I think I’m through to the other side now. Or at least I hope so! On the other hand, there seems to be this curious fog descending onto my consciousness. Or maybe I’m just imagining it, from the characterizations of others, concerning this particular variant of the plague? Either way, it’s a distinct sensation — or, rather, an impression of one. Like I said, it’s all kinda hazy out here. Accompanying that is a sense of ennui. Listlessness, a desire to do nothing, get no goal accomplished, no matter how trivial.

And then, I heard of the tsunami alert sent to the eastern and central Pacific, and West Coast of N. America, due to the massive, magnitude 8.7 earthquake off of Kamchatka, Russia, this morning. There were no alerts here in San Francisco, but I saw the news pop up at any rate, via the usual feeds. Then, heard from Pono around 6:30 p.m. my time; he was driving home, as the pizza shop closed up for the day as soon as the first alerts rang out. First tsunami wave arrival in Hawaii was estimated at 7:17 p.m. local time. He’ll be upcountry long before then.

Family group text worried, too. Sis Margie and her son JJ and his fam’s homes are just at the edge of the yellow part of the inundation zone map of Kahului (see below). She’s driven up to Wailuku Heights anyhow. Not heard from Johnny yet. Pono’s workplace at Ka’anapali Parkway Shops closed early, for good reason. And he said traffic back to town, and then from town to upcountry, was crazy. I remember the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, and the tsunami that reached Maui. It went inland at Kanaha Beach, for quite a ways, towards the airport. I recall driving past there afterwards a day or so later and seeing all the vegetation at the beach, dunes and swampy area covered with debris from the waves.