Almost Paradise

This morning’s earthquake was something. It was the strongest quake I have ever felt, my time in California included (1983-1988). We were still in bed, and the house shook and the bifold closet doors rattled like crazy. It lasted for quite a few seconds, and was followed by a second one of comparable size and length a couple of minutes later. Wow.

We were out of power from a few minutes after the quake, at about 7:10am this morning, to about 8:30pm tonight. It’s now 10:50pm and our broadband connection is finally back up!

It was a loooooong day at home with no power, listening to the radio and not doing much of anything. The hardest part was not being able to plan anything, in the absence of reliable information on how long the outage would last. When evening drew close and we still didn’t have electricity, we hauled out the Weber and grilled some chicken for dinner. But by the end of dinner, the radio was saying that HECO was bringing neighborhoods back online one at a time, so we were pretty confident that we’d have power before morning, which we did.

Boy. Now imagine the same thing, except with severe injuries and property damage, and it gets scary real fast.

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