Every year we have to come out waving the flag. I believe very few people have a hurricane kit ready for this year. And, said Reed, very few people on Oahu have ever felt the brunt of a major category 3 or 4 hurricane. Hannah Merit, who rents an old home near Kekaha, Kauai, has. And she plans to be ready should it happen again.
Merit prepares now by storing sheets of plywood under the house.
They're cut to fit her windows, so she can quickly nail them up if the island goes on a hurricane alert. That won't happen the next time, hopefully. And I'd bring my screens in too. You don't think about that until they get all ripped up by debris and there's no way to stop the mosquitoes from pouring in. Claudia Woolson-Cohn wasn't on Kauai when Iniki hit.