One of the interesting things we all learned yesterday was the value of old-style line-powered telephones. I have four or five of them around the house, mostly in rooms which aren’t widely used. Those all worked just fine (the phone system was up throughout Oahu); it was the newer cordless varieties which were useless, since they require electricity.

Here are some photos of some of the damage from yesterday morning’s earthquakes.

Here are more photos from West Hawaii Today, a Big Island newspaper. Many are reader-submitted.