Updated at 8:29 a.m., Saturday, January 13, 2007
Threat of ocean problems now deemed over
Advertiser Staff
The O'ahu Civil Defense Emergency Operating Center shut down at about 3:15 this morning after determining that the threat of ocean inundation and other ocean-related problems had ended.
Public safety officials activated the center last night after becoming concerned that unusually high surf along the Wai'anae Coast, coupled with a higher than usual high tide about midnight and a change in ocean conditions resulting from a major earthquake northeast of Japan, might result in inundation problems along the Wai'anae Coast.
Police and firefighters urged campers along the coast to move to higher ground until the inundation threat passed.
Police dispatchers at about 3:10 a.m. began telling officers in the field who were monitoring the situation that the inundation threat was over.
