Ping Maren re earthquake

Was watching msnbc and the reports on the earthquake started. They are
reporting a fairly large quake(s?) about 3 hrs ago, with no reports of
fatalities but a lot of structural damage.

Hope you and yours are all okay... pls give us a shout!!!





--
Polly
don't spook my groove...

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

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"Polly S." wrote in message
...

Was watching msnbc and the reports on the earthquake started. They are
reporting a fairly large quake(s?) about 3 hrs ago, with no reports of
fatalities but a lot of structural damage.

Hope you and yours are all okay... pls give us a shout!!!





--
Polly
don't spook my groove...

email - webmaster at beadfulheart dot com

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
instruments)

Polly S. wrote:
Was watching msnbc and the reports on the earthquake started. They are
reporting a fairly large quake(s?) about 3 hrs ago, with no reports of
fatalities but a lot of structural damage.

Hope you and yours are all okay... pls give us a shout!!!

--
Polly
don't spook my groove...

email - webmaster at beadfulheart dot com

Glad to hear you all are okay.


--
Kandice Seeber
www.lampwork.net
Vote for my site!
http://tinyurl.com/bbcon
wrote in message
ps.com...
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
instruments)

Polly S. wrote:
Was watching msnbc and the reports on the earthquake started. They are
reporting a fairly large quake(s?) about 3 hrs ago, with no reports of
fatalities but a lot of structural damage.

Hope you and yours are all okay... pls give us a shout!!!

--
Polly
don't spook my groove...

email - webmaster at beadfulheart dot com

Glad to hear that you are safe & sound!

Barbara

Bead & Polymer Clay Votary

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

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Barbara Forbes-Lyons wrote:
Glad to hear that you are safe & sound!

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 ...

Thanks,
Maren
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Barbara

Bead & Polymer Clay Votary

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

http://www.penguintrax.com and http://www.backseatgrammarian.com
NEW! http://www.polymerclayworkshops.com