Ping Maren re earthquake

Scary - I saw that on the news - I hope everyone's okay!

well, we got shook out of bed (I had planned on not going to the market because I have too much work to do, so I was still asleep), the cats didn't like it (we didn't either, really), but we're OK, the house is OK (all the post are on their pie blocks for all I can tell), and we never even lost power, at home that is. We lost our internet access for several hours, eventually DH called the

roadrunner office and they had to reset our cable modem. The only damage we tooks was to some scale models of rockets that fell off the top of the piano.

Work is a different matter because the telescope lost power for several hours causing instruments to warm up, computers trying to boot in the wrong order and moved the telescope by several inches. Telescope will be closed tonight because they have to inspect for damages in daylight, but we got most of the computers back up, and the instruments are cooling back down (done by the people who were shaken out of bed after just having gotten in after a night's observing).

Funny thing is: I can write to you from home, but to get into the computers at work I have to drive there because the connection to them goes through Honolulu where the power is still out.

Somebody said on TV that they turned the power off on Oahu to prevent damage, meaning now that they have to un-grid the place to bring the power back up. DH was there at UH many years ago, and he said the Oahu power grid was always somewhat fragile. Signal level on the network channels on TV still fluctuates (the network channels on cable come from Oahu).

I can't speak for the other side of the island, but around here most I have heard of is some broken glass (well, and possibly some telescope damage - I hope not.)

(a bit exhausted, wondering how I can get the work done at work that I was going to do today, wondering how our visitor fom Scotland got through the earthquake, who probably spent the night on Oahu and got caught by delayed flights - he was supposed to get in today, to connect a new controller to an instrument that's now too warm to do anything with

-. I meant to get this work done before he gets here. Feel like head in a tailspin (pun intended), that earthquake was about the last thing I needed, but at least I got some yard work done, not a whole lot, was too hot - no, it hasn't started raining yet, we're supposed to have a flash flood

watch in effect too. Missed the late news, and probably won't be able to get to satellite images because the power on Oahu is still out in a lot of places ...)

BTW: no interisland flights here means no machine made bread on the shelves after a few days. Hilo ran out of that kind of bread (which is what my stomach can digest, as there's basically nothing there) after 9/11. There's a lot of things that we get by air freight from Oahu, including things that come from the mainland, like mail.

We get earthquakes here, this isn't the first magnitude 6 since I've been here. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer, but they happen and you never get advance warning. 4s we don't really notice, like 3" rain in a day won't make the front page.

Maren (all shook up? - no, not really. More worried about warm-ish > Was watching msnbc and the reports on the earthquake started. They are

Glad to hear you all are okay. :)

Glad to hear that you are safe & sound!

Barbara

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There is a very fine line between a hobby and mental illness. (Dave Barry)

safe yeah, but I'd argue about the sound. Not this week, anyway. All hell will break loose here at work again in a minute or two ...

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