Hurricane Lala passed over south Big Island, but the eye apparently did not make landfall.  Lala was at that time a hurricane at 80 MPH.  Some quotes: Hurricane Lala began pulling away from the Big Island late Saturday night, but damaging winds and torrential rain continued to pose a serious threat, with a flash flood emergency in effect for Naalehu after two homes were reportedly swept away by floodwaters. Lala remained a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph as of 11 p.m. Saturday, according to the National Weather Service. The storm was located about 65 miles west of Kailua-Kona and 130 miles south-southeast of Honolulu and was moving northwest at 15 mph. Additional rainfall of 4 to 8 inches is expected across the Big Island and windward Maui, with storm totals potentially reaching 30 to 35 inches over the windward Big Island. Elsewhere in the island chain, 4 to 6 inches of rain is expected, with maximum amounts of up to 8 inches. Gov. Josh Green said ...

Day 2 in Hong Kong started with an excellent buffet breakfast. For lunch in the Club Lounge, the feature was, of all the things. Spaghetti Bolognese. Not the standard SB, but good enough.   Decided then to look around the environs of the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong hotel, which is an anchor tenant with the newish Kowloon Station in West Kowloon, linked to a sprawling and grandiose shopping mall.  Hard to find total costs, but perhaps $10 billion has been spent, and another $10 billion will probably be needed to complete the development.  The International Commerce Center, which was built in 2010 with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the top, paved the way for this all.  There is the old Hong Kong around the Peninsula and Sheraton hotels, but the West Kowloon Cultural District, with the tallest building and Kowloon Station, which opened in 2018, is already the Hong Kong of the future. A stroll around the outside. As we were about to leave, we noticed a free tram that took yo...

Finally, as the Ritz-Carlton Luminara docks in Hong Kong, China, I thought the following documentary videos were worthy of sharing. Above, the world's largest radio telescope, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telscope (FAST), also called Sky Eye.  Remember the Puerto Rico version which was used in the film,  Contact ?  That was 1000 feet in diameter.  FAST is 1640 feet wide. Shanghai 65,000 drone show to open the year 2026.    Also,  the advancements made in China . China just shocked the world with what it’s building. While other nations invest trillions in wars and weapons, China is using that same power to build the future through innovation, construction, and technology. From colossal bridges that connect entire provinces to high-speed railways crossing mountains and undersea tunnels stretching for miles, these are the China megaprojects that are redefining what it means to build a modern nation. In just two decades, China has become the w...