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Hurricane Iwa, taken from the Hawaiian language name for the frigatebird (ʻiwa, lit. "Thief"), was at the time the costliest hurricane to affect the state of Hawaiʻi . Iwa was the twenty-third tropical storm and the twelfth and final hurricane of the 1982 Pacific hurricane season .
Iwa was the very last hurricane of the 1982 season, forming in November and causing $312 million in damage, which would convert to $1 billion in damage when adjusted for inflation to 2024.
Hawaii’s Hurricane Iwa in 1982 A rare hurricane for that late in the season, Category 1 Iwa impacted the Hawaiian islands Nov. 23, 1982, two days before Thanksgiving.
Hurricane Iniki was the most powerful hurricane to strike the Hawaiian Islands. A Hawaiian hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms in the Pacific Ocean and affects the Hawaiian Islands . Hawaii lies in the central Pacific, where about four or five tropical cyclones appear each year, although as many as fifteen have occurred, such as in the ...
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...
The hurricane, which passed within 25 miles of the island of Kauai, was the first significant hurricane to hit the Hawaiian islands since it became a state in 1959. Hurricane Iwa
This is a list of notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies.
Jan Pappas and Ronald Yasuda hired a contractor to fasten the roof of their 1960s-era home to their walls with metal plates and nails so high winds of a potential hurricane wouldn't blow it away.