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"content": "\u003cp>The ubiquity of boba drink shops in the Bay Area did not discourage Willy and Chelsea Tatola from pursuing their dream of opening one. Instead, it challenged the husband-and-wife team to offer something new and different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried to come up with a unique name that, once you came to our shop, you would never forget,” Willy Tatola says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is Kiss My Boba, which launched as a food truck more than four years ago and opened a storefront in October 2021. It’s located on the busy El Camino Real in San Bruno, just 10 minutes from San Francisco International Airport. Chelsea Tatola says that nearly every day, she serves customers who have just flown in and happen upon the shop. But there’s also a steady flow of repeat customers from the area around SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bunch of my husband’s family works for United,” she says, “which is just like six minutes from here.” It’s not only the convenient-to-SFO location that attracts customers, though — Kiss My Boba offers something that’s hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our most popular drink is a Tongan mango otai,” Willy Tatola says, “and it’s a specialty beverage that we’d have at our Tongan family functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tongan mango otai includes shredded coconut and mango. Willy Tatola is Tongan American — he was born and raised in the East Bay, and his family hails from the southern Pacific archipelago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling husband and wife holding young boy post in front of a sign inside their shop reading 'kiss my boba'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiss My Boba owners Chelsea and Willy Tatola and their son Viliami pose for a portrait at the shop in San Bruno on July 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when Kiss My Boba was a food truck, the Tatolas used to stop by cultural festivals around the Bay Area. One time, Willy’s mom mixed up a big batch of the special-occasion drink and brought it to the Kiss My Boba truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought two buckets to us and it sold out immediately,” Willy says. “After that, it clicked in my head that we should sell this drink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They use his mother’s recipe, and while they still prep the drinks by hand, they have upgraded from small cheese graters to commercial-size shredders to speed up the process (and reduce strain on hands). It’s so popular that some days they’ll have a special order for 100 drinks. Combined with shop and truck sales, Chelsea Tatola says that can mean making up to eight 5-gallon buckets. They’ve also introduced a watermelon otai, but Chelsea Tatola says that’s not yet on the regular menu because it’s hard to bring in as much fresh watermelon as they would need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"detail photo of two hands holding large plastic cups, one filled with a brownish reddish drink, the other a white and orange drink with boba at the bottom\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer at Kiss My Boba holds their drink orders at the shop in San Bruno on July 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boba is made from tapioca, which comes from cassava. Though widely available now across the United States, the boba tea origin story leads back to Taiwan. But Willy Tatola says tapioca is also a staple in the Tongan diet. It might be served as a starchy side, he says, or in a dessert called faikakai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Faikakai] has a tapioca base that we use. And it’s a similar texture to boba but just a little bigger,” he says, adding it’s served with a coconut cream and burnt sugar sauce. “Oh! That’s a good idea for a drink!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before becoming a boba drink developer, Willy Tatola worked as a particle scientist at Bayer. He enjoys how each new idea that sends him into the kitchen puts his science skills back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Iteration is key to getting the perfect recipe,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"four plastic cups filled with bright orange, pink, orange-yellow and brown boba drinks with 'kiss my boba' sign in background\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57160_007_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A variety of boba drinks sit on the counter at Kiss My Boba in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chelsea Tatola says she grew up in a restaurant family. She imagined she would someday find her way into the food arena, though she doubted her skills as a chef. She pursued a career in law enforcement and worked as a police detective, which she was still doing when the Kiss My Boba food truck started to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always had so much more fun working our boba food truck after work and on the weekends, that we’re like, 'We love this, why aren’t we doing this every day, all day?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More From the Hidden Gems Series' tag='hidden-gems']Empty storefronts during the pandemic offered an opportunity. They jumped to secure their current storefront space on the corner of a building with a small parking lot, where the food truck also can often be spotted loading up for an event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On busy days, the line of customers can snake out the front door and along the front of the building, as happened on a spring afternoon when Kiss My Boba offered some of its profits to the local Capuchino High School music boosters. Inside, customers order from kiosks or speak with a real person and can choose from boba shop staples like milk tea and unique spins the Tatolas have developed. Customer Christian Medina says it’s become his favorite boba shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Grandma’s strawberry milk is to die for. It’s so good with black boba,” he says. “And the otai ... oh my, can never miss, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Denisse Ramirez says she lives close by and comes in often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I ordered the strawberry lychee green tea. I order 100% sweetness with lychee jelly,” she says, which is her favorite combination. “I really like that and also the mangonada,” which is a mango smoothie with chamoy and tajin to give it some spice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919068\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman smiling behind counter with menu visible in background points while listening to a customer\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57167_018_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiss My Boba owner Chelsea Tatola helps customers at the shop in San Bruno. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Tatolas enjoy playing with fusion — of flavors, cultures and colors — and nostalgia also features heavily on the menu. One specialty is a brightly colored presentation of pineapple, green tea, green apple jelly and a splash of cranberry juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That drink is our 'Cool Runnings,'\" Chelsea Tatola says. \"That's one of our favorite Disney movies, 'Cool Runnings.'\" It’s about the unlikely Jamaican Olympic bobsled team — and the drink’s dark green and yellow layers give a nod to the green, yellow and black of the Jamaican flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also working on a horchata coffee, which will give a nod both to Mexican flavor and coffee culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been learning and working on coffee drinks, too, for more of the day crowd that wants coffee,” she says. “Or maybe people come in for their kids, or someone else, for boba but they like coffee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the boba truck booked solid this summer and walk-in business thriving at the shop, Willy and Chelsea Tatola are busy. And they hope they’ve given people a reason to remember Kiss My Boba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our most popular drink is a Tongan mango otai,” Willy Tatola says, “and it’s a specialty beverage that we’d have at our Tongan family functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tongan mango otai includes shredded coconut and mango. Willy Tatola is Tongan American — he was born and raised in the East Bay, and his family hails from the southern Pacific archipelago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919064\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919064\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"smiling husband and wife holding young boy post in front of a sign inside their shop reading 'kiss my boba'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57154_001_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiss My Boba owners Chelsea and Willy Tatola and their son Viliami pose for a portrait at the shop in San Bruno on July 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back when Kiss My Boba was a food truck, the Tatolas used to stop by cultural festivals around the Bay Area. One time, Willy’s mom mixed up a big batch of the special-occasion drink and brought it to the Kiss My Boba truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She brought two buckets to us and it sold out immediately,” Willy says. “After that, it clicked in my head that we should sell this drink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They use his mother’s recipe, and while they still prep the drinks by hand, they have upgraded from small cheese graters to commercial-size shredders to speed up the process (and reduce strain on hands). It’s so popular that some days they’ll have a special order for 100 drinks. Combined with shop and truck sales, Chelsea Tatola says that can mean making up to eight 5-gallon buckets. They’ve also introduced a watermelon otai, but Chelsea Tatola says that’s not yet on the regular menu because it’s hard to bring in as much fresh watermelon as they would need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11919066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"detail photo of two hands holding large plastic cups, one filled with a brownish reddish drink, the other a white and orange drink with boba at the bottom\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/RS57161_011_KQED_KissMyBoba_07072022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A customer at Kiss My Boba holds their drink orders at the shop in San Bruno on July 7, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Boba is made from tapioca, which comes from cassava. Though widely available now across the United States, the boba tea origin story leads back to Taiwan. But Willy Tatola says tapioca is also a staple in the Tongan diet. It might be served as a starchy side, he says, or in a dessert called faikakai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Faikakai] has a tapioca base that we use. And it’s a similar texture to boba but just a little bigger,” he says, adding it’s served with a coconut cream and burnt sugar sauce. “Oh! That’s a good idea for a drink!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before becoming a boba drink developer, Willy Tatola worked as a particle scientist at Bayer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After at least three of Tonga’s smaller islands \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-tonga-red-cross-and-red-crescent-tsunamis-b89c5c17eaa82888374d78e450cffe9f\">suffered significant damage\u003c/a> from tsunami waves caused by the undersea eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano over the weekend, members of the Bay Area’s Tongan community are mobilizing to send aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family-owned shipping company based out of the Port of Oakland that regularly ships to Tonga is organizing a relief effort and preparing to send the first of two container ships with supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sesilia Langi Pahulu, operations manager for SF Enterprises, said that nearly all the company’s workers have family on Tonga and that many are still struggling to get in contact with relatives after the eruption and tsunami largely cut Tonga’s internet connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talked to our staff until the power and the phone lines went out Friday night,” said Pahulu. “They were all trying to get to higher ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Enterprises sends shipping containers to Tonga throughout the year, and estimates that the cargo ships will take between four and five weeks to arrive from the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of two ships carrying relief supplies for Tonga is scheduled to sail from Oakland on Friday. A second ship is scheduled to leave on Feb. 5. The deadline to drop off supplies for the second ship is by 4 p.m. on Feb. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is needed:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Drinking water\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Nonperishable foods that are easy to prepare\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Medical supplies including KN95 masks and first aid kits\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Paper towels\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where to drop off donations:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2525 Mandela Parkway, Suite 1\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94607 (\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/DTiZpy7M2585EyWB9\">map\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drop-off donations are accepted 8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/tongageologicalservice\">Tonga Geological Services\u003c/a>, plumes of smoke, ash and gas from the explosion on Saturday evening rose more than 12 miles above sea level and reached about 150 miles across.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Satellite imagery and reconnaissance aircraft showed the volcano coated the main island with a 0.78-inch layer of ash, preventing planes from landing on the runway at Fua’amotu International Airport. Volunteers sweeping the ash to clear a path for aircraft hope to have it ready by Thursday. Officials say one of the major problems facing Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu is the ash contaminating the rainwater residents rely on to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pahulu said donations of water and medical supplies will be shipped to the National Emergency Management Office (NEMO) in Tonga. She stressed that the recovery process will take a long time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not going to be something that’s going to be fixed in a month,” Pahulu said. “This is going to be ongoing for a year or two, I would imagine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other concern we have as a logistics company is, ‘What is the condition of the port in Tonga?'” Pahulu added, saying she hopes that by the time the first ship reaches the islands in four or five weeks, the infrastructure will be in place to distribute aid to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by KQED’s Alice Woelfle and The Associated Press. The embedded radio interview was produced by KQED’s Brian Watt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But after the tsunami, she got only silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of them answered,” Pauta said. “We were worried, my family and I, we were worried about our relatives back home in Tonga.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 61,000 Tongans live in the United States, according to the U.S. Census — a large number, compared to the total population of Tonga itself, which is about 105,000. A sizable Tongan community calls the Bay Area home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What little Pauta could see of her home island were videos streamed on Facebook Live from some Tongans immediately after the eruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so loud,” Pauta said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mele Pauta, a Bay Area Tongan interpreter\"]‘There is a thick coat of ash on the ground and just widespread damage of buildings.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Satellite images showed the \u003ca class=\"\" href=\"https://twitter.com/US_Stormwatch/status/1482229220415721475?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spectacular eruption\u003c/a> that took place Saturday evening, with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters. 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She said the volcanic eruption and subsequent tsunami struck fear in her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear ‘tsunami,’ it’s very scary because Tonga is an island and it’s pretty flat,” she said, meaning there are few places to flee for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some hope. People from New Zealand, Australia and elsewhere have pledged support, which Pauta said may be an avenue to get updates about specific people on the island of Tonga. And there haven’t been any reports of deaths from the island yet, another light in the gloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe they’re safe,” she said. Still, things seem dire for those trying to recover their lives. “There is a thick coat of ash on the ground and just widespread damage of buildings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Dave Snider, the tsunami warning coordinator for the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, said it was very unusual for a volcanic eruption to affect an entire ocean basin, and the spectacle was both “humbling and scary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The tsunami waves caused damage to boats as far away as New Zealand and Santa Cruz, California, but did not appear to cause any widespread damage. Snider said he anticipated the tsunami situation in the U.S. and elsewhere to continue improving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Tsunami advisories were earlier issued for Japan, Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. Pacific coast. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the eruption caused the equivalent of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. Scientists said tsunamis generated by volcanoes rather than earthquakes are relatively rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1482460106851770371/photo/1\">an NWS update as of 3:15 p.m. ET\u003c/a>, the highest surge was recorded in Port San Luis, Calif., where the water reached more than 4 feet over normal levels. Authorities had prepared early Saturday for the possibility of a small yet potentially disruptive surge. Beaches were cleared from San Diego to San Francisco. More than 100 people were evacuated from the boats, docks and shoreline of the Berkeley Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The tsunami advisory in the San Francisco Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901839/dont-go-to-the-beach-west-coast-under-tsunami-advisory\">was lifted Saturday night\u003c/a>, though Santa Cruz and other areas along the California coast were still under advisory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">The Tonga Meteorological Service said a tsunami warning was declared for all of the archipelago, and data from the Pacific tsunami center said waves of 2.7 feet were detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Component-root-0-2-55 Component-p-0-2-46\">Rachel Afeaki-Taumoepeau, who chairs the New Zealand Tonga Business Council, said she hoped the relatively low level of the tsunami waves would have allowed most people to get to safety, although she worried about those living on islands closest to the volcano. She said she hadn’t yet been able to contact her friends and family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji. All internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area Tongans were able to get hold of family just before the island went dark. Sosefo Penitani of Tracy works as secretary for the U.S. Tongan Catholic Chaplaincy and grew up in Tonga — he came to the Bay Area when he was 18, in 1986. He has 13 siblings and counts brothers, sisters and other family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in large families,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani told KQED he was able to talk to three of his siblings still living in the islands just before cellphone and internet service was completely disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good thing when we talked to them, the waves was coming is not a high-rise wave — they were talking about 3-, 4-foot instead of 10- or 20-foot waves there,” Penitani said. “So that’s the luckiest part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani said that, at first, his family didn’t take the possibility of a tsunami seriously. But they feel differently now. Penitani said he believes his family made it to some higher elevation on one side of the island. But he’s heard of homes in Tonga flooding. 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The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the eruption caused the equivalent of a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. Scientists said tsunamis generated by volcanoes rather than earthquakes are relatively rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWS_NTWC/status/1482460106851770371/photo/1\">an NWS update as of 3:15 p.m. ET\u003c/a>, the highest surge was recorded in Port San Luis, Calif., where the water reached more than 4 feet over normal levels. Authorities had prepared early Saturday for the possibility of a small yet potentially disruptive surge. Beaches were cleared from San Diego to San Francisco. 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She said she hadn’t yet been able to contact her friends and family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji. All internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Bay Area Tongans were able to get hold of family just before the island went dark. Sosefo Penitani of Tracy works as secretary for the U.S. Tongan Catholic Chaplaincy and grew up in Tonga — he came to the Bay Area when he was 18, in 1986. He has 13 siblings and counts brothers, sisters and other family in Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe in large families,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani told KQED he was able to talk to three of his siblings still living in the islands just before cellphone and internet service was completely disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The good thing when we talked to them, the waves was coming is not a high-rise wave — they were talking about 3-, 4-foot instead of 10- or 20-foot waves there,” Penitani said. “So that’s the luckiest part of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitani said that, at first, his family didn’t take the possibility of a tsunami seriously. But they feel differently now. Penitani said he believes his family made it to some higher elevation on one side of the island. But he’s heard of homes in Tonga flooding. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:18 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The tsunami advisory was canceled across the Northern California coast, including the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday night, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1482561912860598277\">according to the National Weather Service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some areas along the coastline are still under advisory and people should avoid going to the waterfront, for their own safety, from Santa Cruz to Rincon Point in Santa Barbara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original post, Saturday morning.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undersea volcano erupted Saturday near the Pacific nation of Tonga, sending tsunami waves crashing across the shore and people rushing to higher ground. Tsunami advisories were issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the U.S. Pacific coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaches in San Francisco and Marin County, the Berkeley Marina and waterfronts across the Bay Area were closed for public access Saturday in anticipation of higher tides. Damage caused by flooding was visible in the region across social media, from damaged docks in Marin County to submerged vehicles in Santa Cruz Harbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalFire reported that two fishermen were hospitalized after being swept in by the high tides at San Gregorio State Beach in San Mateo County. One was transported by helicopter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Garcia at the National Weather Service Bay Area \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1mrxmalRrjQxy\">said in a 12:30 p.m. update\u003c/a> that the ongoing tsunami advisory was needed as surges continue to hit the Bay Area, but that relief was on the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overall water height is coming down as we head towards low tide,” he said, but in that low tide “we continue to have the tsunami roll through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1482455516701884416\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the water height may not be as high as the Bay Area experienced earlier in the day, the ripples of tsunami height may cause unexpected wave amplitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even as the tide lowers, it can still run up the beach, grab you, your pets, your family, your loved ones, and take you out to sea as it recedes,” Garcia said. “So, it’s still a dangerous situation out there. Best course of action: Continue to remain away from the water, continue to remain up high. Don’t even go to the coast. Today’s just not the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the Department of Emergency Management, said she didn’t fear residential flooding but “we really want to keep people away from the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s especially crucial as the city’s public safety systems are “very, very strained at the moment” by the pandemic, she said, “so we are asking everyone to please keep themselves safe. Of course, we will respond as needed, but everyone is really stretched thin right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1482358329967923203\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano was the latest in a series of dramatic eruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth-imaging company Planet Labs PBC had watched the island in recent days after a new volcanic vent there began erupting in late December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Satellite images captured by the company show how drastically the volcano had shaped the area, creating a growing island off Tonga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The surface area of the island appears to have expanded by nearly 45% due to ashfall,” Planet Labs said days before the latest activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Saturday’s eruption, residents in Hawaii, in Alaska and along the U.S. Pacific coast were advised to move away from the coastline to higher ground and to pay attention to specific instructions from their local emergency management officials, said Dave Snider, tsunami warning coordinator for the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t issue an advisory for this length of coastline as we’ve done — I’m not sure when the last time was — but it really isn’t an everyday experience,” Snider said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the waves slamming ashore in Hawaii were just under the criteria for a more serious tsunami warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beaches and piers were closed across Southern California as a precaution. The National Weather Service tweeted there were “no significant concerns about inundation.” Strong rip currents were possible, however, and officials warned people to stay out of the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MarinSheriff/status/1482420800737013762\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On California’s central coast, the National Weather Service reported tsunami waves of up to 2.5 feet and flooding in beach parking lots at Port San Luis. About 200 miles down the coast, the waves were much smaller at Southern California’s Seal Beach, according to Michael Pless, the owner of M&M Surfing School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The waves are looking pretty flat,” Pless said. “We’re hoping they reopen the beach in a couple hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowds gathered at the Santa Cruz Harbor to watch the rising and falling water strain boat ties on docks. Law enforcement tried to clear people away when big surges started at around 7:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About an hour later, a surge went over the back lip of the harbor, filling a parking lot and low-lying streets and setting some cars afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, communications manager of Santa Cruz County, said officials have been inspecting for damage. Hoppin said that in previous years with tsunami advisories, millions of dollars in damage hit Santa Cruz’s harbor. In 2011, waves from Japan’s Sendai earthquake caused more than $20 million in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking people to stay out of the water, even surfing, which is a little bit difficult for some of our residents. But it’s the best and safest thing to do right now,” Hoppin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, residents aboard houseboats at the Berkeley Marina were ordered to evacuate on Saturday morning. Residents told KQED they were given more warning this weekend than during the last tsunami advisory in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like everybody has stepped up their tsunami preparedness,” Berkeley Marina resident Brian Cline said. “The police were down here making it very clear that everybody needs to get off their boats and head to shore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cline grabbed hard drives, a camera, extra clothes and cash, and he booked it. Another Berkeley Marina resident, Kat Schaaf, said she got the evacuation order at about 7 a.m., which was starkly different from when the 2011 tsunami waves caused by the Sendai earthquake in Japan rocked the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Sendai happened, nobody warned us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tonga, home to about 105,000 people, video posted to social media showed large waves washing ashore in coastal areas, swirling around homes, a church and other buildings. Satellite images showed a huge eruption, with a plume of ash, steam and gas rising like a mushroom above the blue Pacific waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Zealand’s military said it was monitoring the situation and remained on standby, ready to assist if asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no immediate reports of injuries or on the extent of the damage because all internet connectivity with Tonga was lost at about 6:40 p.m. local time, said Doug Madory, director of internet analysis for the network intelligence firm Kentik.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonga gets its internet via an undersea cable from Suva, Fiji, which presumably was damaged. Southern Cross Cable Network, the company that manages the connection, does not know yet “if the cable is cut or just suffering power loss,” Chief Technical Officer Dean Veverka said. He said he assumed the eruption was responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1482372078581940230\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tonga’s Islands Business news site reported that a convoy of police and military troops evacuated King Tupou VI from his palace near the shore. He was among the many residents who headed for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tonga Meteorological Service said a tsunami warning was declared for all of the archipelagoes, and data from the Pacific tsunami center said waves of 2.7 feet were detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Twitter user identified as Dr. Faka’iloatonga Taumoefolau posted video showing waves crashing ashore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can literally hear the volcano eruption, sounds pretty violent,” he wrote, adding in a later post: “Raining ash and tiny pebbles, darkness blanketing the sky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1482373568474222600\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like everything will stay below the warning level, but it’s difficult to predict because this is a volcanic eruption, and we’re set up to measure earthquake or seismic-driven sea waves,” said Snider, the tsunami warning coordinator in Palmer, Alaska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first waves to hit the continental United States measured about 1 foot in Nikolski and Adak, Alaska. A wave just shy of a foot tall was observed in Monterey, California, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said in a tweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents of American Samoa were alerted of a tsunami warning by local broadcasters as well as church bells that rang territory-wide Saturday. An outdoor siren warning system was out of service. Those living along the shoreline quickly moved to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As night fell, there were no reports of any damage, and the Hawaii-based tsunami center canceled the alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities in the nearby island nations of Fiji and Samoa also issued warnings, telling people to avoid the shoreline due to strong currents and dangerous waves. In New Zealand, officials warned of possible storm surges from the eruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New Zealand’s private forecaster, WeatherWatch, tweeted that people as far away as Southland, the country’s southernmost region, reported hearing sonic booms from the eruption. Others reported that many boats were damaged by a tsunami that hit a marina in Whangarei, in the Northland region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, the Matangi Tonga news site reported that scientists observed massive explosions, thunder and lightning near the volcano after it started erupting early Friday. Satellite images showed a 3-mile-wide plume rising into the air to about 12 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano is located about 40 miles north of the capital, Nuku’alofa. In late 2014 and early 2015, a series of eruptions in the area created a small new island and disrupted international air travel to the Pacific archipelago for several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/scsentinel/status/1482396189416845315\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is not a significant difference between volcanoes underwater and on land, and underwater volcanoes become bigger as they erupt, at some point usually breaching the surface, said Hans Schwaiger, a research geophysicist with the Alaska Volcano Observatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With underwater volcanoes, however, the water can add to the explosiveness of the eruption as it hits the lava, Schwaiger added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before an explosion, there is generally an increase in small local earthquakes at the volcano, but depending on how far it is from land, that may not be felt by residents along the shoreline, Schwaiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Tonga lost internet access for nearly two weeks when a fiber-optic cable was severed. The director of the local cable company said at the time that a large ship may have cut the cable by dragging an anchor. Until limited satellite access was restored, people couldn’t even make international calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern Cross Cable Network’s Veverka said limited satellite connections exist between Tonga and other parts of the world but he did not know whether they might be affected by power outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Raquel Maria Dillon, Sara Hossaini and Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Nick Perry, Jennifer McDermott in Providence, Rhode Island, Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, California, Frank Bajak in Boston, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo, Fili Sagapolutele in Pago Pago, American Samoa, Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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