It's always wise to be wary of how hurricanes can deviate from expected tracks, like Iniki in 1992. Normally they track east to west across the Pacific, but on September 11, Iniki turned north and slammed directly into Kauai as a cat 4 with bursts that supposedly over 225mph.
The movie Jurassic Park was wrapping up filming there and captures some of fury of the storm.
I had stayed on the south coast of Kauai at Waimea just a year earlier.