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And so I wait again.  This time there's  a category 5 hurricane hurling toward us as the entire state of Hawaii waits like a sitting duck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.   The island of Oahu is on hurricane watch.  We made all the preparations that I could think of.  This included several trips to the grocery stores.  I kept thinking of that one more item I had to be sure I had enough supply of.  You know, important things like toilet paper or chocolate.   We read all the latest information so we knew what to include in our 'hurricane kits'.    I gave our son, Nathanael a summer project of making sure our house is hurricane ready but I neglected to check his work.   I better get a few more dried goods at Wal mart AND water.  We can never have too much water.  Soon, images of the big island, maui drenched in inches of rain stream the t.v and social media.   I look out our window and see only grey skies and ligh...