We survived nature's fury! Sorry I could only scrounge up a satellite picture. I'm sure you were all hoping for a picture of bending palm trees and Danny flying through the air with an umbrella but Flossie was a total failure and complete letdown. On Monday (day before the storm) we were out buying toilet paper, rice and water. Unlike other parts of the country where you stock up on other things for an emergency, the word here is buy as much toilet paper and rice as possible. Who knew? Anyhow, on the day hell was supposed to rain down it was sunny, warm, and eerily quiet. Danny spent the day out on the water and said it was actually quite pleasant. GEEZ! They closed schools, banks, declared a state of emergency and essentially told everyone to stay indoors. It was actually quite funny in the end.
Meanwhile...the night before the hurricane there was 5.3 mag earthquake just south of Hilo (other side of the island) that I felt! It was at 7:30pm and was strong enough for me to feel it while sitting down and make the doors on the tv armoire sway back and forth. That was VERY exciting!
THEN, last but not least, the day following Flossie, there was a tsunami warning issued due to an earthquake off the coast of Peru and 25 miles below the ocean surface. The tsunami DID, in fact, hit the island but it was only a foot or something lame like that. So for two days in the middle of the week we had QUITE a buffet of natural occurences. We're glad none were deadly or destructive and hope they stay that way in the future. Though we were a little excited at the propspect of using the shake of the earthquake to cook our jiffypop on the propane stove we would be using because of powerloss due to the heavy hurricane force winds while watching people flee the coast from the monster wave washing up over the island. We live at 11oo ft so it would've been very entertaining, especially since our tv would've been out. HA!
Aloha!
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