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Inappropriate Quotation Marks “Emergency Transportation”

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While waiting for the all-clear at Kihei Lutheran, found this trove of
inappropriate quote marks in their Community Outreach bulletin board.

They mean well, and offer some kind of "Emergency Transportation", a
"Choices" food program, and can do "Flyers" for special occasions.

Thanks to them for their hospitality while we waited out the tsunami.
They would have made a KILLING on a bake sale today, though!

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Title: Inappropriate Quotation Marks "Emergency Transportation"
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 27 Feb ’10, 5.06pm CST PST

View towards Highway 31

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We’re at Kihei Lutheran with other tourists and residents. A ok
waiting it out. #fb

Water system shut down soon as a precaution. We won’t see anything up
here, the waves that hit Tahiti were smaller than forecasted which is
apparently good sign for events in next hour.

Listening to local talk radio, some idiot woman was talking about
looting in Haiti after their devastating eathquake. Stupid! Meanwhile,
callers are talking about how their communities were mobilizing,
stockpiling propane gas bottles, organizing folks to get elders and
carless folks to higher ground.

Locals now starting to arrive up here, they took time to pack up
properly, bringing pets.

What we really need later, while waiting for all clear to get back on
road, is a BBQ truck and a shave ice wagon. For now upcountry local
residents seem to be packed up, readying to receive family and friends
from coastal evac zones.

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Title: View towards Highway 31
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 27 Feb ’10, 2.50pm CST PST

Tsunami evacuation: Kihei Lutheran Church

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We moved to a nearby church lot after getting coffee and bagels. Now
have power, water, restrooms, snacks. David now giving tech support on
how to send texts to other tourists that don’t know how.

Traffic light on Hwy 31. We heard that access to south Kihei Rd. will
be restricted, cops want it cleared by 10am.

Latest update we had is 7 ft waves expected at Kahului after 11am,
monitoring radio and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center website.

Friend is working at my office today (I’m a corporate travel agent)
reports OGG operating for now, no delays. Airport here is close to sea
level and I expect they’ll evac as a precaution anyway. Hilo Airport
(ITO) is closed.

Note, the Blue Moon Cafe near the Tesoro is open, but they weren’t
ready to serve food when I was there – cooking crew arrived to cheers
and applause, volunteers no longer making their own toast. The owner
was a little freaked out, she could barely pour coffee.

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Title: Tsunami evacuation: Kihei Lutheran Church
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 27 Feb ’10, 1.21pm CST PST

Tsunami Wave Action

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BULLETIN
TSUNAMI MESSAGE NUMBER 12
NWS PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER EWA BEACH HI
624 AM HST SAT FEB 27 2010

TO – CIVIL DEFENSE IN THE STATE OF HAWAII

SUBJECT – TSUNAMI WARNING SUPPLEMENT

A TSUNAMI WARNING CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME – 0834 PM HST 26 FEB 2010
COORDINATES – 36.1 SOUTH 72.6 WEST
LOCATION – NEAR COAST OF CENTRAL CHILE
MAGNITUDE – 8.8 MOMENT

MEASUREMENTS OR REPORTS OF TSUNAMI WAVE ACTIVITY

GAUGE LOCATION LAT LON TIME AMPL PER
——————- —– —— —– ————— —–
RIKITEA PF 23.1S 134.9W 1536Z 0.16M / 0.5FT 48MIN
DART MARQUESAS 5140 8.5S 125.0W 1531Z 0.18M / 0.6FT 18MIN
QUEPOS CR 0.0N 9.4E 1416Z 0.24M / 0.8FT 52MIN
BALTRA GALAPAGS EC 0.4S 90.3W 1452Z 0.35M / 1.2FT 14MIN
EASTER CL 27.2S 109.5W 1205Z 0.35M / 1.1FT 52MIN
ANCUD CL 41.9S 73.8W 0838Z 0.62M / 2.0FT 84MIN
CALLAO LA-PUNTA PE 12.1S 77.2W 1029Z 0.36M / 1.2FT 30MIN
ARICA CL 18.5S 70.3W 1008Z 0.94M / 3.1FT 42MIN
IQUIQUE CL 20.2S 70.1W 0907Z 0.28M / 0.9FT 68MIN
ANTOFAGASTA CL 23.2S 70.4W 0941Z 0.49M / 1.6FT 52MIN
DART LIMA 32412 18.0S 86.4W 0941Z 0.24M / 0.8FT 36MIN
CALDERA CL 27.1S 70.8W 0843Z 0.45M / 1.5FT 20MIN
TALCAHUANO CL 36.7S 73.4W 0653Z 2.34M / 7.7FT 88MIN
COQUIMBO CL 30.0S 71.3W 0852Z 1.32M / 4.3FT 30MIN
CORRAL CL 39.9S 73.4W 0739Z 0.90M / 2.9FT 16MIN
SAN FELIX CL 26.3S 80.1W 0815Z 0.53M / 1.7FT 08MIN
VALPARAISO CL 33.0S 71.6W 0708Z 1.29M / 4.2FT 20MIN

LAT – LATITUDE (N-NORTH, S-SOUTH)
LON – LONGITUDE (E-EAST, W-WEST)
TIME – TIME OF THE MEASUREMENT (Z IS UTC IS GREENWICH TIME)
AMPL – TSUNAMI AMPLITUDE MEASURED RELATIVE TO NORMAL SEA LEVEL.
IT IS …NOT… CREST-TO-TROUGH WAVE HEIGHT.
VALUES ARE GIVEN IN BOTH METERS(M) AND FEET(FT).
PER – PERIOD OF TIME IN MINUTES(MIN) FROM ONE WAVE TO THE NEXT.

EVALUATION

A TSUNAMI HAS BEEN GENERATED THAT COULD CAUSE DAMAGE ALONG
COASTLINES OF ALL ISLANDS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII. URGENT ACTION
SHOULD BE TAKEN TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY.

A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF LONG OCEAN WAVES. EACH INDIVIDUAL WAVE
CREST CAN LAST 5 TO 15 MINUTES OR MORE AND EXTENSIVELY FLOOD
COASTAL AREAS. THE DANGER CAN CONTINUE FOR MANY HOURS AFTER THE
INITIAL WAVE AS SUBSEQUENT WAVES ARRIVE. TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS
CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST.
TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT
RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE. THE TROUGH OF A TSUNAMI
WAVE MAY TEMPORARILY EXPOSE THE SEAFLOOR BUT THE AREA WILL
QUICKLY FLOOD AGAIN. EXTREMELY STRONG AND UNUSUAL NEARSHORE
CURRENTS CAN ACCOMPANY A TSUNAMI. DEBRIS PICKED UP AND CARRIED
BY A TSUNAMI AMPLIFIES ITS DESTRUCTIVE POWER. SIMULTANEOUS HIGH
TIDES OR HIGH SURF CAN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE TSUNAMI HAZARD.

THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS

1119 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010

FORECAST WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES AND AMPLITUDES CREST TO TROUGH.

HILO 1105AM HST 2.5 METERS
HONOLULU 1137AM HST 0.5 METERS
KAHULUI 1126AM HST 2.2 METERS
NAWILIWILI 1142AM HST

0.9 METERS
HALEIWA 0.5 METERS
KAWAIHAE 0.6 METERS

THESE ARE ONLY ESTIMATES…ACTUAL VALUES MAY DIFFER.

MESSAGES WILL BE ISSUED HOURLY OR SOONER AS CONDITIONS WARRANT.

Tsunami evacuation point Alanui Ke Ali’i school

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Monitoring Pacific Tsunami warning system site, wave heights reported
at Easter Island only a couple feet, expected to reach Hilo about
1105am HST, it’s currently 640am HST.

Could have taken the time to pack everything and bring snacks, will be
a long day.

Cops are here at the school now, listening to Hawaii Public Radio for
news – announcer very calm and helpful.

For context, it was a Chilean eathquake in 1960 that caused a
devastating tsunami to hit Hilo, with terrible loss of life. This is
serious, because although the waves may only be 1-2 feet high in The
Galapagos or Easter Island, local topography can funnel waves to
higher amplitudes.

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Title: Tsunami evacuation point Alanui Ke Ali’i school
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 27 Feb ’10, 10.47am CST PST

All Snorked Out

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Today being our last full day on Maui (booooooooooo!! WAAAAAAAAH!!) we went for one last snorkel swim at the far end of the beach from the condo. I had been talking big like “Oh, let’s go to this place south of Ka’anapali” that I read about in the Snorkel Maui Lanai and Molokai Guide but in the end my relaxed attitude towards early rising this last week led to some pretty late starts. That’s okay, we’re still on vacation! Anyway, we got our gear out and went down the beach for what turned out to be a pretty enjoyable snorkel. No turtles sighted, which means we’ve seen NO TURTLES AT ALL this trip (drat!) but I did see some fish roe that had been tacked to a rock, and plenty of small and big fish (including the biggest unicornfish yet, and something else that was even bigger that I’ll have to look up).

I just opened up the underwater case my small camera was in and was mostly disappointed with what I got – clearly, something was not set right on it. But I did get a few shots (all from today’s outing except for one of the very big pipefish-thing from Olowalu) that aren’t bad, if a little random. Whatever I photograph tends to swim to the edge of the image by the time I get the shutter depressed… darn.

Goatfish and Convict Tang

But after a little color-correction this one came out okay. I’m sad that some more dramatic stuff I photographed was totally smeared due to too much motion of me in the ocean… heh.