Again, Hawaii sidestepped Hurricane Lowell, or the other way around. In any case, there were some damages. Here is a video , titled, Chaos in Hawaii...Powerful Hurricane Lowell Wreaks Havoc, Devastating Kauai. And another. As the Silver Whisper approaches Hawaii, a story on how we became the 50th state in the Union. The following came through my e-mail, and I have no idea who wrote it. I'll use italics when I refer to the write-up and add a few graphics. Thank you, whoever you are. For six decades, Washington's answer was NO. Hawaii was not American enough. Senators said the reasons out loud. Hiram Fong remembered them all his life: "It was said that we were Communist-infiltrated, that there were too many orientals here, that we would not be good Americans." Mississippi's James Eastland put it even plainer. Statehood would mean "two votes against all racial segregation." For the men who ran the Senate, that was reason enough to keep ...
The best news of all for us on the Silver Whisper, two days away from arriving in Hilo, is that Hurricane Lowell came, caused relatively minor damage, and left. Hurricane Karina is now a post-tropical cyclone, with eye west and north of the Hawaiian Islands, while moving away, and Hurricane Marie is a post-tropical cyclone at 40 MPH and continues north, away from Hawaii. Our ship is located just about where the eye of Karina was a couple of days ago, Good timing. The seas around us are supposedly of 7-foot waves, but these must be large swells, for I can't see any wave-like formation. For the past few days we have had difficulty walking around, for there is considerable rocking and rolling. Other news of the day: The NFL season kicks-off tomorrow at 8:25PM EDT on NBC with the New England Patriots at the Seattle Seahawks. Bet you forgot that the Seahawks won the last Super Bowl? Predictions? They are mostly wrong. Read this. And Yahoo used Ar...