I’m in workers comp limbo. In a temporary position. Have applied for a permanent position, but crickets. I can’t get off of WC or even discuss a settlement until I have a permanent position. So I wait for them to offer the permanent position or cut me loose. Don’t want to work somewhere else.
Cause and effect. Interest rates won’t go down until tarrifs are relaxed. The tariff cause constraints on imports would cause inflation if they loosen up capital. Macro economics 101, not hope and dream.
In my 60+ years in Hawaii, I’ve experienced evacuations and dealt with the fallout from tsunami, hurricanes, floods, brush fires and few other odd weather events. I still listen to the officials and trust the science. They’re not always spot on, but I haven’t been swept away either.
Seemed appropriate. Butch Helemano.
People who grew up on, or have lived on Hawaii Island a long time likely have far more respect for what a Tsunami can than most Hawaii people. First hand experience or 1 generation separation with people profoundly affected by a tsunami. It’s not to taken lightly. Better to overreact.
Charging all of our devices. We’ve seen how 1 pole down due to traffic accident knocks out power in large portions of Kona.
Seeing Kauai mayor Derek Kawakami on TV is comforting, and I don’t even live on Kauai. He was a rockstar during the pandemic
I lived in Keaukaha during one evacuation in the 90s. I remember loading 2 TVs and suitcases and going to family’s house up mauka.
Recalling a 1986 tsunami evacuation. I was a manager at TGI Friday on Ward Ave. we were the just out of Evac zone. Honolulu was gridlock. We got crushed. Ran out of everything. The bar was packed until closing.
Love this quote
The three lenses of opportunity cost: (1) Compared with what? (2) And then what? (3) At the expense of what?
Now we wait for the buoys to report mid path reports on how bad it will be. The 2011 tsunami in Japan did massive damage in West Hawaii. The Four Seasons, King Kamehameha beach hotel & the Kona Coast. There was a condo in Kealakekua bay. Most of the damage was 2nd and 3rd wave, not the initial.
The 2 tsunami that devastated Hilo and Laupahoehoe in ‘41 & ‘60 were other close to 8 and came from the Aleutian island straight north of Hawaii. This is more NW, parts of Kauai, O’ahu and Maui are in danger. Hawaii maybe by wrap around.