KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog
Hopefully, blogger.com is back among the living. I couldn't post anything over the past few hours during the maintainance procedure that apparently went crazy. Such is life. Nothing is certain but death and taxes--my rather poor paraphrase of Ben Franklin's sage advice. The past few weeks have been a real media circus in the radio station news room, with all of the natural disasters on the U.S. mainland, the reported death of Al-Qaeda co-founder Osama bin Laden, and the beginnings of the 2012 General Elections. On Hawaii Island, the weather was the hot topic of the day, with Kailua-Kona, Oahu, and Kauai getting super soaked over the past few days. All of the rain was helpful, but it won't make much of a dent in the ongoing drought which has gripped the islands for two years. Even with all of the tropical showers, Hilo is still only gettting about 60 percent of its normal precipitation. The Kohala, Ka'u, and Kailua-Kona areas are hurting for lack of water. Catt