[78-L] lots of water

[David Lennick]

Very glad to hear this, Mal! Other ripple effects (not the right word in this 
instance) are f***ed up travel plans, with airports already jammed with 
Canadians about to start Spring Break. And I bet a lot of them were heading for 
Hawaii.

dl

On 3/11/2011 12:11 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> "... and when I woke up this morning I had beachfront property!"
> First off I want to thank all of you for your concerns about the tsunami
> that struck here in the middle of the night because of the 8.9
> earthquake in Japan.<y heart goes out to all those people suffering in
> Japan right now. While my house and the Hawaiian collection are both
> safe (mostly because I live at an altitude well above the flood line)
> Maui caught the brunt of the tsunami with the highest wave surge height
> of about nine feet. Thus does not sound like much but consider this is
> surge height, not just a lone wave coming along at a 9' height. It's
> still early morning so real info is somewhat hard to come by, but the
> politicians and news readers (who are seemingly at a loss when it
> actually comes to reporting the news) have been hard at work gabbling on
> and on about nothing.
> The one news report that got to me about the earthquake is the Yen and
> other currencies losing 5% of their values because the&^$*(&( insurance
> companies are going to actually have to pay out some of that money
> they've been extorting from people for years. Wow. Heartlessness R Us.
> Anyway, so far no one has been reported dead in Hawaii and that's a good
> thing.
> More later.
> Malcolm