Post #261031 by WenikiTiki on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 8:15 AM

Here is what happened in Kaneohe: We rocked and rolled pretty good, but no damage. Every picture in the house is crooked and several things fell from shelves and tipped over in the china cabinets. We had no power until around midnight. We put everything into the one refrigerator and ran the generator for a few hours at a time a couple times yesterday. And made a game out of eating what was melting the fastest. Ice cream for dinner!

We haven't herd from Gecko, but Eva got power back around dinner time. We were told to please stay off both the cell and land lines yesterday, so we did.

My 16 year old Forrest was scared silly. I was awake when it struck, watching my big black and white cat, Figaro, who was up on the dresser acting weird. She was frozen between sitting and standing, with her ears cocked back. I guess she heard it before we did! I ran downstairs when the one minute rumble built up to the severe shakes. Poor Forrest came running out of his room and he was shaking like a leaf. It sorta tossed him out of bed! And our pool had huge waves in it! We felt the second earthquake, but not the third one. The radio station in Honolulu counted over 40 aftershocks, I guess you can feel it better in a high rise!

The phone lines were working, just most of us have phones that require power to work. I have two boys with bad asthma, so I always have a old princess style phone connected to use in emergencies. The cell towers weren't all working, I was in roam all day yesterday.

Sorry, I proved I'm a mom first, tiki lover second, because the small collection I have was the 3rd thing I checked on! I ran into my second son in the kitchen as he was running to our bedroom. Then I ran out to our guest house behind our house to see if our 21 year old son and his fiancee were okay. They were.

We were waiting for part of that mountain we live snugged up to to rain down on us! Or the huge water tank directly behind our house to crack....

All is well! Aloha!!!