Hawaii Insurance

Creeping slowly through her bedroom devastated today, children Shea, survivors of Hurricane Iniki, arrived in a familiar environment in an unusual: her mother by the hand-lettered Rules, buried under the rubble of their ceiling collapsed.

They read aloud, as if the discovery of evidence of a lost time:

“Every morning, blankets fold without words, and you wash your own courts.

“5:00 cook rice. Small house at 5:00. Big Ones 6:00 at home.

“If this is not done the work at home, does not ask to sleep over at a friend at home on Saturday.”

Since the storm tore the roof and two walls of their wooden house green baufällige last Friday, Hab and their dispersal kilometres on the landscape, the Shea family slept on the floor of a high school classroom, where, instead rules of procedure, a Bulletin - Note board announces: “Our Changing World.” Toll emotional and physical

Like most of 8000 people made homeless by the storm, their new routine to a shelter the Red Cross includes food and sheets daily visits to their devastated country, trying for both emotional they take although the hard work of rescuers of their property.

“The first time I saw my house I was sick,” said the father, Maynard Shea, a keeper 36 years. “This is something exhausting. The spirit really breaks. I fell on the mattress, here and not sleeping. ”

Mr. Shea said he lived in the house since he was 5 years. Last Friday, the eye of Hurricane Iniki in Hawaii and screamed on the coast south of his house, 25 km south-west of the capital, Lihue. “Our address can be used, but the 4781 numbers blew away,” he said.

Since the storm, Mr. Shea, Marla his wife and seven children have one big heap before denying their homes and their belongings saved little stuck in a van parked conservation.

“I want the kind of storm in the distance, everything was cleared, it was all in the river,” said Shea. “But it was only half the job and left the other half for me.

Clean, only the first phase difficult for the thousands of victims of the hurricane, which caused a damage estimate of $ 1 billion on this tropical island of 55000 people.

With winds of 160 mph on the landscape full - as a supernatural hand, Mr. Shea’s image - devastated farmland and tourist hotels, which constitutes the basis of the island’s economy. There is an uncertain future

Mr. Shea was born into a family of workers and Hotel Tour driver and his wife from a family of planting sugar cane workers. The future for all of them is now uncertain.

Asked how long it would take for the economy of the island on foot, Kauai’s Mayor, JoAnn Yuki Murakami, expressed his fingers against their temple to fatigue and said: “I do not think we know that c ‘is now. It is a time to rest. ”

She said the island, always welcoming abroad, we must now largess of the state. House without insurance

Mr. Shea, he said only hope to avoid homeless the government would be ready or scholarships. “Nobody wanted this House, he is too old,” he said.

His father, Francis Furtado, said the devastation at risk his job as a crane operator on a sugar refinery.

“Sugar has been slowly declining, and they tried to fill the planting of coffee and macadamianuts,” said Furtado, 57

“But now, everything is affected. Papayas are extinct,” he said. “Bananas are decimated. We already pineapple. With sugar, it is pow! And if tourists stop coming, we are ready. We have, for the continent.