Hālana ka Manaʻo

We are excited to share with you all of the final resources we have assembled since our visits to Kauaʻi, our project, Hālana ka Manaʻo Reflections, from the 2018 Kauai Floods.  It has taken over two and a half years since we began to work on documenting lessons from the floods, to finish this work. Nearly 80 community members took time to share their manaʻo. Many of the resources below, created through this project, have already been shared in presentations and emails, except for the report, which was just completed.  Mahalo to Hawaiʻi Community Foundation - Kauaʻi Flood Relief and Recovery Fund for helping to support this effort.  

Students have created the following five products: 

1. Video - 10 min. YouTube video, Hālana ka Manaʻo shares flood experiences, video and photos collected across Kauaʻi.
2. Report - This written report is full of quotes and stories from the floods in your own words, along with emerging lessons.
3. Story maps - These Arc GIS story maps, have pages that cover the floods by ahupuaʻa impacted around the island of Kauaʻi, as well as a page for each of the key themes and lessons which emerged.
4. Waiʻaleʻale - This piece published in 2020 in The Value of Hawaiʻi III, Hulihia, was written as a poem for the 2020 Kauaʻi Community College commencement exercises.
5. Recommendations list - This two page recommendations list summarizes findings from this research with on the ground actions and policy implications for our island.

We hope this work will help Kauaʻi and other places to learn and build resilience for the future, and help future generations to understand this pivotal event for our island.  We hope you might take time to watch the video, or view the story maps with your ʻohana, including keiki.  It has been a great honor to work with so many people from the Kauaʻi community who shared so generously, and to transcribe and analyze all of your manaʻo to capture lessons for future generations.