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 a calendar rhyme, not a survey on Friday and 81 percent on Monday's fold. Monday's restore percentage is Lowell. It is not 1992.

A calendar date is not an impact study. Iniki remains the rhyme the islands know. Lowell remains the storm that took the lights. HECO trucks on another page are mutual aid, not a 1992 survey.

Iniki killed six on Kauai in 1992 and rewrote the island's building codes; that is why anniversaries still lead newscasts. Lowell will get its own damage survey in time. Until then the rhyme and the recovery share the page without merging.

Building codes rewritten after Iniki are Lowell's first line of defense; every roof strapped to code is a 1992 lesson applied. Anniversary coverage doubles as a preparedness audit. Kauai knows exactly what a direct hit costs.

Audited anniversaries audit; Monday audits. Auditing is the update. Codes hold roofs.

Every roof strapped to code is a 1992 lesson applied. Anniversary coverage doubles as a preparedness audit. Kauai knows what a direct hit costs.

Friday's calendar still names Iniki; Monday's restore figure still names Lowell. Six dead in 1992 is history the island recites without confusing it for this week's outage. Eighty-one percent is a recovery count, not an anniversary. The two storms share a page and keep separate years.
Monday's 81 percent is Lowell, not Iniki. Kauai knows what a direct hit costs. Anniversary coverage doubles as a preparedness audit.

-- DARA OSEI, London