We have a commentary in today’s Honolulu Advertiser about emergency response lessons that were lost in the quarter century since our first “modern” hurricane.
CHORE readers are invited to leave comments below with your own remembrances of Hurricane Iwa and what else you think our current crop of crisis communicators should know about emergency response.
CHORE was launched in 2006 after an inadequate response to an earthquake emergency in Hawaii. That event revealed an opening for average citizens to contribute experience-based suggestions to improve crisis communications. The many deaths recorded after California's wildfires in 2017-18, the wildfire destruction of Lahaina, Maui in 2023, and the tragic Texas floods in 2025 also revealed gaps in officials' ability to communicate effectively. Visitors are invited to comment.
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