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Old Mar 12, 2011, 6:41 am
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Sunny_Island
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
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We are in Kauai (Lihue) in an oceanfront room. Last night the tsunami warning sirens woke us and we spent the rest of the night on our lanai watching water as best we could in the dark. People from lower floor were evacuated. People from many areas on the island were evacuated, in fact. We were grateful to be allowed to stay in our room. I'm pretty sure we saw the 1st and 2nd waves come ashore. It was really interesting. No wave came far enough in to cause any trouble for this area. One it was daybreak and we could see better it became obvious that the surf had been stirring up debris from somewhere as the water looked really dirty. It was really a non event though in the global view of things and light of the devastation in Japan. Kauai seems to be fine. I've heard the real damage was along Alii Dr in Kona on the Big Island.
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