![]() Flook.The work should eventually appear in the extensive, free Papakilo Database from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. That includes the names of millworkers, whose diversity shaped the island’s identity: Native Hawaiian, Asian, European, and beyond.“If someone puts in their grandfather’s name, it will pull up any document that he’s referenced in,” says Ms. “If this fire had happened three years ago, we would’ve lost the information as well as the object.”Once finished, the digitized collection, spanning the 1820s through 1980s, will include missionary family letters, photos, and records from the sugar plantation era. But though their artifacts are gone, not all is lost.“The beauty is, COVID actually gave us time to digitize a large amount of our archives,” says Kimberly Flook, deputy executive director of the foundation.The pandemic “allowed us to take better care of our collections,” she adds. Those include the Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center that burned.Six museums run by the Lahaina Restoration Foundation also fell to the flames. As do donations and hope.Once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Lahaina has been home to culturally significant sites for Native Hawaiians. As stunned locals grieve, search and rescue continues. wildfire in more than a century has claimed at least 99 lives. Wildfire tore through the historic West Maui town a week ago today.The deadliest U.S. A complete list of self-reported closures can be found on the emergency closing center website.In recent days, loss has led the news in Lahaina, Hawaii. It seemed likely the condition of area roads, which the Illinois Department of Transportation website deemed either “covered with snow or ice” or “mostly covered with snow or ice,” played a role in the large number of schools that reverted to online-only instruction Tuesday. In some areas, road crews were working hard to keep up with the snowfall rate as the morning commute got underway. I wouldn’t be surprised if by the end of the day we hit 8 inches.” Throughout the rest of the day, we could reasonably expect another 2 to 4 inches on top of what’s already there. It still kind of remains to be seen how much more we’ll get. “The going forecast for greater Chicago was roughly 5 to 8 inches. “It’s very heavy snow,” Carlaw said about 4:30 a.m. and about an hour earlier, Lake Mills had 5.5 inches and Janesville had 5 inches. In Wisconsin, towns such as Lake Geneva were already more than half to the predicted 8 inches, with 5.9 inches recorded by 6 a.m., according to the weather service’s snowfall totals. As additional totals were recorded about 7 a.m., several municipalities to the north and northwest of Chicago caught up: Oak Park had 5 inches, Lake Zurich had 4.8 inches, Buffalo Grove recorded 4.6 inches, Schaumburg had 4.3 inches, Downers Grove noted 4 inches of snow and in Batavia, 3.9 inches had fallen as of 7 a.m., according to the weather service. ![]() In northern Illinois, DeKalb stood out as the location with the most snow earliest in the morning, with 4.9 inches before 2:30 a.m. ![]() And lakefront areas in Cook County and Lake County, Indiana, could see lake-effect snow through Wednesday, according to the weather service. In Chicago and areas north, Carlaw said he still expects at least 8 inches of snow by the time the system lets up Tuesday afternoon. was pared back to noon for a good portion of the area, he said. South of Chicago, a winter storm warning was canceled and a winter weather advisory that was to remain in effect until 5 p.m. for Chicago, northern Cook, Lake and DuPage counties and until noon much of far northern Illinois, west to Iowa. Winter storm warnings were still in effect until 5 p.m. That doesn’t mean the snowfall predictions were inaccurate, said Lee Carlaw, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Romeoville, the forecast office for most of northern Illinois and northwest Indiana. Tuesday, but for the most part, it didn’t happen that way. Forecasters had warned that most of the 5 to 8 inches expected in the Chicago area from a storm system that’s blanketed much of the Midwest would fall before 3 a.m. ![]()
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