According to the National Weather Service we’re supposed to get high winds toda with gusts up to over 60mph.
It already looks like we’ve got gusts over 40mph via this link to the Mauna Lani weather station.
And if you look at the Puako live video feed on this link it looks like it’s blowing and getting choppy out there. Not a good day to be on the ocean and time to tie down loose things.
For friends and family in Hawaii be prepared as Hurricane Flossie is on the way and she’s a big one, a category 4 hurricane with 135mph winds. Right now it’s scheduled to track south of the Big Island but from the path it will create some huge ocean surge for the islands, especially the Big Island.
Visit the NOAA tracking site to stay posted on this nasty storm. Travis, you may want to get that surfboard ready.
Okay, my Verizon Wireless contract is up in 10 days. The question is, do I dump VZW and jump onto the iPhone bandwagon or should I get the Palm Treo 755p when that comes out (could be the next few weeks or next few months when it’s released). The Treo has many more features and faster cellphone data speed but the iPhone has Apple’s beautiful interface. Steve Jobs is right, most of us hate our cellphones and most of us have one. There is no perfect cellphone but how close can the iPhone come? I think I’ll wait until next month, of course that’s when I’ll be visiting the Apple Store in New York and fully within the Reality Distortion Field. Is resistance futile?
Crazy story about a wheelchair stuck in the grill of a semi going 50mph!
The sign at Hawaiian Rent-All is always good for a laugh while driving by.
Sorry for the lack of updates, been super busy with work with no time to deal with the blog so you’ll probably be seeing some backposted updates soon.
An 8.2 magnitude earthquake off Japan tonight. If a wave is generated it’s sked to hit Hawaii at 12:23 am Saturday (tonight), earlier for islands west of the Big Island. Stay tuned to radio, TV, web, etc.
Click here for info from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
The RSS feed from Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
If you have Google Earth and want the .kmz file to show you the epicenter it’s here: JapanQuake.kmz.zip You probably want to Option-Click of you’re on a Mac or right click save if you’re on Windows.
The tsunami watch was cancelled as of 9:33pm, though we could get tidal surges like we saw in November.
Sorry for the lack of updates. Busy with work, holidays, etc. A trickle of photos should start arriving on the site.
Mela Kalikimaka
One thing I *DID* do the past few days was switch an mp3 file on my site. Seems I had done a blog post with the song Feliz Navidad linked on it from a few years ago, it wasn’t the whole song but everyone was linking to the mp3 file on my site and it’s been eating up my bandwidth. So on the 11th I removed the file from the site, you can see the drop in bandwidth on my stats chart below. Then on the 16th I posted a Green Day ringtone with the name FelizNavidad.mp3 in my directory.
Looks like most people figured it out and unlinked the file a couple of days ago. Must have been quite the shock with all those pages playing Green Day instead of Jose Feliciano.
But the real culprit is the website Project Playlist that listed me as #8 as a source for the song.
btw, you can find The Waiting by Tom Petty there too.
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