The power is out in Mililani so I’m testing out my gear.

Boiled water for ramen on a Trangia alcohol stove. My wife went with a mountain house meal as a moral booster. (gallons of iso alcohol in storage)

I’ve got rechargeable AA’s and a usb AA charger for my am/fm radio. I’ve also got a bunch of 5,000 and 10,000 mAh usb backup batteries as well as fold out solar panels to charge them. I can still get a little juice even when it’s overcast.

I’ve got candles and some usb rechargeable nitecore flashlights for light and years worth of matches, zippos, and zippo fluid.

Good to go for weeks if needed. How are you guys doing?

mom cooked rice and chopped cabbage before power went out
used cassette feu to make kalua pig and cabbage
drank bottled water from stash

power was only off for 1.5 hours...

Yep I'm prepped

We ended our evening making fried spam and instant mash with a Coleman canister stove. The water stayed on so no problem for doing dishes and we keep a stash of paper plates to save on water if it were to go out. Power came back on in Mililani around 0145. I heard my wife bragging up my preps to the mother-in-law. High praise!

Uneventful in Aiea, periodic hard rain, some gusts, but power stayed on.

Only thing I did was clear out my rain gutters which were blocked.

Power was stable my Village Park/Kunia area, but I have preps, just in case.
Yesterday I went to Waipahu town and power was out everywhere.
When the rain eased up, I walked the doggies to the park and helped clean up fallen tree branches and a lot of beer bottles and cans that some drunks threw by the kid's playground.

Our power went out about noon at Mililani Mauka.  It did not go back on until 3 am. the next day.  My mother-in-law lives in Ola Loa a senior living community.  The power was out and only went on this morning a 1am!

Gotta find out why.  Poor senior citizens must've been having a hard time.  My wife and I visited her mom twice to heat water for her and heat up some food to eat.  Then my sister-in-law went to stay with her.  Auwe!

And my grown daughters also live in Mililani Mauka.  One had her power out the same length of time as me and my other one was just like my mother-in-law:  Power came on this morning at 2am.

I've always my whole life kept flashlights, batteries, stoves, butane cannisters, lanterns, candles and all kinds of emergency stuff like water containers, etc.  I remind my kids and their inept husbands to do the same.

And guess what.  Guess who is driving all over fricken Mililani Mauka to deliver batteries and lanterns, and butane cannisters, and flashlights?

Yours truly since my kids no like listen.   Rather spend their money going karaoke, Chile's, Zippy's. and eating Hot Pot.

Damn keeeds.....

They going get one lecture from me (again) after all this blows over.  Gunfunnit....  

  Our power was out from Friday 8:45 am till 4:20 pm Saturday.
We had lights, hot food, hot showers and didn't miss a beat.
Already cleaned out the gutters Wednesday/


   Sorry but other than mom, your just enabling the kids.
If they were prepped, they could have taken care of Gigi and you (nor SIL) would not have had to drive.
JMNSHO.

Our power went out about noon at Mililani Mauka.  It did not go back on until 3 am. the next day.  My mother-in-law lives in Ola Loa a senior living community.  The power was out and only went on this morning a 1am!

Gotta find out why.  Poor senior citizens must've been having a hard time.  My wife and I visited her mom twice to heat water for her and heat up some food to eat.  Then my sister-in-law went to stay with her.  Auwe!

And my grown daughters also live in Mililani Mauka.  One had her power out the same length of time as me and my other one was just like my mother-in-law:  Power came on this morning at 2am.

I've always my whole life kept flashlights, batteries, stoves, butane cannisters, lanterns, candles and all kinds of emergency stuff like water containers, etc.  I remind my kids and their inept husbands to do the same.

And guess what.  Guess who is driving all over fricken Mililani Mauka to deliver batteries and lanterns, and butane cannisters, and flashlights?

Yours truly since my kids no like listen.   Rather spend their money going karaoke, Chile's, Zippy's. and eating Hot Pot.

Damn keeeds.....

They going get one lecture from me (again) after all this blows over.  Gunfunnit....

just a trivial comment.....
I got 4 kids.
One lives in vegas
One lives in Germany
One is on vacation in vegas

The last one came to visit and check up on Dad yesterday because he lives in Mililani and there was no power there.
That one was also on standby affiliated with HI-EMA  (emergency management agency)
He told me that a lot of cell towers were off, so no cell phone service. They are supposed to have battery backup power.
About 50 years ago, I studied battery technology. I know for a fact that even with the latest and greatest batteries, they don't last more than a few years.
I suspect the cell towers aren't being maintained as much as they should due to the cost of replacing the batteries. That's just my educated guess.
We dodged a big bullet with this one.

  Our power was out from Friday 8:45 am till 4:20 pm Saturday.
We had lights, hot food, hot showers and didn't miss a beat.
Already cleaned out the gutters Wednesday/


   Sorry but other than mom, your just enabling the kids.
If they were prepped, they could have taken care of Gigi and you (nor SIL) would not have had to drive.
JMNSHO.

I hear you.  I going lecture again not sure if that is going to sink in their heads.  Disappointed with their husbands and significant others.

I going talk to my wife.  Next time, even though I have extra, I going say nothing and see if they come crying to daddy.

I turning 70 this year.  When they going learn.  I bet when I kick the bucket.