Hurricane Iniki made landfall on the island of Kauai as a Category 4 storm on September 11, 1992—the strongest storm ever to hit the island. In Hawaiian, Iniki means “a strong piercing wind” and it left a wake of destruction that had lasting effects on Hawaii’s people and its tourist-centered economy. 

In this episode, Kaleena and Brian discuss the impact it had and the renewed questions around Kauai’s dependency on tourism and sustainability to try to understand how an event like this can affect thinking around a community’s reliance on tourism versus other more stable industries.