May | 2025 | Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell

writer / photographer / book designer / anthropologist

Tsunami 2010

On 27 February, 2010, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile, and sent a tsunami across the Pacific towards Hawai’i. Would it be large? Small? The NOAA image above shows an early prediction. 6 AM. Sirens. I’m lying awake, ready to get up, drink some coffee, go downtown and run 10k along the bayfront, where it’s…

.308 Winchester

The summer after my father lost his business in the great tsunami of 1960 we were cash-poor. I was just 17 and managed to get a job with the Hawai’i State Department of Fish & Game, which oversaw much of Mauna Kea, a large mountain with a lot of wildlife on it, out of a…