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Sitting at my PC in our refuge here in HPP this morning, when I hear a loud intermittent rumbling, popping sound.
Immediately all my senses tune into trying to ID it along with the general cold sensation that goes with sensing a threat.
My hearing isn't all that acute any more, so I go outside to see if I can hear it better.
Turns out a neighbor is having a bit of trouble getting a cold motorcycle engine to fire up.
I'll be very glad when this is finally over.
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
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Considering what you've been through, I would be more surprised if you didn't have some form of PTSD.
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After Izelle and the 2014 Eruption, my Dr. at Kaiser told me that everyone she had seen from Puna had PTS. (forget the disorder part). This event has lasted a lot longer, and you were in the hot seat for weeks.
I’m pretty sure you are not alone 1V1.
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I went to Alaska late last month and every evening I'd get out of car, smell smoke and think, damn the jungles
On fire (no neighbor had wood stove). Yesterday I picked up
Son from airport and said, "isnt this air bad in Kona?" He replied, "not as bad as Fairbanks..." I forgot after so many years....
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A week or two ago I woke from a sound sleep when my cat scratched himself and shook the bed a little in the night. I bolted for the door thinking it was another quake. You're not alone, friend.
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I still become alarmed when I hear the house creak. The 5.3 (?) one hit and shook us up, followed by the 6.9 shortly after. That was the first time I experienced a quake that size. I could feel the intensity building as the seconds passed and thought it was going to keep building when it suddenly stopped. I don't recall how long the quake lasted, probably just seconds but it felt like minutes.
Mid stream of our evacuee house guest making a smoothie the 6.9 one hit. Without missing a beat he made reservations for the next flight to Oahu. After he finished packing moments later, he asked to be taken to the airport NOW. A few days later he and his wife returned. Their house was still standing and we were able to get some of their things out before the lava consumed their house.
