Last night’s tsunami was a lot smaller than anticipated, peaking at about five feet (peak to trough) at Kahului on Maui. Nobody here is screeching about the forecasters crying wolf, though. These things are scary. Orderly evacuations of low-lying areas went pretty well, apparently, but traffic was a mess in East Honolulu.

I’m glad to see the people on the East Coast are taking Sandy seriously.

Why can’t they give hurricanes horrific names? Sandy sounds like the girl next door. Why not Iocanthe or something equally doom-ish?