There's one North Texas city in particular with a large Tongan community, and they're understandably on edge following the devastating volcano eruption there.
Ofa Faiva-Siale works for the City of Euless; and like many others in the city, she's originally from the Polynesian island nation of more than 100,000 people.
Faiva-Siale has family back in Tonga and says she has not made contact with them.
"The only bits and pieces that's coming out from Tonga is that there's been two to three casualties," Faiva-Siale says. "But as far as our families, no one here has any contacts so far."
Since the eruption, the country is essentially now cut off from the rest of the world.
"The one fiber optic cable that connects Tonga to the rest of the world was damaged," says Faiva-Siale. "So families are not able to communicate with their family members back home at this point in time."
Faiva-Siale says most people in Tonga are on social media, so she and her fellow Tongans in Euless are waiting with baited breath on word from their loved ones that they're safe.
"Everybody's writing to their families, tagging their families to let us know as soon as internet connection is connected over there, they're going to have to be the ones to connect with us when they are able to communicate with us," Faiva-Siale says.
As for relief efforts, Faiva-Siale says she and her fellow Tongans urge you to make monetary donations.
"Right now, we're more looking at helping maybe donating and offering to donate to Red Cross New Zealand (and) Australia Tsunami Relief to Tonga," says Faiva-Siale, "because they are the immediate people that will be able to immediately impact the work that needs to be done in Tonga."
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