After Sunday’s Earthquake

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[Yvonne DiVita]

Rosa, I have thought of you many, many times during this past week - worrying and wondering, checking your blog and the net. I am so happy all is well - as well as it can be after such an experience. As usual, you put it in perfect perspective. Your outgoing approach and positive mental attitude makes everything better.

There is a book in this - another book on Aloha and management and how to survive in a rocky world. No one can write it like you!

[Rosa]

Aloha Yvonne, and mahalo nui for your thoughtful words. This has been an out of sorts type of week for me, and it has translated into more writing than I normally find the time to do, however more of the journaling variety versus the publishing kind. However, as most writers will relate to, it is that journaling kind that can serve to keep you the person you want to be, and like to be. And need to be.

The earthquake happened on the third anniversary of the day on which my son got into his first (and I hope last) car accident, totaling his sister’s VW Passat by rolling it four times across an empty field. He was driving five other kids home from school; another driver on crack had decided that playing head-on chicken with him would be entertaining, and ran him off the road where an unfortunate gravel patch caused the flipping. The car was a goner, but all of them walked away from the accident without a scratch. The earthquake was sorta like that; mere scratches for us, but several need new cars here. A whole lot of people counting their blessings, as I did that October 15, 2003 evening I stood next to my son staring at his now useless, crumbled car off Waikoloa’s upper road. Magnificent car; in its last hurrah it had protected six young and promising lives.

The first accident I was ever in? Decades earlier, the same age as my son, not driving, but sitting shotgun in a VW bug. Somehow, I was thrown out the rear window, another example of the much-advertised safety feature at the time, of pop-out windows that will not shatter. Bought my own VW bug a little while after that. Never thought about the connection to my daughter’s Passat – a car she HAD to have, until the earthquake.

[Desiree]

I need the results on the 6.6 earthquake in honolulu hawaii for my project so could u plz send that to me.

[Rosa]

An update: Another 5.0 hit yesterday, Thanksgiving morning. A bummer for those who lost power with their turkey in the oven (ours was done by then), but thankfully, not much damage other than a few minor rockslides here and there.

Desiree, another good source for earthquake stuff would be the news stations of Honolulu and their websites - there was lots of coverage. Google for KITV4, KGMB9 and KHON on the Fox network.