Its da bomb!

Its da bomb! was Originally Posted on June 15, 2010 by lavarock

An expression heard locally is “it’s da bomb”, meaning cool, neat! However, that expression takes on a whole new meaning here in Hawaii.

The police website reads: “Police advise the public not to touch anything that appears to be old military ordnance and to call police immediately.”

You see, Hawaii wa snot just at risk, we were at war before. Remember Pearl harbor? Well all islands have a tendency of containing unexploded ordinances; some from the war, some just from the military. Still, you don’t want t otake chances, so you call the police. Here is the news release: https://local.nixle.com/alert/2527113/

If you are not aware, many cities and areas are listed in Nixle and you can have news sent to you as it happens.

At least 9 people have been killed or injured since the 1940’s here, just on the Big Island. Two years ago, middle school students in Waimea where digging a garden and found metal. Three or four students handled it before calling the teacher. Turns out it was a LIVE GRANADE! Ordinance experts were called and fould 3 more. That was one for each student involved… Imagine if one had gone off, the other 3 may have also!

Another resident dug up a piece of a rocket (just outside his front door). Luckily it was not the explosive side.

An article about it is here: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Mar/01/ln/ln01a.html

So as the real estate people tell you, “location, location, location” makes all the diference.

I know that other parts of the country have their problems and I feel for them. But we too are in the path of problems. At any time we could find a granade in the yard, have an earthquake, a tsunami, and we have recently thought we were the target of a missle from a foreign country.

Why just a dock strike can cut off our food supply and the next things coveted in a strike are toilet paper and water. That is not to say we would starve, because we grow lots of fruit here and have local beef. I’m sure we could last quite a while on this. Also, we also have lots of leaves and a big ocean