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Friday, March 18, 2011
All Clear in Hawaii
Taken the same day the Tsunami struck...Oahu is a.o.k...and so is this couples' family (they're from Japan)
MOST OF OAHU IS OKAY, KONA TAKES THE BRUNT
The day after the tsunami hit I had a wedding shoot at Ko'olina Beach. As you can see, everything looked the same. In fact, the beach wasn't affected at all. If anything, the beach actually looked better because all the footprints were washed away. The waterline did look rather strange, but nothing significant.
Here is a video of what happened in Kona. A lot of the shops on the ocean were completely devastated. The Kona Village Resort, a nice little luxury bungalow village is completely ruined.
By the way, the guy who shot this is an idiot. He could have gotten killed.
There are experts who are predicting a rather big quake in either Alaska or California. I honestly think they are right. In the past year, Chile, New Zealand and Japan have had incredibly destructive earthquakes. That's three of the four corners of the ring-of-fire that had a major earthquake. You San Franciscians are next... Japan shifted 13 feet closer to Hawaii, which means the pressure on his continental plate needs to go somewhere.
It's 12:38am and I'm anxiously awaiting what will happen at 3:07am. I'm pretty farther inland and at a high elevation, so I'm very safe from a tsunami if it hits Oahu. So there's truly no need to worry about me. As I write, the tsunami warning sirens are going off and the police are making sure residents in the lower lying areas of Oahu are evacuated. I think the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that we may have a 6 or 9 foot wave hit us. While that doesn't sound like much of a wave, this is not a normal wave. This is a moving tide wave that doesn't break like your normal wave. It's extermely long and moves across the ocean at a speed of 500mph. The power is just incredible.
Like you, I've been glued to the footage that I've seen on the television. The amazing footage of the tsunami that came ashore in Japan is just incredibly horrifying.. You could literally see this gigantic wave of ocean swooping across the farmlands of Japan at an incredible speed. It was terrifying to watch dozens of cars and vans on the highways of Japan try to avoid the oncoming tsunami. It was terrfiying to watch cars make the wrong decision and then get swept away....
I'll be shutting down my computer after I write this post so I'll be unable to answer my latest emails inquiries for a bit. I'm truly hoping we have power throughout the islands tomorrow. I'm hoping that tsunami won't take out our power plants, but that is truly a possibility.
I'm not worried, but throwing some prayers toward us won't hurt. Once this passes over, I'll give you an update on what's happening.
I've been extremely busy this week so I haven't been able to really post anything new here on my blog....but, I did just find this cool Extreme Home Makeover episode with a wedding in it. It's a tear jerker episode, like all of them.
I think I'm a lot better looking than Pauly Shore, but I felt as though I were in a movie!
JURY DOOTY
Hurry up and wait, there‘s a murderer in town
If I didn‘t answer my phone on Monday, it‘s because it was off, as I was in court serving as a juror. Yes, that‘s juror, not the defendant. I'm the LEGAL wedding guy. So how close did I get? Lets just say I was literally a hair from being one of the 12 jurors as my my number was actually pulled during the lottery process. Luckily, the judge dismissed me because I expressed to him that I could not be an impartial juror due to my prior life experiences.
A large part of me wanted to serve as a juror on this case as it was a good one. It was a murder case, one that would gather a lot of local media attention, and the case that the State's had brought forth was based highly on circumstantial evidence, so this meant that the jury would have to something to mull over. But if I did serve, it would mean that I would not be available to the future weddings that I had planned in the beginning of March as this case would probably finish mid or late March.
ME IMPARTIAL? NO WAY.
But what surprised me was that I couldn‘t be impartial juror to the defendant. I do believe that in court, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty. But when the lawyers questioned the jurors to find which juror would best fit their case, I could already figure out what the prosecution and defenses arguments were going to be, and I had come to a predetermined assumption that this guy was guilty. I sat there in the jury pool and listened to these lawyers pour over metaphors and to the jurors who were picked, and it I knew how they were going to present their case. (I think my screenwriting past helped me.)
The nail was put into the coffin when the defense dismissed jurors because they either owned and fired guns. A former Air Force soldier was dismissed by the defense because he knew too much about gun safety. When that soldier was being questioned, I saw the defendant get highly uncomfortable in his chair. A second later, the defendant and his lawyer held a conference and they dismissed the soldier.
In my mind, I kept thinking “You did it you bastard.“ Maybe I came to this pre-conceived conclusion because I watch too many crime mystery tv shows, or maybe it was because of my past experiences. I just couldn‘t be an impartial juror. This guy was not innocent until proven guilty to me, he was 100% guilty......
