Saturday, June 2, 2012

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Yesterday Solomon, Abraham, and I went to Waimea to visit Melody. We stopped in Laupahoehoe to explore. Most of the town is up on the cliff now, but "back in the day" there was a community of 1000+ people down on the point. In 1946 it was struck by a series of tsunamis. School children gathered fish dropped on the shore by the first two huge, but not deadly, waves when a third wave hit. Twenty-seven children and teachers were swept out to sea. Three survivors treaded water for ten hours until a rescue boat could be brought down from the cliff. All the boats on the beach had been destroyed.
We were standing in front of this monument reading the names when a tsunami warning sounded! Turns out they test the warning system the first Friday of every month. It was such a weird coincidence that we were ready to leave right away.
Here are some signs I've seen only in Hawaii. This is at McKenzie State Park.

1 comment:

  1. Finally found your blog! I had to e-mail Kelsey on Facebook to get the address which I lost! So fun to finally catch up with you! Check out my blog at michandler.blogspot.com to keep up with us. Obviously I have a lot of your posts to get through!!
    Dennis & I visited Waimea on our first visit to Hawaii back before we had kids. Very tragic story! That side of the island is so beautiful.

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