An update from this morning for those of you wondering how things are going out here in the Hawaiian Standard Time zone with one, two, or even three hurricanes possibly bearing down on us. Here’s the view out of our office window, circa 1715 hours (that’s 5:15pm HST), August 7, 2014.
Pretty much everything is closed down tomorrow: government offices, the state and federal courts, and private businesses, including our firm. We squeaked in an oral argument this morning in the Hawaii Supreme Court, but as of now, most folks are leaving the downtown area and heading home to hunker down.
I’ve ridden out at least one prior Hawaii hurricane, and for whatever it’s worth, this one doesn’t have that pre-event “bad feeling” that accompanied that one, so my sense is that the next few days won’t be so bad. I hope I am right, but we’re all doing the right thing by preparing for the worst, just in case.