{"id":97984,"date":"2016-06-06T22:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T22:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/mhalachai-jenniferrpovey-deadmomjokes-a-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T22:39:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T22:39:57","slug":"mhalachai-jenniferrpovey-deadmomjokes-a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/06\/mhalachai-jenniferrpovey-deadmomjokes-a-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

mhalachai<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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jenniferrpovey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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deadmomjokes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A story for all you Jurassic Park loving peeps out there. I learned about
\nthis in my Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness course that I
\njust started.
In 1992, Jurassic Park was finishing filming on the
\nisland of Kaua’i in Hawai’i. The final day was scheduled for September
\n11. However, brewing out in the Pacific and headed straight for Hawai’i
\nwas Category 4 Hurricane Iniki. The crew had been keeping an eye on it,
\nbut it was expected that Iniki would turn its course slightly. The
\nafternoon of September 10, however they were informed that it was going
\nto make landfall in a few hours, impacting Kaua’i with the main brunt of
\n it. The crew of hundreds was ordered into the basement of the hotel
\nthey were staying in, and they waited it out that night. (Rather
\nhilariously, Richard Attenborough slept through the whole ordeal where
\nothers were awake, huddled together and fearing for their lives. When
\nSpielberg asked him about it, he answered, \u201cMy dear boy, I survived the
\nblitz!\u201d I guess after that, a little hurricane is just pleasant white
\nnoise.)
The next day, after the storm had passed, the whole island
\nwas in shambles. Infrastructure was totally destroyed, electricity was
\nentirely knocked out, and radio service was down. The crew had escaped
\nharm, luckily, though the sets were totally destroyed. That\u2019s actually
\nwhy we don\u2019t see any of Ray Arnold\u2019s journey to the power shed, because
\nthat set was ruined during the storm. Anyway, I digress.
The crew
\ncomes out of their basement shelter to find total devastation and a city
\n in disarray. Even though help would be arriving soon, since the
\nNational Weather Service had been monitoring the storm and knew the
\nisland was hit, there would be no way for the relief efforts to begin
\nwith the infrastructure so heavily damaged. Airstrips and landing pads
\nhad also been demolished in the storm, and hospitals were without power.
\n There was also no (rather, just severely limited) way to move the
\ndebris that was keeping citizens from aid.
EXCEPT a gigantic, highly
\n skilled and intelligent film crew with lots of industrial equipment and
\n literally nothing better to do.
Within hours of the storm\u2019s
\npassing, the film crew personnel had dug out their bulldozers and
\ncranes, jury rigged up whatever else they needed from the animatronics,
\nand began blazing a path through the wreckage to the air strip where
\nthey cleared the whole landing site, then began working on major city
\nstreets. They also used their set generators to help restore power to
\ncritical city functions, and their satellite phones to call for extra
\nassistance from the mainland (after they had evacuated their cast, of
\ncourse).
Even though the ships and helicopters arrived to take the
\ncrew home that day, as planned, many (if not most) of the crew stayed on
\n Kaua’i to assist in cleanup and relief efforts.
It\u2019s estimated by
\nEmergency Management officials and experts that if the crew had not been
\n there, the recovery efforts would have been delayed by as much as 3
\nweeks, as little as 3 days, and several hundred people would have died
\nin the aftermath of Hurricane Iniki.<\/p>\n

Hollywood gets a bad rep for being selfish, but they can save lives and I think that\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Crew guys are awesome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

the folks in a tv\/movie crew are probably the most creative, innovative and resourceful people you\u2019ll find – they can make miracles happen with a roll of duct tape, a bit of wire, and a 9-volt battery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

mhalachai: jenniferrpovey: deadmomjokes: A story for all you Jurassic Park loving peeps out there. I learned about this in my Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness course that I just started. In 1992, Jurassic Park was finishing filming on the island of Kaua’i in Hawai’i. The final day was scheduled for September 11. However, brewing out … <\/p>\n

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