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Two weeks ago I traveled with my husband and my father to meet up with my brother and his wife on the Big Island of Hawaii.
I have been there a few times before, but this time was different since so much of my own family was there.
I love the Big Island because it so diverse.Two weeks ago I traveled with my husband and my father to meet up with my brother and... more
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Latest Complete News Updates This time of year we see lots of pictures of our favorite celebrities sunning themselves and their families on the beaches of Hawaii. A small earthquake hit Hawaii on Thursday, with a jolt felt across Honolulu.Latest Complete News Updates This time of year we see lots of pictures of our favorite... more
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sun 7:35 update Civil Defense and the 'Blueberries' (nickname for popo in hawai'i as they usually use their own vehicles and slap a blue light on top) did an amazing job keeping an entire state out of the water, because the innocent-looking one-foot punch, or footer tsunami, had hidden debris and dangerous turbulence.
The legendary Hilo farmer's market held at the centuries-infamous tsunami-magnet of Hilo Bay was closed Saturday, Just-picked organic white pineapple [just too sweet to be shipped to mainland, seems the sweeter fruits have very short storage times], fragrant rambutan, melony longon, and striped pink lemons, as well as more recognizeable fruits were packed back in the trucks.
it was really the incredible juicy (because of rainforest downpours) navel oranges i was most after, they probably won't have that at the hippish Maku'u market today.
We received notes and calls of concern - ''my heart goes out to you in your time of crisis'', so i thought i'd clear up some Hawai'i info, as i know it, here-
--My particular island, Hawai'i island is like a mini-continent. over 4,000 square miles, almost all of it soaring from the get-go over sea level. we are like the opposite of Florida and their water damage issues. WE get SNOW. I live 12 MILES and 1600 ft elevation from shore. The tsunami was predicted to reach 2 blocks , and 3-8 ft of elevation, [at very most].
Well, i can still see the ocean from my dirt street [too many trees to see it from my land].
With the unending sirens noone, not even a bird, will be blissfully walking the tidepools unaware of what a suddenly exposed ocean bed means . Though most of the coastline is fortitudinous cliffs.
The major events enshrined by the bay-facing Tsunami Museum happened here before the installation of sirens, back when people rebuilt onto the same vulnerable hot spot here after every life-losing disaster. Finally, a common-sense law was passed and that stretch of waters edge became open space.
The Hilo Bay tsunami magnet now has a long lava-rock seawall built across most of the mouth of the bay, keeping the spectacle of an underwater coconut island [the acre-plus island popular with birthdays and bbqs inside of the large bay], from happening]. There is a movement to remove the seawall and restore SURFING to the heart of downtown Hilo-that probably lost a little steam yesterday.
The damage caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by having a large population practically living on the beach, on a string of coral atolls- pictaresque low islands barely reaching out of the ocean. A lot of tourists drinking Thai beer atop a pile of shells. With NO warning, as the earthquake was locally generated. Everyone and their mother knew a tsunami was heading to Hawai'i.
A major Local earthquake, -there was a teensy one off of Kalapana on Saturday-, would trigger a tsunami with maybe 30 seconds notice to climb back up the cliff. i was here for the 10/15/06 6.7 Big Island quake, we were going full force on the highway when i saw a car fishtailing into the opposite side of the cliff-carved Hwy 11, and this thick beige cloud appeared out of nowhere in front of us. All the cars on the highway stopped. I didn't know what the cloud was till it cleared. It was peaceful. It was a hail of Flinstone boulders and rock from the cliff above, making a temporary rock garden park out of a road where I've known drivers to go 90 mph. The quake triggered a warning but not a wave, and cost an est. $100 mill in damages. The epicenter was an area Bill Gates is rumored to have a house in. Ask him what happened.
All that said, seeing a tsunami hitting multi-directionally on Hawai'i island, still would have inspired a bit of awe.
Here is a link to a permanent live Hilo Bay webcam run by the Tsunami museum :http://www.tsunami.org/hilobaycam.html As you might know, yesterday was clear blue-sky, calm, and temp in the early early 80s. Right now you can tell from the live cam it is wet and grey and has been pouring since the afternoon into the night. I appreciated the beautiful day that was yesterday.
saturday's story is at: http://current.com/items/92235243_tsunami-expected-to-wrap-around-hawaii-island.htm#92237846
Thanks for reading!sun 7:35 update Civil Defense and the 'Blueberries' (nickname for popo in... more
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6:13 pm hst updates: Aside from the tiny reported surges, all in Hawaii is peaceful and safe. Civil Defense managed to get the entire state out of the water. They're good. The ''Blueberries', local slang for the police department (because officers here use their own vehicles and strap a blue light on top), successfully shut access to 750 miles of sometimes isolated shoreline, and it's high-velocity, debris-filled surf of seemingly innocent heights.
The last chapter is at http://current.com/items/92243903_aquacalypse-not-epilogue-of-a-teensy-tsunami-from-the-big-island-of-hawaii.htm
The earlier story: Tsunami sirens finally turn off. Then they turn on again. It's Blitz. A tsunami is expected to hit the coastal areas of the Big Island (Hawai'i island) first around 11:05 today hst, then proceed to the other islands in the state of Hawaii. The tidal wave was be generated by the reported 8.8 Chilean earthquake.
Hawaii state and Big Island residents are generally expected to be very safe as there is five hours of warning, and all have ample elevation to ascend to . After all, Hawai'i Island is home to the tallest mountain in the world if measured from sea floor to pinnacle. Big Wave, meet Big Mountain. The office for the Cannabis Ministry, you know, the one that legally gives away free baggies of 'weed' as a sacrament, is in the evacuation zone. So is the Tsunami museum. Hope the people that live in the seaside caves off of Kea'au to Kalapana have their B plan.
For more info go to Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - http://www.prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=2&id=hawaii.2009.09.30.050107
12:19 hst update:
We have been three blocks away from Hilo Bay front, home of the tsunami, for more than an hour. [Running TOWARDS the ghost town barricades as the sirens got louder as we got closer, and closer to 11:05 was surreal.] Nothing yet, just some turbulence. There is a live feed going on right now at Coconut Island, our little island park off the coast. That piece of land is barely above sea level. It's about to host SpongeBob's friends. I brought a telescope and video camera makai, but there's nothing going on but a blue sky day in the 80s. [We would hear it before we'd see it; but there was only the sound of a chicken]. We leave finally, to find an open health food store-two we pass are closed-and spot a shy evacuated kitty waiting in his cargo carrier to go home. And then he does, and we do too.
12:49 hst update:
live video of coconut island taking a bath-
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/category.asp?C=176904&nav=menu55_1_56:13 pm hst updates: Aside from the tiny reported surges, all in Hawaii is peaceful... more
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Jim Albertini from the Big Island of Hawaii talks about this issues. He believes a lot of people are angry about the TMT and GMOs. There is a movement to reinstate the Hawaiian government removed by the United StatesJim Albertini from the Big Island of Hawaii talks about this issues. He believes a... more
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Please help my extended 'Ohana.
Family members of a Hilo woman missing since Sept. 23 are hopeful she's still alive and that someone has information that will lead them to her.
Sarah Moku said the family will set up a tent Saturday at Four-Mile Beach in Keaukaha. The purpose is to talk story with beachgoers and hand out fliers with a picture of Marlo Moku, who left her Kaumana home to buy cigarettes and failed to return.
"We'll try to go there early," said Sarah Moku, a Maui resident who is Marlo Moku's younger sister. "The kids can swim and we want to put up a big vinyl sign with her picture that says, 'Please help us find our mommy.'"
Marlo Moku, 34, is the mother of three children: Jacob, 11; Kanoe, 9, and Lily, 3. Her boyfriend, Sean Oblero, has been taking care of the children since her disappearance. In addition, Moku has three other siblings, sisters Iwa and Kawehi, and half-brother Joshua. Her parents are Wayne Moku and Darolyn Kua, both of Hilo.
She was last seen at about 7 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Kaumana Drive 7-Eleven store.
The missing woman was not employed and, according to her sister, was on medication for bipolar disorder.
"She needs help because she hasn't had her shot and it's been seven months," Sarah Moku said. She added that her sister was originally treated with pills, which she would sometimes forget to take.
"If she wasn't consistent in taking her pills, she would fall back into her sickness and we would have to take her to the hospital, because it got so bad that they would have to stabilize her," Sarah Moku said. "But recently, in the last two years, they started her on a shot. She had to go to the doctor's every two weeks, I believe, and not have to remember to take the pills. The shot would keep her very consistent."
Marlo Moku's blue 1995 Chevrolet Corsica four-door sedan was found by a fisherman at the bottom of a 120-foot cliff near the old Hakalau Sugar Mill the morning of Oct. 10. The license plates, reported by police as HTN 328, were missing from the car. Police identified the car as Moku's through its vehicle identification number.
The car was lifted to the top of the cliff the following day by helicopter and was towed back to Hilo police headquarters for further investigation.
"We had a reconstructionist go through the path the vehicle traveled," police Lt. Mitch Kanehailua of the Criminal Investigation Section said Thursday. "We have to go through the report now; it's rather lengthy. Other than that, there's no new information."
Asked if he suspected foul play, Kanehailua said: "Not at this time. We really don't know; we're looking at all the possibilities.
"We've had reports of sightings, but we've checked them out and really, nothing."
Kanehailua said that Maui police have tentatively identified a body there that Moku's family had requested Hilo police check, but the body was not Moku's.
Sarah Moku said she doesn't think her sister was suicidal, even when not medicated.
"She'd just blab on about things that went on in the past, things that are bottled up inside and just all come out at once. Her frustrations and that," she said.
She said that her sister had never disappeared for any length of time before.
"She goes to town a lot with the kids, knick-knack shopping here and there, but it was not like she'd never come home," Sarah Moku said. "She'd go to the store to get some cigarettes, get this, get that, but she'd always come back. She liked to go to the beach. She'd go to Honolii because her boyfriend surfs there."
She said that the family is dissatisfied with the police investigation.
"They told us from the beginning it's not a crime to be missing if you're an adult, and we felt that they kind of classified her as a runaway, because they didn't make any effort to find her the first couple of weeks," Sarah Moku said. "Then, when her car was found about two weeks after, that's when they stepped it up a little."Please help my extended 'Ohana.
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Thousands of acres of Big Island ranch land are home to cattle and a looming controversy.
"We need land. All the biomass crops are land intensive," John Ray said.
Ray is general manager of SunFuels Hawaii LLC. The Waimea company wants to plant eucalyptus trees and turn the crop into diesel fuel.
"The livestock industry in the state of Hawaii is in a very fragile state," Alan Gottlieb said.
Gottlieb represents seven Big Island ranchers. They would have to share some of the land they lease from the state with SunFuels if the land board says so.
"We're convinced that there are enormous acres in current grazing leases that we believe could be more productive, can still support grazing but could support energy sustainability," Ray said.
He said SunFuels could produce up to 13 million gallons of biodiesel annually, meeting the Big Island's needs for diesel fuel. Much of ranch land SunFuels wants is in the Hamakua area.Thousands of acres of Big Island ranch land are home to cattle and a looming... more
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Companies continue to create superior plants and animals by modifying its’ DNA, some plants such as the Taro (Kalo) Hawaiian, is part of the Hawaiian Culture as well as other Polynesian cultures including Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and Aotearoa. One theory has it that the Hawaiian People emerged from this plant, which has been here long before America and because the introduction of GMO’s all over the globe. Plants that have such deep roots and cultural significance needs to be protected at all cost, Monsanto already wants to own all vegetation that it pollinates, legally. They cannot own what does not belong to them, just because they introduced chemicals to enhance the plant intentionally or not does give rights of ownership in my eyes. The government needs to really get this regulated so many people can see the negative side of GMO products. Hawai’i does not want GMO and does not need GMO, we have natural soil that is full of nutrients and do not need further destruction to our islands, people, or way of life. Please do not support GMO products in Hawai’i.Companies continue to create superior plants and animals by modifying its’ DNA,... more
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Help us find Marlo, Please repost where ever you can, she was last seen since September 23, 2008, on the Big Island of Hawai'i. If you have seen Marlo please contact the Hilo Police. Her 'Ohana misses her dearly. Please Kokua and Repost.Help us find Marlo, Please repost where ever you can, she was last seen since... more
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The Kilauea Volcano is erupting in Hawaii. Molten hot lava is spurting high into the air while lava flows from the mountain. Staying true to its Hawaiian setting the volcanoes lava "wave" has an estimated height of 40 feet.The Kilauea Volcano is erupting in Hawaii. Molten hot lava is spurting high into the... more
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I lived in Hawaii for six months in '05. I decided to go ahead and dig up my pictures to make a video while I was making my Philippines videos.I lived in Hawaii for six months in '05. I decided to go ahead and dig up my... more
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