Posted on 09/29/2009 11:52:37 AM PDT by Right_Handed_Writer
I’ll be home by then.Everybody stay safe.
Very big shaker, so there are sure to be aftershocks.
Up in Japan, they say Nai No Kami is the underworld god of earthquakes. He must be very mad.
Um, no, the samoan language pronounces it that way. American Samoa was never occupied by the Germans. Even when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
I am glad to hear your wife and family are okay.
The GERMANS bombed Pearl Harbor?
D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
No tsunami will hit Maui. The worst expected now is an extra high tide or surge at high tide and even that is speculation. Thank you Lord. It’s on the news here now: downgrade of tsunami
I’m sure all are still on alert, however.
I cannot count how many times we’ve had a tsunami warning in SoCal and it didn’t happen.
You just don’t know though.
Never said it was. Influenced is not the same as occupied.
The Tripartite Convention of 1899 resulted in the act that formally partitioned the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory and was the culmination of years of civil war among Samoan factions and of rivalry between the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom at the brink of war. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the Washington Conference of 1887, the Treaty of Berlin of 1889 and the Anglo-German Agreement on Samoa of 1899.
Just saying.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, pacific Islands from Asia to Hawaii were not countries in the modern political sense, and often an island would offer allegiance to whomever the last powerful warship stopped to visit.
that the Germans and the Dutch (among others) had a presence and influence there is beyond debate, and since the Samoans did not have a written language prior to European "discovery", the influence of the European alphabets in the written form of the name were unavoidable.
Of course the Samoans have always pronounced the name of the village as if it had an "n" in it. How that evolved is another story.
dude, a 6 inch wave hit Kauai.
Thank you very much. I was wondering how to check on them.
Is that from the web site or from the Hawaii Dept. of Birth Certificates?
That water DOES look rough..and the trees are blowing like crazy.
Keep us posted! All of you are in my prayers. The water looks terribly rough on the live cam... I couldn’t believe I saw people on the beach.... Not sure where the cam is actually located.. hmmm it says “first resort built in Poipu “
um ok i’m a day late.... :-p
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