At 4 am hubby's cell phone rang and for some reason I decided to go find it. I didn't reach it in time but then the house phone rang. The last time we received a 4 am phone call it was September 11, 2001 so I tend to try and answer those calls. It was our friend Scott in Atlanta making sure we were aware that there was a Tsunamis warning for Hawaii. We checked the NOAA site and sure enough a Tsunamis had been generated and was scheduled to hit Hawaii around 11 am. Then we received a few texts. Not so easy to fall asleep after that but eventually we did. We decided to try to go out for breakfast the reasoning being to eat someone else's food and save ours in case things went bad. We walked down the hill to the coffee shop but it was closed, MacDonald's was closed, except the drive thru and the grocery store was packed so we headed home to a morning of Guy Hagi, weatherman extraordinary.
Thankfully the Tsunami didn't amount to much but I will say I'm impressed with how well the Civil Defense plan was put into action. We've been through a few black outs and know what a pain it can be. Hannah had a ton of questions but luckily we've talked about Tsunamis before and played with the models at the Bishop Museum so it wasn't a foreign concept. We're also not in a flood zone so we didn't have to evacuate or make any flood preparations. Its been a long day and we're still waiting to hear what this tsunamis is going to do in Japan where Uncle Harry and Auntie Tomomi are living.
