Approaching Hawaii

The first wave of the tsunami is due to reach Hawaii in about a half hour. CNN reports that the waves at Midway Island were five feet (the first wave), so Hawaii is expecting 3 to 6 foot waves.

Interesting that the only report actually from Hawaii I've seen was from a CNN reporter vacationing there. There were also no reporters in Japan. There are communications problems, overloaded circuits, and this may also be a result of the severe cutbacks news operations have made in staff, particularly in foreign countries like Japan and...Hawaii.

News from Japan is of oil refinery fire, mounting casualties (no firm numbers) and I saw one report fly by about a ship lost at sea, but the weight of the Goggle news now is predictably the financial impact--stocks, oil prices, insurance...These guys never think of anything else, do they?

I can't help thinking that Margaret is supposed to fly to Hawaii in three days, to be joined there by her daughter, son-in-law and new grandson. She's asleep now (and one of the main reasons I've been monitoring all this is to know whether I should wake her up, if there seems any danger.) But by the time she does wake up, the place she was going--a small island, a town close to the beach--may be under heaps of debris or washed away.