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How you doing Pikko? Story

Most people I've spoken to over there say the large island had power soonest, it was the furthest that was still down. I have no idea where Pikko is. I just hope she and hers are all doing ok. I'm terrorfied of Earth Quakes, one of the main reasons I wont go to Cali if I can help it.


PS.

To my adoring camper, SUCK MY BALLS.



That is all.

Edited, Oct 15th 2006 at 4:48pm PDT by Katie

As long as we are talking about proof, I want proof you werent born with your head up your ***.

Pikko called, they are fine, house is fine, no power.

She will be back soon

We *finally* have power again! Woo!!

I got woken up by the quake this morning and the entire house was shaking. I've been in quakes before because I grew up on the Big Island where we have earthquakes from the Kilauea volcano, but it was still pretty big. I live on Oahu and while we were like 150 miles away from the quake we had our power restored last. All the neighbor islands had power back much quicker because they are on smaller systems while the Oahu system apparently takes 10-14 hours to come back online.

When it happened it was more scary to learn that there was no power in the entire state. There were no radio stations and no news whatsoever. We could only catch two stations. One was playing a recording of a talk radio show from like 2004 and the other was playing Hawaiian music but no one was there to talk. Finally about an hour after the quake two of the Clear Channel stations were able to get their generators up and everyone listened to them for news. All day they took calls from people reporting things.

We packed up and went to the inlaws as is our plan in case of emergencies, though we didn't take any of our supplies because hubby thought it wasn't necessary yet. The stores were packed as people rushed to buy things and at some stores only 4 people were allowed in at once.

No power apparently means my brain gets fried. When DF called me up my voicemail connection wasn't so good so I was like, "Who the heck is Deah?" They'd been telling people to stay off the phones so I didn't call her back until much later when electricity started coming back on. While I was talking to her I was like, "Who is this?" She was like, "This is your boss, Deah!!!" I figured it was her, but I was thinking, ok I swear she has a different first name, who in the world am I talking to? It was only after I hung up that I realized she was saying her name was "DF" instead of her real name. UH-DUH. So yeah, that's why I sounded like such an airhead.

Buddy boy looked kinda shocked but I think my daughter slept right through it. Everything's fine, nothing in the house is broken or anything. And most important of all, my breast milk stock is still frozen. I was freaking out over it all day and thankfully not opening the freezer even once kept it rock hard until the power came back on.

I'm glad to hear that all of you are ok.


See Git, a tornado you can prepare for and run from. Storm shelters FTW. Earthquakes just kind of happen.