I was out playing golf yesterday morning over on the Waianae Coast at Makaha Valley Country Club. We finished up around 12:15 and instead of sticking around for lunch I decided to head on home. Anyway I got home and was working away on the computer at around 3:30 when I got a phone call from my golfing buddy. He said, "Where are you right now"? I said, "Sitting here at home. Why, what's up"? He said, " I was just checking up that you didn't get crushed by one of the falling telephone poles". WTF? Falling telephone polls? It turns out that a large gust of wind sheared 13 telephone poles across Farrington Highway, crushing cars and blocking traffic for hours and hours. I must have gotten past them just about 10-15 minutes before it happened! And, if I had stayed for lunch, I wouldn't have gotten home until after 4:30! Yikes! There were a couple of big wind gusts on the golf course but nothing that would knock down a telphone pole. Strange and wild stuff. Click right here to read the Honolulu Advertiser article and see the pictures. By the way, in case you were wondering how my golfing round went, let's just say that I parred 2 out of the last 3 holes and leave it at that :)