Wednesday afternoon.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:17:05 PM GMT-11:00

Been at the hospital all day, although I’m currently at the Samoa News building. Katrina has been working mostly in the ER today. Only a little bit in the morgue, thankfully.

Things are slowly getting cleaned up here, and parts of the island are looking better. Our village is still without power and water, and will remain so for awhile. They’re currently saying it may take up to a month to get power restored to our side of the island. Crazy. There’s a substation close to the canneries (the tuna canneries are between our house and Pago Pago), and the whole substation is down. That area got hit particularly badly. They tried to figure out how to get some new generators from New Zealand, but NZ is on a different power cycle than we are, so no dice on that. The new generators will most likely have to come in by boat, so we’re definitely looking at a decent bit of time before they can get here.

That’s the news for right now. Katrina and I are trying to get home before dark again. We have lots of candles and a couple flashlights, but we need to pack some things before (hopefully) flying out on Thursday. We’ll see. We’re going to want to take more stuff home with us now, just to make sure some of our stuff is safe.

That’s it for now.
I’ll post more whenever possible.