Hawaiian Earthquake: Anyone heard from RangerREG?

[jaerdaph]

I know the power is still out in many parts of Hawaii so REG might not have internet access back up yet. I hope he's okay.

REG, be sure to check in and let us know you are okay. You folks in Hawaii are in my thoughts.

 

[Harmon]

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Hope everyone is well. By the looks of things they got a nice little shaking.

 

[megamania]

I have no TV and the news site I use on the internet isn't saying anything about it. How strong of a quake and when?

 

[jaerdaph]

It happened yesterday, 6.7 with aftershocks in the 5s, and mudslides. Miraculously, nobody is believed to have been killed.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

He was trapped in a cave with a number of other people, but luckily he had some gaming books and extra dice.

 

[Ranger REG]

He was trapped in a cave with a number of other people, but luckily he had some gaming books and extra dice.

No, I was trapped inside a small game store with a number of morbidly obese gamers, myself included, and not one of them is a woman. And yet I could have sworn one of them screamed like a little girl.



Dudes and Dudettes, I'm fine. I'm on the island of Oahu, so we didn't get the worst of the event, unlike the Big Island folk. The only gripe is that it took forever to get powers back on. Our plant had them big turbines that as a safety precaution they must shut down in the event of seismic activity. Kinda like trying to rock a laundry machine during the spin cycle. My neighborhood was one of the last power grids to be turned on (2 am HST). It only makes me hate Pearl City/Aiea residents even more (it's a polite kind of hate), who got their electricity power first.

RE: Big Island, they took the brunt of the incident ... twice (I didn't felt the major aftershock after the quake). A major hospital suffered structural damage that prompted evacuation as a precaution. Two major "warehouse" stores suffered structural damage, not a roof collapse. But no fatality nor seroius injury to report. BTW, our governor was on the Big Island when it happened.

Most if not all major overseas flights have been cancelled after 7:30am. So today, they're playing catch-up.

Nice to know that CNN covered the news, even though we don't know what is being covered, except what is relayed through one of the few radio stations that managed to get back on-air.

 

[jaerdaph]

Glad to hear you're okay.

 

[Ranger REG]

Glad to hear you're okay.

Yeah, but I'm still waiting for a sinkhole to open up under me.

 

[megamania]

Good to know you and the other islanders are okay. I can't imagine being in a decent quake. I've been in one as high as a 3.3 but that's nothing to yours.

 

[jaerdaph]

Yeah, but I'm still waiting for a sinkhole to open up under me.

Better under the Blockbuster than you.