How ‘Jurassic Park’ was impacted by Hurricane Iniki 30 years ago in Hawaii

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Jurassic Park.“The night before, I was on the Valley House set thanking Steven Spielberg for filming here. Not knowing that he had not been told yet about the impending hurricane,” said Sue Kanoho, executive director of the Kauaʻi Visitors Bureau. “So I thanked him for filming here, and I said, ‘don’t worry, you guys will be gone before the hurricane hits.’ And he looked at me so strangely.”The Jurassic Park cast had already been on the island for an extended time filming scenes such as Dr.

Alan Grant discovering a dinosaur egg, the automated ride through the park in the distinguished SUVs and other clips where wide angles of untouched landscape where needed.The crew was in their final days of filming scenes when the Category 4 storm struck the island chain.“Ironically, I was stuck in the hotel that they were staying at, And the next morning I was looking at Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern on a balcony, and I said, ‘I’m so sorry,'” Kanoho recounted.Fortunately for the Jurassic Park staff and other tourists, resorts on the island were well constructed, but that was not the case for many parts of the fourth-largest island of the Hawaiian archipelago.“It was devastating.

There were places on the south shore that were inundated, houses were knocked off their foundations and vehicles were gone. It was the worst thing we’ve survived in my 35 years here,” Kanoho said.Hurricane Iniki caused more than $3 billion in damages – an amount that would be around $6 billion today due to inflation.Parts of the state had no electricity for weeks, and thousands of people were displaced from their homes.Similar to Hurricane Andrew, which struck Florida only a couple of weeks before, there are few signs still around today from the 1992 storm..