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Originally Posted by wodin
Good to see your OK Grace; for the record what really went down over there? Not what CNN or Joe Moore reported. Over here on O`ahu, we had some roads closed during the actual tsunami watch as a precaution, and a little damage to some boats and at some of the marinas.
All State and County workers were off and all but one of the schools were closed, but it was a furlough day anyway. My trash didn't get picked up until Saturday.
KHVH reported that all Federal workers (me) were "encouraged to stay home", but I was almost at work when I heard that so I went ahead and went in anyway. Lucky for me, ‘cause it was a figment of someone’s imagination. We had one man who didn’t show up, and he got into a little trouble.
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If you google the area and "tsunami," you see lots of video of the downtown drag under water, and what Bubba Gump restaurant in particular looked like. There's a lovely vid of a dumpster (huge orange dumpster) floating down the street, and a vid of a house floating away in Kealakekua Bay. I know it caused quite a bit of damage, but the damage was to a limited number of locations. It cracked me up that the stations were showing closures of schools, when all the DOE public schools were on furlough anyway!
They did keep one road closed for a good part of the day as they tried to clean up debris and such.