Short and sweet as I'm rushing. Thank you Jewells, Jose, Abasaki, and Claudia, and everyone else posting on the other post as I can't post this twice!

Yes, we had 2 major earthquakes here in the Aloha State. 1st one hit us at about 7:07am. 6.6 on the Richter scale. Then from there they were 4.4 and then in the 3's. The last one hit at about 10:30am.

We were already in a Flash Flood Warning on Oahu (my island) and expecting to receive heavy showers and thank goodness it was a Sunday Morning, so most people should have had emergency supplies. laffs. I didn't have ice? oh shoot! At about 7:25am, we lost power. Oh darn. Didn't see that one coming!

It took about 40 minutes for our local wonderful radio broadcasters to get off the golf course (yes he was on the course) and one from home to get to the station and power up generators to get the station running and off "Automatic" ...and the reports started coming in that there was no tsunami generated!!! Yipee! Thank goodness we didn't need that.

We had no telephone service, flash flood warnings or watchs, depending on where you lived, earthquake damage, and no electricity or phone service which included our cellular's. Mine? I hadn't charged it so I couldn't get through anyways...as it's service was sketchy. I live surrounded by mountains mostly, so my service is bad where I live anyways.

The electric company start restoring service around 11:30am but restoring more than 1.3 million people on our island is tricky....so my area didn't come on until about 1am.

YES...my procedure has not been cancelled. So during all this, I managed to get out and get 7lbs. of ice to keep it cold...and not have to go in and out of the refridgerator. I'm all CLEAN! LAFFS. I head out of here in about 1.5 hours and to the hospital via my son's still in his rent-a-car. Thank goodness. His new wheels hopefully will still be available today...picking it up at Matson. Oh, for those of you who didn't know he was hit broadside 2 blocks from our house a month ago and his car was totalled but not his body! He walked away.

Now, back to the earthquake hit the Big Island of Hawaii. Not my island. My island is reporting very little damage. Some damage to some older homes. My home is fine. The Big Island of Hawaii, has some major damage.

We are still in a flash flood watch although. It's raining like crazy off and on. Typical Tropical storms.

The tourists is who I feel sorry for as the Airport is mess.

Our business is taking a hit as of course, our mushrooms come in from San Francisco and obviously we don't know the status as of this second whether or not we are actually getting mushrooms today...and if so when. If we don't get our shipment...our customers are going to be pissy.

So, I typed this fast...didn't spell check or anything.

I should be home around 1pm or so my time...that's 4pm West Coast time and 7pm East Coast time. I'll do my best to get on here and check in.

Claudia, thanks for trying to check in with me. I'm going to get one of those old fashion plug in phones. The phone co. said around 3pm that they were back on and that if I had one of those old phones it would work.

Hugs to all...and Aloha...from our crazy state. When we do it...we do it in style and w/ Aloha!

Happy Birthday Meagan! Oh to be 19 again.

Dana