Hawaii Quake
Aloha! Janelle and I are safe and sound on Oahu, HI post quake.
I was at breakfast yesterday when the quake hit! I was dishing up scrambled eggs from the buffet when the building started shaking! We had storms scheduled to roll in and my first thought was, "This is one heck of a wind accompanying the storm!" Then the shaking continued and I remembered my daughter telling me their were earth quake tremors in Hawaii and I quickly realized the earth was a quaking!
More later. . .back to the conference.
I was at breakfast yesterday when the quake hit! I was dishing up scrambled eggs from the buffet when the building started shaking! We had storms scheduled to roll in and my first thought was, "This is one heck of a wind accompanying the storm!" Then the shaking continued and I remembered my daughter telling me their were earth quake tremors in Hawaii and I quickly realized the earth was a quaking!
More later. . .back to the conference.
posted by Jeannine Hirtle @ 10/16/2006 12:42:00 PM
4 Comments:
At 10/16/2006 2:52 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
Glad y'all are safe. We were watching the news coverage at Bible study last night. I had just asked where the looters were at when they showed everyone standing in an orderly line outside the 7-11 waiting their turns. We had to laugh.
Anyway, check out the new map I added to the blog on the right hand side of the blog. It showed your connection from Honolulu. We had a visitor from Israel yesterday. I decided to try this new map on the blog today because it does not forget our visitors like the free Mapstats does. The Israel visitor was before this new map. I wish I had it on earlier. We had a visitor from the Ivory Coast last week.
Glad you are both safe, and thanks for adding your connection from HI to the map. Makes us look even more global.
I am sitting here waiting for the K12Online Conference keynote from David Warlick to begin. Listen in if you get a chance.
At 10/16/2006 7:20 PM,
Katherine said…
Wow, you can now say you've been in an earthquake! Hope you can get home. Kat
At 10/16/2006 10:36 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
Hey-I'll get in ASAP. I'm pretty full time at this conference and trying to grade etc when I have Internet access.
I don't want to go on cognitive overload. I'm just comfortably interested and challenged right now! But, I'll enjoy yours and Pete's posts and jump in when I can.
I will go back and listen to David Warlick!
Right now, it's a little after 7 PM Hawaii time, and I'm sitting on the terrace drinking coffee and listening to a group play Hawaiian music. There is a soft breeze blowing, all the power is back on, the surf is softly rolling in in the background, and one would never know we were fumbling around in the dark yesterday, standing in line for food, and wondering how everyone was!
Aloha!
At 10/16/2006 10:49 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
The lights immediately went out, and I thought, "Well, I'll just sit down and finish breakfast anyway." It was a tad concerning that the restaurant employees looked kind of worried. Apparently quakes like this aren't the norm in Hawaii--this one was caused by seismic activity beneath the volcano on the Big Island.
First, the restaurant manager announced breakfast was free, so I kicked back to relax, and then he came back out and said unless we left right then we'd be paying charges manually, so I took off to the lanai to sit out the uncertainty with other guests and E-Learn participant.
Clouds covered the skies outside and a steady rain poured cooling off the temps and the guests!
I ended up sitting out the first couple of hours with a couple of professors from Eastern Kentucky university--we chatted, read the papers and began trying to get word out to family via cell phones.
Our first news was that a quake had rippled over from China. That sounded like a good set up for a tsunami to me, so I was concerned, along with everyone else. But, shortly the hotel manager came out and said he had been in touch with the tsunami center and one was not expected. Whew!
Then we heard that the quake occured in Maui. Folks were citing numbers and it sounded official. Then we heard that the quake occured on the Big Island, and I think bottom line is that it occurred off the big island some miles. I think the official score was like 6.7 on the richter scale.
Around 9 our conference admins came out and said the conference would go on, and we did. But first I went to church --St. Augustine's--a few blocks away and just appreciated the constancy and familiarity of the liturgy there. Then I walked on back to the conference and went to classes the rest of the afternoon.
People were very orderly in the hotel and the town. We all queued up and if there were complaints I didn't hear any. We all were kind of in the same boat--glad to have everything go as well as it did, and patiently awaiting the return of power.
Our hotel is 32 stories high so we did a bit of stair climbing. Luckily I was on the 5th floor. We also really reached out to talk to folks--we do that any way at conferences, but I think more so yesterday.
I ended up qeuing (how do I spell that word?) for an hour for a buffet the hotel restaurant valiantly put on! The chefs were outside barbqueing like crazy. I met professors from Penn State, one of whom was presenting on the "Zen of Wiki's." We had a great conversation and I enjoyed attending her session today!
More later to this add on saga.
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