...Tsunami to the north, hurricane and a tropical storm to the south, and we doged both. Talk about lucky.

To add to the fun of it all, my parents were about half and hour or so away from landing after visiting my sister in Colorado when the tsunami warning came out, and my brother was picking them up from the airport. Meaning: gridlock traffic on all the major roads as people began to evac to higher ground. They managed to get home after nearly 2 hours, and my brother ended up staying over (and almost overnight) since the road leading to his house on the other side of the island was closed to incomming traffic. (The road was reopened around 10:30pm-ish, and he went home. His family is safe too btw.)

The irony of it all is that it reminded me of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami which happened a day before (Hawaii time) my brother's wedding (see: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2179282/ ). The irony wasn't lost on him too.

The short of it is, everyone's okay, and my home islands seems to have escaped this one unschathed.

(This is the "Welcome Home" sign that greeted them when they walked in: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/61786590/ )