3.12.11 Adam News & Info

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I loved Christian Siriano...she has great taste and she is his friend too. Thanks for this interview. I know others who have Graves Disease. It can really be devastating until they get it under control.

he is just so cutee!
(and thank you ninni!)

She is really likeable - and funny in that interview.

Good morning, everyone!

four56, so happy to hear that you are safe, even though there is still so much going on in Japan. I don't know if there are any other Atop peeps in Japan as I just scanned yesterdays thread.

My thoughts & prayers go out to ALL in Japan, and all other places that have been affected. To me, this is so overwhelming that I can't quite wrap my mind around it, even though I have been watching since late Thurs. night. Just so very frightening and sad.

It may seem strange that I could be affected, living in the central US. But, I have a son and a brother in HI. I didn't get much sleep Thurs. night, for sure.

Aloha, so glad you are safe also. Your tweets kept me calm during the night & early morning, even though my son is on the Big Island. Thank you so much!

My son called while I was at work yesterday. He is fine, which I was sure he would be. He used to live right on the coast at Kona, but moved last year, to a much higher altitude. My brother is at a much higher elevation, so knew all was well with him.

I called my son back when I got home from work yesterday. There is quite a bit of damage at Kona and up and down the coastline. No lives were lost, so that's the most important thing. I saw a video of the surge along Ali'i drive, the highway that runs through Kona right along the water. I recognized where it was and it made me sad to see the flooding. Really stupid guy who was standing in the middle of it taking the video though.

My son said his workplace was severely damaged. He works at the Four Seasons resort (north of Kona). He is a chef there and said the resturant that he works in was totally flooded. Said there were lawn chairs floating around in the kitchen. This was a fairly new resturant, about 1.5 years old. I remember he told me that the kitchen alone cost about $7 million. Of course, that's just material things, not lives, so definately not so important.

I'm a bit concerned when he will be able to work again though. What I didn't know was that he has been off work because of his back. He thinks he has another bulging disk in his back and may have to have surgery again. Just another thing for Mom to worry about. But, he's a grown up now, so he'll deal with it.

He also told me that Bubba Gumps (a resturant in downtown Kona) was completely trashed. I've eaten there and it's right on the ocean. Really cute place. I'm sure all the shops right there were damaged in some way. Again, irrelevant as compared to loss of life.

We got to talking about the newest erruption of Kilauea, the active volcano on the Big Island. He said there were so many tourists who came there to see that, and ended up in the middle of a tsunami. I guess Four Seasons was finding places for all of their guests, and moving them there.

So, there was more damage than has been reported on the Big Island. I am going to do some googling today to see what I can find. I've been to so many place at Kona and along the coastline, that I want to see what all has happened.

I am so grateful that my family is safe. I'm so very sad for all those in Japan who have been lost, and their families who are grieving. As I said before, this is so very overwhelming to me.