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<br />children’s children and everybody else that has children in the future in the community for both
<br />short term and long them health reasons. In our case, I’d like to just give an example of how it
<br />was. We had no clue that the geothermal plant had a problem the night of the hurricane. Around
<br />7:30, we heard a big roar like a jet plane, and curious to know why a jet plane would be flying
<br />during a hurricane, within 10 minutes after that incident, we all, in a household of 6 people at the
<br />time, started smelling a sulfuric kind of smell, developed, all developed headaches, lethargy,
<br />respiratory situations, people started coughing and some of the people in my family had been
<br />coughing for, since then. I developed these sharp little pains in my stomach which happened
<br />starting the next morning and have still been going on. And following the advice that we heard
<br />at a geothermal meeting of follow up to the hurricane of people that had some symptoms, we
<br />went to the ER room of the Hilo Hospital along with several other people for testing. Tests were
<br />conducted, and this was several weeks ago. We’ve called, and they said they still don’t have
<br />results for us. Also, they suggested we go to the Pāhoa lab the next morning and have urine tests
<br />done and sent to a lab. We’ve checked in on those results, both at the lab and at the Puna Bay
<br />Clinic, and they said, the Puna Bay Clinic said they don’t have any record of those tests, and the
<br />lab said they were probably lost. They were sent to a lab on the mainland, and they were—it was
<br />recommended to the ER room by a Dr. Q-u-i-r-k, an MD in Waimea that had come to one of the
<br />meetings, and she said this is a specific lab that would test for the sulfide poisoning that we
<br />experienced. The lab in Pāhoa said that those tests were lost because that lab didn’t exist. We
<br />called the doctor back, and she said of course they exist, they had 11 branches, and she keeps
<br />using ‘em on a weekly basis, so, I’m a little concerned about how that bit of health information
<br />can get lost as well as like I said proper health study and regulation perhaps to keep these kind of
<br />health symptoms and allow us to live in paradise instead of something much worse. Thank you.
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<br />DOUVRIS, S.: Hello, my name is Stephanie Douvris, same address, 13-841 Pohoiki. My
<br />husband and I, our 3 children, and two visitors from New Zealand were at our house at the time
<br />and we were saying that we heard this jet roar. We went outside. It wasn’t raining at the time.
<br />It was just a lot of wind, and when we heard it, that it was just coming from one direction, which
<br />was the geothermal, we then realized that had gone off. We, it was kind of a miracle ‘cause we
<br />had, we have no cell phone reception where we are, but we do have Internet. And, at that time,
<br />the Internet went off, we had no way of communicating with anyone of where we were. You
<br />know, this is new technology but when you see it doesn’t work when the lines go down and
<br />Aloha Broadband had gone down. My daughter-in-law had her cell phone on. She had a
<br />different carrier. A text message came in, said that the geothermal had, had went off, and to
<br />evacuate, and this was about maybe 10 o’clock at night, and at that point, we were, could hear,
<br />all the trees going off like firecrackers, and we knew that we wouldn’t be able to get out. It took
<br />us two days just to get out of our driveway. We were stuck there. We couldn’t get out along
<br />with other people and luckily we had a, our neighbor had a chainsaw and a bulldozer which got
<br />us out. We did go to the meeting like we said. We went and had blood tests and all the tests to
<br />th
<br />show that we weren’t, we didn’t have the flu at the ER room. That was done on the 12, and
<br />th
<br />here it is already the 4. We went yesterday to the Pāhoa clinic, and they said they still don’t
<br />have the results back from our tests or you know for the urine tests or for the blood tests. And
<br />this is over, you know, almost a month now.
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<br />Other people that I’ve talked to have had worst problems. You know, you’ll probably hear some
<br />testimonies where people went to sleep about 9 o’clock and couldn’t wake up until 9 o’clock the
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