We went without power from 7am until 3:30am!! It was LONG hot day with no ac going!!!! I'm glad the rest of you are alright! Dana---I am sooooo excited you are that close to having surgery done--I know you've been waiting a while now---congrats!!

Wish I could come, but my renters are flying out that night so we're having a little get together before they leave then I'm taking them to the airport.

Hope all is well with you girl! I miss water aerobics! And did you get my email about Scott Hi?

WOW, it's been forever since I've been on here....some of you know I've been in the hospital a couple times (non-WLS realted!). But, I am back now! I have lost over 100 pounds now! This morning I wweighed in at 192......that's 109 pounds down!! I get so excited everytime I see that scale move! I am having a hard time with knowing it's OK for me to shop in the regular womens dept....I still feel like people are staring at me and thinking I don't belong there!

According to the news the earthquake was a result of a buildup from the bunch of minor volcanic earthquakes they've had there. I've heard from my uncle that they had sink holes in the road and around his neighborhood he said there was a 10 foot by 15 foot sinkhole with no bottom in sight and smoke coming out of it. But Big Island is completely made up of lava tubes underground so I could imagine that this would be the norm for a earthquake and aftershocks of that magnitude. Big Island was very close to the epicenter...if I'm not mistaken 8 miles away or something. They got the brunt of it...we on Oahu just got some tremors. Nothing too major. Oahu had no power for hours and hours (we waited over 14 hours) for power to be restored to my job. That was the most frustrating thing about the earthquake...they turned off the power turbines and it took many many hours to get it back on. Tomorrow will be life as usual, I think everyone enjoyed the day off here. Too bad I still had to go in to work and implement the "emergency plan for disasters step III."