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The
earsplitting alarm wailed
at 11:50 a.m. and could not be ignored. It reminded me of the civil defense tests of my cold war childhood. Sarah was on a work call but quickly cut it off because neither of us was sure what was going on. Paia got slammed by a tsunami in 1946 and I wondered if history was about to repeat itself. A quick search showed they test the warning system without warning the first of every month. After that bit of excitement we went to pick up some palm fronds from a pruner who was just going to throw them in an irrigation ditch anyway. (Sarah has been teaching herself weaving.) We carried the unwieldy leaves through town just in time to be captured by the Google streetview camera car.* We waved & smiled to drone army paparazzi. *Photo to be posted once map goes live. |
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