Reverberations of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, which killed at least 129 and wounded 352, continued to be felt today in Hawaii.

Hawaii comedian and radio show host Lanai Tabura, the Lanai half of Lanai and Augie T, may have literally dodged a bullet.

He and a tour group he led from Hawaii were on the outskirts of Paris just before the attacks, but had returned to their ship on the Rhine River.

"My phone was filled with text and emails and social media messages," from friends and family at home, Tabura said in an email to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser today. "Because I host these trips, I always have my international phone on."

"We just missed everything and were headed toward Switzerland," he said. "Most of the group was already in bed. I just turned on the TV in my room and was watching it all unfold live. Scary stuff!"

French officials said three teams of Islamic State attackers carried out the attacks, which included a concert hall, a soccer stadium and restaurants.

He said the group was also concerned with border patrol, but the areas where they were were very lax, and no security at border entrances.

Tabura was headed home today.

"This is scary stuff what the world has come to," he wrote. "It can happen anywhere at anytime, and I am happy we were leaving the country as it all unfolded."

Tabura is the owner of Lanai’s Travel Club, which takes people all over the world on food tours and adventures. The tour he was taking people on was along the Rhine, which borders France and Germany.

Many living in Hawaii maintain French connections.

Paris native Jerome Coudrier, who has lived in Hawaii since moving here in 1994 after attending college in Boston, said his parents were safe, living well north of Paris in Normandy, but he was concerned because "all my childhood friends live in Paris."

They have kept in touch over the years through Facebook, and when the news broke he quickly went to the social media site.

"Facebook had an app and they could check in and say, ‘We’re OK,’" he said. "At least the people we know are A-OK," said Coudrier, a Waimanalo resident.

He has been touched by the support shown for the Parisians even in the United States.

"You see everybody with their Facebook photos overlapped with the French flag, so that’s nice," he said.

The situation in France is sad, Coudrier lamented.

"Lucky we live Hawaii, that’s for sure," he said.

Kailua resident Lee Ellis said she and her husband returned Oct. 31 from Paris, the last stop in a three-week long European trip, which they called a delayed honeymoon.

"It’s almost pretty scary," she said. "People knew we were on vacation, and I was getting texts and phone calls asking, ‘You’re back in the U.S. right? You’re alright?"

They returned Oct. 31 and worried about longtime friend Virginie, who lives in Paris but whom they did not get to visit on their trip.

"I was very worried, especially when I had texted her, ‘Where do you live exactly?’" Ellis said.

The 11th arrondissement, she replied.

That was where at least 100 people were killed at a rock concert at the Bataclan music hall.

Ellis and her husband stayed in a vacation rental "a stone’s throw away from the Eiffel Tower, so we were that close to a major touristy place if they wanted to make a bold statement."

"We were thinking that could have been us," she said.

Verizon is supporting its customers by offering free calling from the United States to France throughout the weekend to help customers connect with family and friends.