been good. In my “camp” they’re shaken and a few are nervous about the potential of a volcano erruption. Many broken items throughtout their homes. And many frayed nerves. 6.anything is big.</p>
<p>Possibly HIMom can’t get online. I wish I knew what island/area she and her family are in. My thoughts are also with her and anyone there.</p>
<p>Good thoughts and well wishes to HImom and my-3-son’s DS as well as everyone else who was affected. Hopefully we’ll hear from Himom soon!</p>
<p>One of the scariest things to me after an earthquake are the aftershocks. Your nerves are already shot and each time one happens you relive the earthquake. I feel for everyone in Hawaii right now.</p>
<p>Glad I found this thread. I too was wondering about HIMom–hope all is well!</p>
<p>A two-minute quake would fracture a lot of nerves if nothing else. Of course, I’m the anal type that looks at my watch to time a quake. Or maybe it’s better to say that I have a “journalistic bent.”</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope HIMom & family are okay.</p>
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<p>Oh my goodness, if THAT isn’t the quintessential Californian! Earth shakes, he of the unflappable “this happens all the time in California” bent calmly looks at his watch! </p>
<p>I had a French professor (assistant prof) in college who was offered a full professorship at the “Western Ivy” and said he turned it down because he was afraid of earthquakes. I am still scratching my head over that one.</p>
<p>Patient, TheMom is still a bit annoyed with me in that after the last big quake, a little over a decade ago, after forty minutes I turned around and went back to bed. There was no power and things were obviously bad but there was no iminient danger and a clear mind and rested body might be needed later in the day.</p>
<p>As for the looking at the watch thing, I think I was imprinted at an impressionable age with anecdotes about taking notes in emergencies, e.g., Pearl Harbor, the Titanic, so that things could be reconstructed later. I keep a pen and pad in the door pocket of my car, too.</p>
<p>A shout-out to HI Mom, whom I hope is alright…</p>
<p>Patient, TheDad is the one who once sported a t-shirt asking if “anal retentive” has a hyphen. ;)</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone! I’m honored to have my own thread & such kind and nurturing thoughts! Life was pretty interesting & a bit surreal for a while, but the good news is that there have been no reports of serious injuries or deaths due to the quake, which is a miracle in itself, given its 6.7 magnitude (updated today).
There were lots of power outages, including the entire island of Oahu, but fortunately, it appears most of the state finally has gotten power back (my folks were among the stragglers who just had power restored to their home Monday at 5pm (the quake was 7am Sunday).<br>
There was substantial property damage, especially on the Kona side of the Big Island of Hawaii, which is 14 or so miles from the underground, underwater epicenter. We are all VERY fortunate that there was no tidal wave, which could have caused vast destruction & death, possibly obliterating much/all of our state.
Hopefully our leaders will learn from all of this & help us be a bit more prepared for extended power outages & help figure out alternatives. The scene at the airport (from all accounts) was pretty grim, with so many stranded & not enough emergency power for the smooth running of our airport. The governor says we’ll get a much more powerful emergency generator for future needs (never had such an extended power outage in Honolulu ever before).
Oh yea, personally, tho a few things were knocked to the ground by the earthquake, not even my picture frames were broken! I just had to pick everything up & put them all back in place. Near the epicenter, TVs were knocked from dressers & stands & there was significant structural damage & over $40,000,000 preliminary estimate of damage to roadways & some public buildings, plus a lot to private property & resorts. Full damage assessment will take some time, even with the entire 75-person FEMA crew converging here.</p>