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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Power Outage in Oahu

So as many of you might know already last Friday Oahu lost power over the entire island. You also may know that the Obama family was vacationing here at the time so I would just like to show you this article written about the outage. WASHINGTON (Washington) -- Emergency crews were working to restore electrical service to Honolulu and across most of the Hawaiian island of Oahu following a storm packing heavy rain and lightning Friday night, reports said. Some 800,000 residents and thousands of tourists, including President-elect Barack Obama, were affected by the outage. The storm triggered failures in a pair of power generators operated by Hawaiian Electric , a spokesman for the utility told the Associated Press. The utility's reportedly aiming to restore power by morning. Authorities dispatched an emergency generator to serve the compound where Obama's vacationing with his family, according to Gov. Linda Lingle. So they took generators to a resort where the Obama's were staying and the enitre island lost power, how awesome is that. Danika loved it, she got to play with the flashlight and see what happens when you push the button. Lowell and I were not so happy about it. We went to bed and it was freaking hot without a fan at least and no a/c either. We got power back on at 6am on Saturday morning and then we had to wake up and we didn't get much sleep. Well if this makes your day let me know.

2 comments:

Haylee said...

I just love being treated like a 2nd class citizen. I love all the new pictures of Danika. She is growing up too fast.

Anonymous said...

Yeah and today we went to the hospital for a persistent cough! Not fun at all.