Tuesday

Well, today has been spent getting ready for the Hurricane Lane.  About noon everything got pretty hectic, we got phone calls and texts alerting us to the eminent dangers.  I sent Elder Sanft to Foodland to purchase more water, Laie was out so he went to the one by Wiamea which is closer to us anyway.  He came home and filled up the two large coolers with water to use for washing etc.  We watched the news and weren't too worried.

Then later we went over to President Fullmer's house.  What a difference knowing something or having gone through something before means. They were on high alert over there.  Both he and his councilor were so worried.   The councilor's wife had  gone to Costco that morning and it was crazy.  Later we saw what she reported on the news.  I guess so many people were there they parked their cars all over the streets surrounding Costco because the parking lot was so full.  And inside the store the lines were to the back of the store and all checkout areas were working full speed.

I know the schools are closed and BYUH has two big areas, like one is a gym, to house people if needed.  Anyway, we stopped at Foodland at 9:00 on our way home and got some milk and all the water was gone.  But the shelves weren't empty yet.  President Fullmer took us out to see his truck, he had I think he said 2500 gallons of water in the back.  It was filled up with 5 gallon jugs and pallet after pallet of water bottles.  He said he got them straight from the distributor.  He said he has so much family on the island that they'll all shelter at his place.  He gave us a 5 gallon jug of water.

The news last night was kind of scary.   Our landlord, the electrician, said he has a huge generator he'll hook up to help.  That sounds good since I forgot we have refrigerators that need electricity.  We will be okay, I'm sure.  We may be stranded since our lane is dirt and will get water from the ocean even with the drains around.  But we can hunker down.  I know we'll be needed to help in the cleanup when it's over.  I hope everyone is safe.  There are so many homeless everywhere here.

I had made two of my pinacolda cakes to take with a salad to the Fuller's for the dinner/meeting and one was left so I ran it upstairs to the Hancocks.  We kind of sick of this cake,  I've made it so much lately.  Well, we'll see what tomorrow brings.  The hurricane is due to hit us, if it does, on Thursday morning.  We had to cancel lunch with the Sisters, which was to be Thursday.