Hurricane Update Hawaii

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At 3 pm Hawaiian Standard Time 

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a sunny day has become mostly

cloudy with drizzle.

The Big News is:

I should be safe, but 

possibly inconvenienced.

The National Weather Service tweeted the following information Wednesday afternoon:

• Anticipated Iselle conditions for Hawaii County. Winds 60-70 mph, gusts to 85 mph. Rain 5-8+ inches, locally higher windward.
• Anticipated Iselle conditions for Maui County. Winds 45-55 mph, gusts to 65 mph. Rain 5-8+ inches, locally higher windward.
• Anticipated Iselle conditions for Oahu. Winds 40-50 mph, gusts to 55+ mph. Rain 4-7+ inches, locally higher windward.
• Anticipated Iselle conditions for Kauai. Winds 35-45 mph, gusts to 50+ mph. Rain 4-7+ inches, locally higher windward.
• Onset of Iselle tropical storm force winds on Big Island is 4 p.m. Thursday.
• Onset of Iselle tropical storm force winds on Maui is 9 p.m. Thursday.
• Onset of Iselle tropical storm force winds (39+ mph) on Oahu is 6 a.m. Friday, 4 p.m. Friday for Kauai.
• As it passes south, the closest approach of Iselle to Honolulu is forecast to be 9 a.m. Friday.

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to NO LONGER live on a boat!

Posts are set through next week. Should power be off

I'll see you as soon as I can, dear Friends.

Remember: ALOHA means "Love"

                                                            Your Pal, cloudia

Linking to Skywatch Friday  LINK

Denizens of Waikiki Fence Edition

A  L  O  H  A ! 

About the Hurricanes: Yes, two storms are headed this way. We rode out Iniki on our boat 20 years ago. This time, the storms are much smaller, and we live in a modern, reinforced steel building. It may be exciting but
should not be dangerous. Power outage is our most likely effect. We are Ready. Your prayers, good wishes, AND COMMENTS are nonetheless appreciated. 
                                        Thanks Dear Friends

" Hate 

cannot drive out 

hate; 

only love 

can do that." 

                    Martin Luther King, Jr.

" The only difference

 between a rich person

 and poor person 

is how they 

use their time. "

                                        Robert Kiyosaki

Setting up 

for a nice fence 

and texture shot.

Hey! Is that a. . . .

Yes! A little Neighbor

Taking the 

Morning Air.

" The hardest job
 kids face today
 is learning good manners 
without seeing any. "
                                                  Fred Astaire

Construction Fence Portraits
" We never disclose our own character so clearly as when we describe another's. "

                       Jean Paul

GOTTA link this 
to Good Fences
[a great meme]

Here

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Thank YOU

for bringing the fun!

Fondly, cloudia

Spiral of Revival

A  L  O  H  A !

" The turning point

 in the process of 

growing up 

is when you 

discover the 

core of strength 

within you 

that survives all hurt." 

                             Max Lerner 

" The spiral in a snail's shell

 is the same mathematically 

as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, 

and it's also the same mathematically 

as the spirals in our DNA. 

It's the same ratio 

that you'll find 

in very basic music 

that transcends cultures 

all over the world."

                     Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“In order to see birds
 it is necessary to
 become a part of
 the silence.” 
                    Robert Lynd

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Thanks for Swinging By!
                            Warmly, cloudia

Wild Oahu Bird Wednesday

A  L  O  H  A !

Tropicbird

" To stand at the edge of the sea,

 to sense the ebb and flow 

of the tides, 

to feel 

the breath of a mist 

moving over a great salt marsh, 

Booby

" - to watch the flight of shore birds 

that have swept up

 and down the surf lines 

 for untold thousands of year, 

Red Crested Cardinal

" -is to have knowledge

 of things that are 

as nearly eternal 

as any earthly life can be.

                                                     Rachel Carson

Thanks to Carroll Cox for the Sea Bird Photos

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Linking to

Wild Bird Wednesday

Here

Thanks!

           Warmly, cloudia

I Believe

A  L  O  H  A !

" The most common way

people give up their power

is by thinking

they don't have any. "

                       Alice Walker

"The most exhausting 

thing you can be

is inauthentic. "

             Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Beware of false knowledge;

it is more dangerous

than ignorance. "

                 George Bernard Shaw

" There is no cosmetic

 for beauty like 

happiness. "

               Lady Marguerite Blessington

Indian Mynas

More Mynas 

" Every moment is 

a golden one for 

the person who has 

the vision to 

recognize it as 

such. "

                                   Henry Miller

" I believe in being

STRONG

when everything 

seems

to be going 

wrong"

                    Audrey Hepburn

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Thank You!

                         cloudia

Sunset Soliloquy

  A  L  O  H  A  !       

Aloha means 

a LOT more

 than "Hello" "Goodbye"

It is "Hello with Love" 

and also 

"Goodbye with Love."

A Hawaiian Namaste. 

Let us say proper 

Aloha Farewell 

to a Day- 

"...And great cloud-continents 

of sunset-seas.  "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich,

 "Miracles"

Dragon Follows the Sun

 'If the sky 
 could dream, 
 it would dream 
 of dragons.' 
              Ilona Andrews 

Dragon Pause Portrait

Play - DO!

" Rise up nimbly 
and go on your 
strange journey 
to the ocean of 
meanings.... 
Leave and 
don't look away 
from the sun 
as you go, 
in whose 
light you're 
sometimes crescent, 
sometimes full. "
                    Rumi

" Come sit with me!
 Let us drink
 the holy wine 
of happiness. "
                          Rumi

" Tonight 
the moon kisses 
the stars." 
                       Rumi

Good Night, my Dears!
                  Fondly, cloudia

Hawaiian Chief

A L O H A !

Honolulu's Kakaako Neighborhood

" There's no point

 in being grown up 

if you can't be

 childish sometimes. " 

                          Dr. Who

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See other Murals

Here

                 Ciao! cloudia