As Tsunami Threat Looms, Maui Residents Plead for Access to Oprah’s Private Road

Panic in Da Islands after a tsunami warning was issued for Hawaii following a magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

The quake, one of the strongest recorded, generated a confirmed tsunami, verified by ocean buoys, with waves expected to reach Hawaii around 7:17 p.m. HST, starting in Hanalei, Andy Irons’ ol stomping ground in Kauai.

Tsunamis are anything but an abstract concept in Hawaii. Since 1946’s Aleutian Islands’ tsunami that killed over 150 people in Hilo on the Big Island and described by survivors as “a great big black wall” over 220 people have died due to tsunamis.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, which was set up after 1946, issues these periodic warnings, advising a swift move to higher ground and to stay away, naturally, from beaches, marinas and harbours.
Residents on Hawaii, howevs, have run into a little road block. According to posts on X, Oprah Winfrey, the great talk show host, the gal who played the resilient, defiant, unyielding, Sofia in 1985’s The Colour Purple, her famous quote “Hell no!” quickly adopted by African Americans as a catchphrase, has not opened her private road, which would allow residents to get the hell to higher ground real quick.

“I’m stuck with my children in the truck with sirens going off,” Maui resident Shelby Hosana tells me “If Oprah’s road was open, I could have a way to get out. Instead we will just hope and pray the first wave time estimates are correct and we still have time to get to higher ground.”

Thoughts?

I also liked Whoopi Goldberg’s Celia in The Colour Purple, her journey from timid, voiceless teen, sexually abused by her step-daddy, forced to marry the abusive Albert, hit with endless misogyny, racism and into empowered independent woman is one of the great cinematic journeys.

Shug Avery, she cool too. One of the prettiest ladies you’ll ever see.

The post As Tsunami Threat Looms, Maui Residents Plead for Access to Oprah’s Private Road appeared first on BeachGrit.



Source link

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR