Tsunami Warning for Hawaii

[Neraj]

Please, everyone in Hawaii/Aulani please be careful tonight. The first wave is scheduled to hit at 10:30pm local time, about 1.5 hours from this post. Don't panic, you can stay at the resort, even though Aulani is right on the bay you will be fine in your room. If you need to evacuate it will be a vertical evacuation, you won't have to leave the resort.

Stay safe!

 

[dvc_john]

It looks like it didn't really add up to much, thankfully. But I would be interested to hear from anyone staying at Aulani about their experience with the Tsunami warning.

 

[taaren]

Yep fun with a 3 foot tsunami. Because most of the resort hotels are on the beach, tourists and those with beachfront properties are usually the first ones evacuated. Sometimes its good to be one of the poor folk further up the hill.

 

[jekjones1558]

We were displaced from our rented Big Island condo when the tsunami flooded it a couple of years ago. We slept in our car overnight after packing up all of our stuff and had to spend most of the next day trying to get into a new place. Glad to hear that this tsunami turned out to be not so much of a problem.

 

[msbatchelor5]

So. It was an adventure last night. Only mentally though.

At about 10:25 a message came over the all com saying Hawaii was under a Tsunami Warning. That they were (& being woken by a buzzing and still trying to contemplate the word Tsunami I don't remember exact wording) flood safe from the 3rd floor up & that guests below there were evacuated vertically aka moved to a new room above the 3rd floor. They asked us to please stay In our rooms till the all clear.


It freaked me out. Especially since its our 5 year wedding anniversary and we had super plans for today plus we've been feeling lucky we left Orlando just in time to miss Sandy. As well as I definitely couldn't wrap my head around the fact I was under a TSUNAMI warning.

I snuggled up to my little one and made Hubby turn on the tv. The local station had awesome coverage. They even had a correspondent who was trying to go to North Shore, that came to Ko Olina to monitor any surges. I don't think we had any only wherever the lighthouse is did really I think.

They said the first tsunami wave was expected at 10:30 and after the readings they said that it wasn't as bad as projected so after about an hour I felt calm enough to go back to sleep.

I believe it was about 1 am that the all com came back over saying that the warning was dropped and to still stay inside the hotel. If we wanted drinks or food to visit the front desk (instead of venture out to the 24 hr refill station by pool I guess)


The weather has been amazing today and I don't think the waves any larger then usually.

 

[Skatetigger]

We were there as well during that time. We had actually gotten home from Waikiki and a drive around the Oahu East Coast that same day. Got back to room turned on TV to check out Hurricane stuff (we're from MA) and saw the warning on TV but had heard nothing from resort yet so I called front desk. They were very helpful. We had heard the sirens which I have to admit was a bit spooky.

We kept looking out over the bay to see the waves and didn't see much change which we were thankful for.

DH & I were beginning to think someone was trying to tell us something. Last year we were on vacation when the northeast got hit with the Halloween snow storm. Then this year Hurricane Sandy and then the tsnuami. We kept thinking what's next.