Human moments as the waves approach

It was a strange atmosphere in the long lines at gas stations and stores across Hawaii, stern and stressed out in some places, excited and amiable in others, as Hawaii residents practiced their accustomed pre-disaster ritual of buying every roll of toilet paper in the state. The visitor in the 7-Eleven on Ena Road was using his cell phone to shoot video of the long line. Bernadette, standing in line after cockaroaching the last ciccerone, thought, "That's going to be a really boring item on YouTube." Throughout coastal areas like Waikiki, overnight shift personnel continued to work as dayshift people failed to show up due to the tsunami warning. ABC Stores did not open at all, even as Costcos and some supermarkets opened early. A member of the condo association called downstairs to suggest that someone should move the koa furniture. The person most likely to be assigned to do it was doing other assigned work, while he fretted about his home on the Ewa plain.

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[moonlytknight]

It's funny what natural disasters do to people. We always advertise 72 hour emergency kits and everything so it never ceases to amaze me at how many people don't take mother nature serious enough to have SOME supplies in their pantry.