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The wind has eased up - - - the eye?
I just stepped out for a look. A burglar alarm has been clanging almost all the time. The roof is blown off the Eleele Clinic. Everything is all over. It must look like I was blown over here. There's a clear swirl on the other side of the fallen tree and lumber around the lamppost and tree. Half the roof blew off the Ace Hardware building, too. It looks like a Newsweek or Time photo story of "Iniki" here.
Still no news. The burglar alarm is a constant clanging.
All the windows are out and the roof is peeled back or gone in the clinic.
Looking at all the devastation, I would say that Tangaroa and I rode out the first half of Iniki pretty well. Mahalo.
[In 1992, my camera was the same camera I used in Australia and South East Asia in 1978…a 2nd-hand Yashika 35mm. I had lost the lens cap several weeks before. I had photos from a Polihale party in the beginning of the 36-shot roll. During the eye of Iniki, I took photos of the lot, the damage to the Glen's Chevron station, the bending palm trees on the other side after the eye, then ended the roll where I spent the next week in Hanapepe Park behind the fire station. When I got the photos back from K-Mart's film developer, the Polihale party photos were there as were the photos in Hanapepe Park, but no hurricane photos in between. I looked at the negatives that were cut into strips that would fit into the envelope. Two of the strips were not exposed! The ones with the hurricane photos! I have a feeling that the developer thought that maybe the photos were valuable storm photos and decided to keep them, substituting unexposed negatives from some place else. It was probably assumed that I would think that in the excitement of the hurricane I forgot to take off the lens cap. Well, I didn't have a lens cap to forget about. For me, that's where that story ends.]
After the eye, the wind shifts direction. I moved to under the overhang by the Eleele Laundromat. Palm trees and other large branches are on the ground ten yards to my right as I face away from the Laundromat thru my rear window.
The gusts are coming.
The debris may slide toward me. I could be pushed against a pillar.
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