[Rockhounds] Hawaii earthquake & hurricane

[teresa jetter]

Prayers for you and your family.
Teri Jetter
--- Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Last night as we were preparing for hurricane
> Flossie we were jolted 
> by a 5.4 earthquake.  This brought back memories of
> the 6.7 one last 
> October, but it wasn't as bad, of course.  The
> epicenter was in the 
> area of Kilauea.  At our house a few things tipped
> over or fell to 
> the floor---including some rocks.  The only thing
> that broke was a 
> very old bottle that we found in the ground when our
> house was being 
> built;  sad to lose an old curiosity, but it was
> free, after all!
> 
> This morning we just finished securing things
> outside that could 
> become missiles in the wind---like garbage cans and
> lanai 
> furniture.  We're expecting 50 mph winds this
> afternoon, and we're 
> already getting lots of rain.  There's a flash flood
> watch in place, 
> but our house is on a hill, so there should be no
> problem there.  We 
> are beginning to see a small pond and a stream
> running through our 
> yard, however.  We should be safe from wind because
> our house is very 
> strongly built;  for example, instead of standard
> hurricane straps we 
> have 1/4-inch steel plates that bolt all the
> overhead structure 
> together, and the posts to the piers in the ground. 
> And we have 
> plenty of rocks to weigh things down!
> 
> Hawaii is a neat place to live, but between
> earthquakes, hurricanes, 
> floods, tsunamis and lava flows, there are enough
> hazards to 
> counterbalance the pleasures!  That's what makes it
> interesting as 
> long as precautions are taken.
> 
> Aloha, Kitty
> 
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