Long after the attacks of last year, I realized that September 11 was the date of an entirely different sort of horror nine years earlier. It was on that date in 1992 that a Category 4 hurricane hit the island of Kaua'i, brushing the leeward coast of O'ahu. It took forty minutes to pass over the island, directly or indirectly killed seven people, did several billion dollars in property damage, and destroyed the island's economy for nearly half a decade. I was here at the time, and I remember the day very well.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 22, 2002 05:02 PMIt was, as I recall upgraded to a category 5. I remember it too -- I was on Kaua'i, huddled in the ground level of a neighbor's house, as the second story ripped off and blew down the street.
Civil Defense sirens STILL make me jump out of my skin. Eeek.
Posted by: Jen at September 23, 2002 12:26 AM