Excellent point about re-stocking groceries taking longer than on the mainland. And if any ports are damaged that could impact cargo ships.


Here's a Hawaii tsunami website that just went live. Includes Twitter posts and streaming video.

A lot peops who live there are contributing. There have never been so many people equipped with the ability to transmit images and video of disasters and provide real-time commentary.

The cable news channels are all drawing upon Twitter and Facebook to augment their coverage of the quake and tsunami.


The Honolulu Advertiser has links to all its tsunami articles here:

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/


My friend on the Big Island (Kohala) was supposed to fly out of the Kona airport today early afternoon. The highway goes through evacuation zones so not sure how that's going to go.

There are worse places to be stranded. His house is at over one thousand foot elevation.