1:53pm ALL CLEAR. Mahalo and Aloha for following the Open Blog today on Hawaii's tsunami. I wonder what Acts of God await us in Colorado?

12:56pm The boats are trying sneak back to their harbors but they've closed the harbors off to them until the all-clear is sounded. We're thinking some of the boats haven't been out to sea in 20 years and might be taking on water and really need to come back in. Oooopsy! Looks like nothing big is going to hit. Good thing as I was going to live on Hamburger buns and darkness. Moving Sale continues: tomorrow.

12:35pm 3rd wave hit Oahu, they are not getting bigger than 3 ft. But they have not signalled a cancellation of the warning yet.

12:06 second wave has just hit and receding from Hilo, HI. Oceanographer can't predict what will hit Oahu and says the next 2 hours is the final window. Ventura, CA is reporting damage from their tsunami. Jeez, who saw that coming? The "Greatest Generation" is taking a break from their garage-saleing, probably eating breakfast at local diner, discussing REAL disasters. Though I shouldn't be cocky, we could still get hit on Oahu. I think I just saw Karl Rove drive by and slow down to look at our Moving Sale sign.

11:36 Flotilla of boats can be seen one mile offshore, an eerie site as hundreds float waiting for a wave or waves.

 11:18 a.m. Water is now receding back in Hilo, Hawaii.

11:04 5th set of Sirens going off...we are waiting for the first waves to hit Hilo, HI. [Along with camping lantern, date stamp on camera broken as well.]

Ships are now a mile out at sea for saftey.

Pearl Harbor: evacuated of all ships this morning.

 10:31 a.m. 4th set of sirens going off.

10:25 a.m. Tsunami due in one hour. How it hits Hilo will determine how hard it will hit Oahu. More people gathering at local highschools. My mall remains open down the street. My teenager and his friends are heading to that Mall.

Greatest Generation: 53, Me: 0  We just sold the golfclubs.

Why hasn't the local news figured out to hunt down Karl Rove and interview him? 

9:16 a.m. Two of the three CostCo's have closed due to -get this - too many people showing up to shop. Our inventory includes: 1 camping lantern that doesn't work, 1 hibachi, 1 battery operated radio with little light, yay!, food from our WWIII cabinet that we keep stocked. One teenager still asleep but will be used as servant if necessary. People are gathering at local highschools in bunches of 500.

The "Greatest Generation" continues to shop at our sale and barter. Greatest Generation: 50, Me: 0.

We are safe at 1,000 ft. above sea level. People are still not listening to advice from the News. Note to self: How much are helicopters, anyways?

9:00 a.m. 3rd set of Sirens going off. No water, mail or electricity as the day goes on, Gov. Lingle is telling us. Easy for her to say, she has a helicopter. Everyone is still driving and phoning. The one thing we are all doing is not really listening to what they are telling us to do.  All boats are being moved either onto shore or out a mile so they don't wreck.

The Greatest Generation continues to shop at our Moving sale. Nobody under 65 has shown up. Huh.

8:56 a.m. No Mail Delivery today! Am wondering where Karl Rove has been evacuated to? [He just got a quickie divorce in December...who is he here with?]

8:36 a.m.: Gov. Lingle says they will be shutting off our water. [Send water]. A bunch of elderly arrive at our Moving Sale. God Bless the Greatest Generation. The experts are saying the Tsunami waves will come in 20 minute intervals?!? How do they know this? How they hit Hilo, HI will determine how they will hit Oahu. Gov. Lingle has a helicopter at ready. Lucky her.

8:08: HECO asks: Turn off all unnecessary appliances especially electronic anythings. With a sinking feeling I see that our electricity will be turned off at some point today. We sold our grill and our camping lantern broke this morning. Send candles.

7:53 a.m. Gov. Lindle Lingle just phoned in. [I love her, hate her haircut, she makes Berta, Charlies housekeeper on Three and a Half Men look fashionable. Please, someone send an expensive hairdresser for our Governor!] She told everyone to stay off the roads [They're all on the roads]; then stay off their phones [we're all on our phones] and that all the counties in Hawaii seem very prepared [which in Hawaii means: be afraid, be very afraid. Just kidding. No, not really.]  Remember to rate this so we can get high ratings to get the cover exposure.

An elderly man just came to our Moving Sale and bought some stuff. He's not afraid of no tsunami. Apparently Tom Brokaw was right...they ARE the greatest generation.

7:33 a.m. Everyone is waiting for Governor Linda Lingle to speak. If you see her around, tell her Hawaii is waiting for her call. Ala Moana Shopping center, the largest open air Mall in the U.S. just closed, to the audible heartbreak of every teenager on the island.

"Waves will be dangerous and significant." That's all the "experts" can tell us. Anybody able to pull their Nostradamus out? Seems like he can give us better info. than our 21st century experts can.

Our Mayor, Mufi Hannuman is on the mainland. Hmmm, what did he know and when did he know it? He went to Harvard, you know.

Update 7:00 a.m. The second round of Sirens are going off. They will sound every hour on the hour. If you didn't know before, you now know now. The waves are on their way. Nobody at all can predict if the waves will be tiny, small or huge.

Update 6:45 a.m.: My husband just returned from the grocery store. Huge lines. Already out of water and ice. Everybody on the cellphone calling their aunties and uncles. He came back with milk, breakfast food, hamburger buns ???. Gridlock will happen today. Parking lots are full at grocery stores. We might lose electricity when the tsunami hits. We already sold our grill so we will rely on Hibachi's. Kapiolani Hospital has just cancelled all surgeries today. Gas stations are mobbed. "Where is everyone planning to drive to?" asks my husband.

I call my friend who lives in Kaawa on the coastline, northshore who will be evacuated to let her know she can come to our house.

Starting: The sirens just went off. At 11:00 a.m. a Tsunami, several waves in fact, are due to hit our shoreline. Evacuations are just about to start from all coastal areas. Which means all the Waikiki tourists, among others. They are taking this seriously and hope all evacuations will go smoothly. We will probably have gridlock and some panic because everyone is just being woken up now by the sirens.

We are under high alert here.

We were due to have a Moving Sale at 8:00 a.m. I don't think anybody will be coming by.

Karl Rove is here, for one, from the mainland. He was a keynote speaker last night at a local G.O.P. fundraiser.

All Oahua beached are CLOSED.

"EWA BEACH, Hawaii -- A tsunami warning was in effect for Hawaii Saturday following a massive earthquake that struck central Chile.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center also issued a tsunami advisory for the coast of California and an Alaskan coastal area from Kodiak to Attu islands.

The first waves were expected to arrive in Hawaii at 11:19 a.m. Saturday (4:19 p.m. EST).

The center said a tsunami has been generated that could cause damage along coastlines of all islands in the Hawaii. It said a tsunami in California and Alaska was possible.

The Ewa Beach, Hawaii-based center called for "urgent action to protect lives and property" in Hawaii, which is among 53 nations and territories subject to tsunami warnings.

"The main thing is we want everyone to take this event seriously," said Charles McCreery, director of the center.

McCreery said he didn't know how big the waves will be, but he expected them to be the largest to hit Hawaii since 1964.

If coastal areas are evacuated, visitors in Waikiki would be moved to higher floors in their hotels, rather than moved out of the tourist district, which could cause gridlock.

"We've got a lot of things going for us," McCreery said. "We have a reasonable lead time. The evacuation should all take place during daylight hours, and wave impact should be during daylight hours.

"We should be able to alert everyone in harm's way to move out of the evacuation zones."