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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 03-12-2011 04:25 PM
quote: Claude Ayakawa
Although there were no loss of life in Hawaii, there was considerable property damage on all of the major islands. A lot of small boat harbors lost some moorings and people who did not take their craft out to sea had their vessel smash into piers and other boats. Some were washed away. The Kona coast on the big island of Hawaii suffered the most damage when eighteen homes and apartments were either destroyed or suffered major damage. A house was swept away and found floating at Kealakekua Bay, the site where Captain James Cook and some of his men were killed by the the local natives in 1779.
I thought of you when I first heard this story break, which was early morning on Friday our time. On weekday mornings I phone my girlfriend in Colton, CA (about 80 miles inland from the southern California coast) at 0500 my time / 2100 hers and we talk for an hour or so before I leave for work. On Friday, she'd heard the first news of the earthquake, but because I'd just got up and gone through the shower without having put the radio on, it was news to me. At that time, there were fears that the tsunami would devastate the entire Pacific islands and cause major damage to the west coast of the US, all the way from Alaska to San Diego. By late yesterday afternoon it seemed that thankfully those fears had not been realised. The Friday evening news broadcasts in Britain basically took the line that, apart from the one Darwin award nominee in Crescent City (sorry if that sounds a bit callous, but he was trying to surf the tsunami...), there had been no significant damage; and they specifically said that Hawaii was OK. Very sorry to hear that the infrastructural damage was in fact substantial, but of course glad that there don't seem to have been any injuries or deaths.
In the end, there was nothing of any consequence on the SoCal coast, but my other half was obviously a bit nervous. She has some very close friends in Santa Monica, who we've visited a few times, and I quipped yesterday that I was glad that we weren't sitting in a restaurant she likes that is just across the street from the pier there.
Captain Cook certainly seems to have had a knack for visiting the sites of natural disasters, about 300 years before they happened! He landed near Christchurch, too. Sitting here writing this about 50 miles from his birthplace and 40 from where he spent most of his childhood, I'm starting to get a tinsy bit nervous...
All that having been said, of course, my thoughts are with everyone in northern Japan. The infrastructural recovery from the Kobe earthquake took a decade and cost around $100bn, and from what I gather this disaster is an order of magnitude bigger.
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