Hurricane Flossie is heading for the Big Island, expected to hit early this afternoon (Hawaii time) bringing high winds, torrential rains, and flash floods. We're safe from flooding in our area, but high winds could possibly do some damage. I love a good storm, but it's sure hard to just be watching it all from a distance.
So while we're worrying from here about our house and our friends over there, a 5.4 earthquake struck the isalnd! The epicenter (in Kalapana) is just about in our area (Pahoa). We heard the quake shook for 10 seconds in Hilo which is about 25 miles away. That's enough to do damage, but we haven't heard any more news yet.
And we know that the volcano has been sending lava from a whole new area! That's been going on for a couple weeks now, very exciting but not for us to worry about - so far. We keep monitoring this through the Hawaii Volcano Observatory website: http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php
I wonder: will we even have a house to move into?
Sure we wanted a change of pace, but really, this may be going a bit too far!
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