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Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: xxbakaboi808xx on October 16, 2006, 08:38:27 AM
hey all!! i just got power back so i thought id like to see if anyone else heard what happened. there were supposedly 2 earthquakes so i guess the third shaking i felt was an aftershock...it was so cool. i was without electricity for 13 hours. i live in waikiki and was walking around, and there were lines of tourists and people goin crazy! it was hilarious. all this just because they cant live without electricity. o well hope everyone NOT on this island had fun with their computers and internet...its time for me to make up for the time i didnt download.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Saburo on October 16, 2006, 08:51:08 AM
Well, I live in a condo near Ala Moana, twenty floors up.  I'm a pretty light sleeper to begin with so all that swaying...  You better believe it woke ME up.

There was a faint rumble in the distance and the blaring of sensitive car alarms.  It lasted a LONG time to me.  About quarter after seven I called home and my mom was already awake and thought the rumble was thunder.  Right then the power went pfffzzzzttph!! and has been dead until six-ish.

Hopefully Waikiki is up and running.  Haven't heard anything about price gouging (it HAS happened during hurricanes) but someone was apparently trying to siphon gas from people's cars in Mililani.

I'm at my folk's place near Diamond Head and I was told the power was back up in Kaka'ako, thank Rika!
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: lie2m3 on October 16, 2006, 08:59:08 AM
i just got power not to long ago... i'm in ewa beach. (8:30 pm) took hmmm 13 hours to get back on.

man it was upsetting for me today.  i work at the movie theaters and our boss wanted us to work to her words "see what we can do."  everyone who was there was thinking are you serious? (this was around 10 am).

people despite having no electric was coming to the theaters... and this one customer was waiting for us to open... what a :evil: lol.

anyone stood in the long malasada stands? hehe jk

hope everyone is okay! :)
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: daigong on October 16, 2006, 09:32:30 AM
WOW!! Like L-San said, glad all Hawaiian peeps are safe and sound. How're the roads and shit?? DAMN son. In the 6 range. Dj-B13 where u at? Thank Rika everyones okay indeed.

Oh shit...now they talking about the aftershocks.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: xxbakaboi808xx on October 16, 2006, 09:48:42 AM
the roads were so clogged in the morning...lol anyone else think hawaii is pretty much screwed if another one hits?...i thought i was prepared for a blackout...i guess not. UH better be closed damnit! lol you had to work...at the theaters?! wow. that really sucks...your boss must be a dumbass then to think that you could do something. o well. glad to see that everyone else is safe though
Title: Earthquake Sunday
Post by: Saburo on October 16, 2006, 10:25:38 AM
http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/10081080/detail.html
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Oct/15/br/br2546387190.html

I think everyone is doin' good now.  

However...  power seems to be distributed arbitrarily.  Some areas in Kaimuki were black as night, and then all was OK just a block or two away.  Back at my place, all is OK.  But there's an apartment nearby that looks like a big black rock in the darkness.  Also the cable in our building didn't kick back in until just about an hour ago (the thought of being in my place without my internet connection working is a traumatic one).

About the only bad things that happened today was:

-- No morning coffee
-- Missed the Mets-Cardinals game on teevee
-- Walked down 20 flights of stairs since the emergency power in the building went out
-- Listening to regular radio stations for info instead of the usual online sources
-- Being awoken and spooked by a DAMN EARTHQUAKE!
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: sumper on October 16, 2006, 12:15:23 PM
i'm in hawaii too....i just got my power back on at 11pm or so.  damn that first earthquake was freaky huh?????!!!!!!

it's scary because we actually had 3 today, plus 1 last month.  that's 4 in 2 months.....i wonder what that could mean?  *crosses fingers* *knocks on wood*
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 16, 2006, 12:20:06 PM
Quote from: daigong
WOW!! Like L-San said, glad all Hawaiian peeps are safe and sound. How're the roads and shit?? DAMN son. In the 6 range. Dj-B13 where u at? Thank Rika everyones okay indeed.

Oh shit...now they talking about the aftershocks.



haha Im back, I had no electricity since 6 AM haha and I just got it back on 6 mins ago!!!

man it was shaking so hard one point that the first thing on instinct was grab all my collectible statues off my SHELF haha :heart:
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: mckool on October 16, 2006, 12:57:08 PM
haha!

Dj-B13, you remind of me of my uncle out in LA.  When the quake hit, i heard from family that he put his entire body flat against his 'antique' collection shelf stack and guard it with himself =-)

what's in your collection??
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 16, 2006, 03:05:47 PM
Quote from: mckool
haha!

Dj-B13, you remind of me of my uncle out in LA.  When the quake hit, i heard from family that he put his entire body flat against his 'antique' collection shelf stack and guard it with himself =-)

what's in your collection??


hehe, well I have a bunch of Bowen Designs Marvel Mini-Bust statues and they are worth.......way too much :)
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Saburo on October 16, 2006, 06:21:13 PM
Quote from: Dj-B13
haha Im back, I had no electricity since 6 AM haha and I just got it back on 6 mins ago!!!

Damn!  Way the hell after midnight!

Assume you live in town?  That's mad crazy!  I must have been lucky then...
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 17, 2006, 03:54:19 AM
Quote from: Saburo
Damn!  Way the hell after midnight!

Assume you live in town?  That's mad crazy!  I must have been lucky then...



haha yep I live in Town alright :)
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: xxbakaboi808xx on October 17, 2006, 04:02:13 AM
i just came back from alaz, there were SO many tourists...i guess earthquakes give tourists the urge to shop
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 17, 2006, 05:10:14 AM
Quote from: xxbakaboi808xx
i just came back from alaz, there were SO many tourists...i guess earthquakes give tourists the urge to shop



indeed it does haha :heart: .

gotta love Hawaii!
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: sumper on October 17, 2006, 06:02:38 AM
shopping at safeway yesterday was pretty cool.  it was all dark and i had to use my little keychain flash light to see my way around.  it was like a haunted house.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: daigong on October 17, 2006, 06:20:29 AM
whoa, so many Hawaiians XD those tourists are crazy...photographing anything.

how often do earthquakes occur?
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: xxbakaboi808xx on October 17, 2006, 06:29:35 AM
aww i wish i could shop in the dark...that sounds really fun...oh and school didnt close...which is total bull...youd THINK the teachers would be lenient...since some people were unable to get to computers...but o well....fucking UH...
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 17, 2006, 06:32:57 AM
Quote from: daigong
whoa, so many Hawaiians XD those tourists are crazy...photographing anything.

how often do earthquakes occur?



this was basically the 1st one ever in history.:D
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: xxbakaboi808xx on October 17, 2006, 06:50:26 AM
lol earthquakes....umm this is the first one ive experienced here...and ive been living here for like 17 years...(i just turned 18 )...
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: chera on October 17, 2006, 09:06:49 AM
Good to know you guys and gals are all right.

No power..... 9 months from now, will we be seeing a large batch of little japanese JPH!P'ers? :)
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: sumper on October 17, 2006, 02:11:33 PM
Quote from: xxbakaboi808xx
lol earthquakes....umm this is the first one ive experienced here...and ive been living here for like 17 years...(i just turned 18 )...


really?  just a couple of months ago we had this one

http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/29/news/story04.html (http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/29/news/story04.html)

i remember everyone was talking about it, but i didn't feel a thing.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 17, 2006, 02:30:08 PM
Quote from: sumper
really?  just a couple of months ago we had this one

http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/29/news/story04.html (http://starbulletin.com/2006/08/29/news/story04.html)

i remember everyone was talking about it, but i didn't feel a thing.



yea that was onebut it was a minor one. The one that just happened recently was the first real deal though.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Happosai on October 17, 2006, 03:00:02 PM
Quote from: chera
...No power..... 9 months from now, will we be seeing a large batch of little japanese JPH!P'ers? :)


...because all kids born in Hawaii are japanese, of course... eh ??? :confused:
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 17, 2006, 03:10:01 PM
Quote from: Happosai
...because all kids born in Hawaii are japanese, of course... eh ??? :confused:



actually...almost are haha
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Saburo on October 18, 2006, 07:47:43 AM
Is anyone's Oceanic digital cable box fucked up?

I waited about 90 minutes at Sears Ala Moana today to exchange my old box which had zero power after the quake.  OK, no problem.

Plugged it in just now and I'm getting ZERO signal output.  Time display is OK but...  nothing's coming out.  Of course I call the systems status hotline and of course the phone lines are JAMMED.

Not good...
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: sumper on October 18, 2006, 08:29:13 AM
sorry...i don't have digital yet : (  do you thinks it's because of the earthquake?
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Saburo on October 18, 2006, 08:32:21 AM
Update: reset it again, fiddled with the cords...  NOW all is good.

Even outputs some of the other premium stations I'm NOT paying for, like some "sensual" show on Cinemax!  Haaaah!  I figure all will be reset in 24 hours.
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 18, 2006, 10:05:09 AM
Another thing that I noticed after the Quake.

I can't login into my X-Box live account *Xboxers out here in Hawaii* that is the Suks :cry: .

any of you can that live here in 808?
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Saburo on October 18, 2006, 10:25:03 AM
Quote from: xxbakaboi808xx
...but o well....fucking UH...


I think UH is still more worried about flooding than earthquakes in the future...
Title: earthquakes in hawaii
Post by: Dj-B13 on October 18, 2006, 12:02:18 PM
Quote from: Saburo
I think UH is still more worried about flooding than earthquakes in the future...



yep...of course.