Hawaiian Earthquake: Anyone heard from RangerREG?

[Infiniti2000]

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

You're not in Florida, so you're fairly safe.

 

[Shemeska]

FWIW, one of the last two large Hawaiian earthquakes before this latest one, I was there on the big island when it happened. Vacation during 4th grade. Ground felt like a waterbed.

Glad to hear that everyone there is doing well outside of the inconveniance.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

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.

He he... I was less than 10 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake in '89 - 17 years ago today, as a matter of fact. 6.9 on the richter scale.

 

[Mycanid]

You're not in Florida, so you're fairly safe.

Hah! Try living near the California coast right near the Andreas fault. Phooey. But I'd rather be here than any place else ... although when earthquakes do hit they are kinda scary - to say the least!

My parents live on an island off the south coast of Alaska and they get a couple earthquakes every year ... AND tsunamis every so often. Now THAT is scary.

 

[Harmon]

He he... I was less than 10 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake in '89 - 17 years ago today, as a matter of fact. 6.9 on the richter scale.

We had a bunch of old footage on the local TV about it today.

I was in Seaside, getting into the shower after work. Ended up helping get an old woman out of her home in Santa Cruz- she was surrounded by broken glass and could not get out of her chair. I was asked to hike into her home to find out how she was- long dammed walk.

 

[Ranger REG]

You're not in Florida, so you're fairly safe.

Yeah, I'm very lucky ... nay, blessed ... NOT to live in Florida.

 

[dragonhead]

Yeah, I'm very lucky ... nay, blessed ... NOT to live in Florida.

I have visited florida once, and i was glad when i came home.

 

[Ranger REG]

I was in Seaside, getting into the shower after work. Ended up helping get an old woman out of her home in Santa Cruz- she was surrounded by broken glass and could not get out of her chair. I was asked to hike into her home to find out how she was- long dammed walk.

In your birthday suit, or did you have a towel on you?

 

[Ranger REG]

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.

Well, I don't know if DSL broadband was working since I'm a dial-up customer. AFAIK, the telephone line is working (luckily I had a backup CORDED phone) during the island-wide outage because Hawaiian Telcom have a backup power generator that feeds through their lines anyway.

But it is the power outage that keeps my desktop puter from powering up.

Yeah, I think my next (or replacement) PC will have to be a laptop ... with spare fully-charged batteries (plural). Anybody know where I could shop for a hardcase laptop, the kind Hawkins used on the Jericho TV series?

 

[Harmon]

In your birthday suit, or did you have a towel on you?

LOL

I suppose I should have assumed that someone would see it that way. No, I had started the shower, the quake hit, power went out, but I managed a cold shower, then dressed and went to my Dad's to make sure he was okay. He got a call from a friend that had a mother that lived in the hills above Santa Cruz. Dad dropped me off with directions, and I started walking some time that night, the following morning I arrived.