I awoke to our tsunami warning...

I woke up this morning to a siren alerting us of our tsunami warning.

My heart goes out to Chile, but I cant help being a bit nervous for my own current predicament.
Luckily, our house IS on a hill; however, we are only a minute away from the shore line.

Hawaii is on high alert, I think most people are expecting the worst. I was called and told I don't have to go into work; unless, we don't get hit and our electricity is fine. I'm actually thinking, if we DO get hit then our electricity will go off for sure.  When we had our earthquake recently we lost power for 24 hours +.

I have family and friends everywhere on Oahu, as well as, on Hilo and Maui.  I just hope everyone stays safe and heeds the warnings. 

Its really mind boggling to be going through this...I feel like its all just going to pass and the tsunami isnt really real, but again, they used the alarms and EVERYTHING is closed right now.  Its a serious matter.
I look at the map and think about how far we are, but nature is an amazing thing...

This might be my last post for a couple days, hopefully, we don't lose electricity and I can update this in the next couple of hours. (We are an hour away from being *hit*) There are supposed to be a series of waves and the first isn't the deadliest...so cross your fingers.  If it hits my side of the island it will be really devastating. Where I am situated, I wouldn't be able to leave my house for a long time..days ...weeks...who knows.  We have a canal that connects us to the main land and if that overflows, we*re all stuck on this side. :)
I know my information is very sporadic and not thought out well, but the excitement here is unbearable. Every person is glued to their news channel. Some people are even at the beaches right now..
I had to go to my parents house to drop off their camera (My father was contacted my Colorado news and is now their updater on what is happening) so I drove past the beach and it appeared to me like our water line is receding; however, it is also close to low tide, so I'm not sure if that's just coincidence.

We will just have to wait and see....