Phone rings at 4am: Swanda telling me that there is a tsunami headed my way (I guess I picked a good day to be at the beach).
Phone rings at 4:20am: Front desk telling me that an evacuation is in process for the expected tsunami.
Phone rings at 4:40am: Dan from Florida has managed to butt-dial me from his new Ford Flex.
Phone rings at 6am: They want everyone evacuated by 6:45am for the expected 7:15am tsunami.
Personally I’d been watching the TV and was waiting to see what happen at 6:10am when Hawaii was supposed to get whacked before I was even going to get out of bed and take a shower. When Hawaii got 3-5 foot waves, and the tide at Seaside was out 3+ feet, and the fact that my room was on the 3rd floor at the back …I’m not running for the hills (or the 5-8 floors as they also suggested).
Here is the “fauxnami” as I started calling it:
Looks more like turbulent surf to me. This was taken at the designated arrival time— didn’t seem to bother the guy parked on the roundabout either.
I did get email from one of my friends in Tokyo saying he and the kids were alright —though he faced a 3 hour walk home.
Left a deserted Seaside after missing out on $75 for owner reeducation as they’d cancelled all the sessions because of the fauxnami. Hit a couple of antique stores in Astoria more out of killing time than anything else— having declined to purchase some more gifts for Swanda since they were $5 a piece rather than the $3-3.75 that I got the other four for— and I hadn’t heard back from him if he wanted any more …only to get a text answer back about the time I hit Longview that yes, he would like them, for a Easter basket for his sister.
Next stop Centrailia to see if they had antique stores (TONS downtown) and see if I could find any — found plenty, but not in the range I wanted to pay, and the right age to match the others, and the right material (metal, not cardboard). $6-8 each was just a little too much for me.
Then onto Olympia for the monthly poker game— this time with dinner before with Rich and Curt to talk about next month’s Mexico trip. It was a good night at the table— up about $30, which might have covered the booze bill.
I leave you with this silly picture from the game:
Curt took a group shot, but still haven’t gotten a copy in email, so the above will have to do.
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