Hawaii's Tsunami-Hurricane Sandy
 

Aloha,

Last night I was online and got a phone call from a friend. She said that
we were under a tsunami warning. This was about 9:00pm. Tuned to news channel on t.v. and started phone calls.

I live at quite a safe distance/elevation from shore. Luckily the islands were
not hit hard as the previous tsunamies.

My thoughts and best wishes go out to those members on the eastern seaboard and surrounding areas. May you weathers as well as possible.

Be Safe and Keep in Touch.

Aloha...

So far NYC is not bad. Rode into Manhattan today twice from Queens and its just windy and a bit of mist. They say it may get worse though.

This should clean the rest of the leaves off the oak trees!

Thanks for the good wishes Onomea. New Hampshire should only get a glancing blow but the guys further down the coast in the New Jersey area are going to take the brunt of it. Hope all the weather forecasters are wrong and it makes a right turn!

Hilo has been spanked many time over the years by tsunamis.
A tsunami that really hit Hilo hard was 1960. A 8.3 quake in the Chile did that one. The 9.2 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Prince William Sound really didn't do much in Hawai'i.

Glad to hear it Wes. Stay safe out there and best wishes to everyone in the northeast.

Aloha,
Thanks for the acknowledgements. The '60 wave hit on April 1. Some people thought it was a "joke". Lost a lot of natives, as the tide receided kids went out to get fish that were stranded. When the wave came back in lots of kids/people were lost. Really sad.

Florida not affected too much Beau? Glad to hear.
smokinjoe73 and NH-Raptor, Be Safe/Stay Well!

Stay Well, Everyone. Aloha....

The eye of the storm is supposed to travel right over our county! :eek::eek: I hope we don't lose any trees!! Can't imagine we'll get much sleep tonight.

Well trying to scare the kids & just watched Nightmare on Elm St. 2 - woof what a bad movie.

Anyway, back to news, storm eye is still 120 miles off Jersey Shore & they're already flooded big time. Saw pics from Ocean City, NJ & it looks to be about 3' of water already in the streets. Hope my cousins place doesn't get whacked too bad (house is elevated)

Wind is picking up by me, blowing from the north in Lehigh Valley due to storm spinning

Generator is ready to go :)

The house across the street from me just got hit by a large falling tree, lots of cracking noise when it went down. I hope no one suffer any significant losses of any kind.
Get yourself ready with flash lights, water and anything else may help if we loose power, that would probably be the most common issue.

About 12 hours w/ out power, trees down all over the place and did I mention the flooding! My father had a large pine tree fall within 8' of his new Tundra. WOW!

News says 29 dead and some people may be without electric for 7-10 days.

Yea man it's messed up, I checked on my family in NYC and they have hundreds of trees down and with them the power lines, not to mention floods as well...
We had it allot less in my neck of the woods, but I still spent all night pumping manually water from the basement... sump pump didn't do the job.

Upon further observation. This storm is bad. Power went out here in Queens. Trees down. Had to listen to an ipod hooked up to motorcycle battery for juice. City is crippled! Millions without power, 120 homes burnt.

I am sure you guys see the news. No subways. Very apocalyptic.

Wish everyone in New Jersey and NY best of luck, and hope they come out
of this with the least possible damage. No one should loose their homes this
way. And hurrican season is not over yet...

Sandy is a bitch.

hope everyone that side of the pond is ok

I'm sure most have seen the absolute devastation of NY & NJ plus parts of Ct.

I'm originally from NENJ (10 mins from NYC), some still don't have power, wait up to 4 hrs for gas (they started gas rations today, based on license plate #s).

In Lehigh Valley, I lost power twice, Mon into Tues for 22 hrs & Thursday for 3 hrs. Some around here still w/out power. I'm lucky to have a small generator, so I was able to keep refrig & TV going (though cable went out) I feel very lucky. Some in my area still w/out power.


All my close friends in NJ w/out power as I write this. One friend installed a automatic generator in his house over the Summer, so it runs his whole casa, lucky fcuker.

Some other points

Jersey Shore where I take family during Summers is beyond devastation, really is unreal to see, can't imagine what it looks like up close.

NY's Staten Island, Long Beach, Long Island, Queens & Brooklyn - Wow some areas look like someone bombed it.

Mayor Bloomy really fcuked up w/ NY Marathon. A family friend flew in & an hour later they canceled it. That should have been done on Tuesday.


Thoughts & Prayers to those affected.