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Noted examples include the famous April Fools' Day tsunami of 1946 that killed 96 people in the historic town of Hilo alone and smashed Hilo's buildings into bits and pieces. In 1990 molten lava streamed into the southern coast of the Big Island for months on end and wiped out the historic fishing village and famous black sand beach at Kalapana. |
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In 2006, a powerful earthquake off the Kohala Coast triggered a landslide on the Big Island and knocked out power both locally and on the other major Hawaiian Islands. The big lesson that island residents have repeatedly learned is that life makes no guarantees. And yet, their strong innate spirit...the human spirit, somehow manages to live on. |
