storm, many insurance companies left Hawaii. To combat this, State Governor John D. Waihee III enacted the Hurricane Relief Fund in 1993 to help unprotected Hawaii residents. The fund was never needed for another Hawaii hurricane, and it was stopped in 2000 when insurance companies returned to the island. It is thought that Hurricane Iniki blew apart many chicken coops, some possibly used to house fighting chickens; this caused a dramatic increase in the numbers of feral chickens roaming Kauai. The name Iniki was retired due to this storm's impacts, and was replaced with Iolana in the Central North Pacific tropical storm list. The passages of Iwa and Iniki within a ten year period increased public awareness of hurricanes in Hawaii. In popular culture The events and survivor accounts of the hurricane were featured in an episode of The Weather Channel docuseries Storm Stories titled "Iniki Jurassic", the 6th episode of the GRB Entertainment docuseries Earth's Fury (also known as Anatomy of Disaster outside the United States) titled "Hurricane Force", the 2008 4th episode of the Discovery Channel reality television series Destroyed in Seconds, the 1996 Fox television special When Disasters Strike, and the 1999 11th episode of the reality television series World's Most Amazing Videos. The archival footage of the hurricane is shown on the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow, in a scene that is set in New York City. See also Tropical cyclones in 1992 List of Category 4 Pacific hurricanes List of Hawai'i hurricanes List of Pacific hurricanes List of retired Pacific hurricane names Typhoon Higos (2002) – a storm that took a very similar trajectory to that of Iniki, albeit thousands of miles west of Hawaii, becoming one of the strongest typhoons to strike Tokyo Hurricane Lane (2018) – another powerful storm that threatened to strike Hawaii as a strong hurricane, but instead turned westward out to sea, bringing record amounts of rainfall to the islands Hurricane Walaka (2018) – took a similar track, making a 90° northward turn under the influence of an upper level trough, but stayed to the west of the main Hawaiian islands References External links Central Pacific Hurricane Center: Hurricane Iniki NHC 18-E archive 1992 Pacific hurricane season Category 4 Pacific hurricanes Hurricanes in Hawaii Retired Pacific hurricanes 1992 natural disasters in the United States 1992 in Hawaii