Tsunami Madness On The North Shore!

Monday, March 1st, 2010  Posted by stuart

Just about all of you know about the Chilian earthquake which occured last night and the resulting threat which had all of Hawaii on full alert till well into the afternoon. I started the day out being woken by about a dozen tourists packing all their stuff into their cars out in the parking lot from 2.00 – 5.00am yeah, took ‘em 3 hours to finally piss off. Following that was the air raid sirens every hour, starting at 6am.

We made our way down to the gas station at Sunset beach only to find that they’d closed it right on down. Then back on the road down to Foodland where they were letting people in, but only so many at a time. That only lasted an hour before they shut it down. The most popular items that filtered out of there were bottled water and toilet paper. We got a bunch of both ourselves. The other things that were moving out the door at a pretty brisk pace were large bags of ice and beer.

I spoke to my neighbor Josh who pilots the helicopoter out of Turtle Bay and he told me that he was probably taking it up to avoid any possible damage from tsnunami’s and he invited me to join him. It was my intention to fly over Rocky Point on the north shore and document the difference between the surge and the wave, over some of these reef. So we continued to watch the progress in Hilo and it just didn’t really pan out in the end. So, it was all a bit of a no-show, but really, we are all very thankful too.

Sean

Here are some glimpses from my day here on the north shore….