Happy endings are always worth the story.

With still trying to fight this pneumonia, I spent the majority of my Saturday sitting on the couch reading and watching TV. Something I normally do not get to do, but my mom and step dad were nice enough to come visit and entertain my 3 1/2 year old daughter. My daughter has just gotten over a double ear infection and a cold, which is great, however I need some rest now and she just wants to go go go.
I turned on the TV to CNN to catch up on what was going on in the world. Imagine my surprise when it was coverage of the earthquake in Chile and the tsunami that was going to hit Hawaii, particularly Hilo where my brother's girlfriend is from. I called my brother, he and his girlfriend Leslie live in Arizona, to let them know what was going on and send Leslie my best wishes that her family would be safe.
As I watched CNN my concern grew rapidly. I watched as people in Hilo were evacuated. I watched as they showed pictures of a previous tsunami that hit Hilo in the 1960's that caused wide spread damage and death. My concern turned into an obsession, I needed to keep watching the TV. The best I can describe it is it was like reading a suspense novel, I needed to know what was going on, what was going to happen, how it was going to end. As the time for the climax neared, so did my obsession. My heart started racing, everyone was ordered to sit down and be quiet or leave the room, and heaven help them if they stood in front of the TV. And then it happened, nothing. Yup that is right, nothing.
I sat there feeling a multitude of emotions. I felt relief and joy that Leslie's family was not in danger. I am also ashamed to say that I felt a little disappointment that the climax never came. I have read comments out there in cyberspace, comments made by uneducated people who say that there is no cause for such wide spread panic, that in this day and age we should be able to better predict what is going to happen. These people need to learn to enjoy the story and take a ending where no destruction was caused and no one was hurt for what it is, a happy ending to a truly great story.