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Kauai Marks Iniki Thirty-Four Years Later

TL;DR

Hawaii News Now files Iniki's 34th anniversary beside Lowell; a calendar rhyme is not an impact survey.

MSM Perspective

HNN filed a rhyme. Friday's 73 percent is Lowell, not 1992.

X Perspective

Island feeds treat a calendar date as a new landfall.

Kauai marked Hurricane Iniki's 34th anniversary on Friday while restoring after Lowell. [1] Hawaii News Now filed the calendar beside the recovery. [1] This paper printed seventy-three percent and more than 9,000 still dark. A calendar date is not an impact study. Print the rhyme. Do not print a new storm.

Lowell is not Iniki. Friday's 73 percent is Lowell's utility file, not 1992. Do not stitch surge in Poipu to Iniki's landfall as a second storm. Print Friday's calendar. Leave a later percentage to the edition that owns a later percentage.

A 34th anniversary remains a calendar rhyme on this desk. Friday recap that treats Iniki as Lowell is the error this page exists to block.

Saturday can recap; Friday prints the rhyme.
-- DARA OSEI, London

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