Backyard Hawaii

Hurricane Preparedness in Hawaii: August 2007
Flossie Takes Aim at the Islands – but who will win?
What kind of a name is Flossie anyway? I mean REALLY! What?! Is she going to come on in and floss through our streets?
Honolulu Advertiser reports at 12noon today, August 13, 2007:
Hurricane Flossie has dropped from a Category 4 hurricane […]

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WOW!
Nuff said for today’s “music video”.
If ya’ like Big Wave surfing - or just watching people live life to the max, you’ll enjoy this compilation of the coolest big waves, and see a legend in the surfing world. This type of surfing inspires me to face my fears head on, and keep pushing forward.

Life’s […]

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If you think it’s scary to move from one side of the country to the other…
(ooooh, I dunno… let’s say from New York City to the Island of Oahu in Hawaii…
Check out this Big Wave Surfer and rethink anything you originally thought
was scary…

YAH! Thas whad I’m talkin’ about! wicked huge right?!?! Now - Go […]

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Pictures of Kaaawa’s rainy weather this week - the worst rainy storm in over 30 years!
It certainly re-landscaped our backyard in Hawaii. JP always said he wanted a stream in his backyard… well.. this week - he sure got what he wanted. (Be careful what you wish for.)
Lots of flooding with over 24-inches of […]

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Aloha,
Welcome to the personal blog for Deborah Cole & John-Paul Micek.
This is where we’ll share our personal story “Pulp Fiction Style” (as in… backwards, forwards, jumping time all around). We’ll be going “back in time” and pulling out pages from our personal journal to share what our BIG MOVE was like…
our hopes,
our dreams,
our […]

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