People waited in long lines, stocking up on gas, bottled water, canned food and generators, and officials told residents to stock up on water and fill their cars with gas. Residents in coastal areas of Hawaii were sent to refuge areas at community centers and schools, while tourists in Waikiki were moved to higher floors of their high-rise hotels.
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" drove the lawn furniture and lanai furniture into the plate-glass windows in a lot of cases." "The water clearly came into the buildings, whipped out the sliding glass doors and lanais," he said. Roadways and beaches were empty as the tsunami struck the state.Ĭhris Garsky, who lives in Kailua Kona on the Big Island, told NPR the damage to the ground floors of buildings within 30 feet of the shore was extensive. Water rushed ashore in Honolulu, swamping the beach in Waikiki and surging over the break wall in the world-famous resort but stopping short of the area's high-rise hotels. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Kauai was the first island hit early Friday by the tsunami. "It looks like 'so far, so good,' and we'll move on." "Scientists and some local emergency people say the worst may be over at this point," Bill Dorman, news director of Hawaii Public Radio, told NPR. "All of us had that feeling that Hawaii was just the most blessed place on the face of the Earth today," he said. Shoppers buy water and supplies in Honolulu on Thursday, in advance of a tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake in Japan. "Several docks are breaking lose and hitting boats."įountain said about a third of the 400 or so slips at the marina were set aside for people who live aboard their boats, many of whom watched in anguish as the water surged in. "Boat parts and dock parts are floating down the harbor," he said. "There are four or five boats piled on one another ropes are snapping. "A cement block just ran into a boat, a red boat, it's falling over," he told NPR.
Nick Fountain, a freelance reporter in Santa Cruz, watched as the tsunami surged into the upper harbor, tearing apart docks and sinking boats. Steven said the area had been hit "nonstop" by tsunamis for the past five hours. "Part of the problem is that when this thing started for us at about 8 this morning, we were in a low tide, which really helps us out," he said. It buckled like a graham cracker.īill Steven, a commander with the Del Norte County Sheriff's Office, told NPR the area was expecting more surges.
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