Kevin Coskren's most memorable moment from 2023

Take a look back at some of the most memorable weather moments from the year with AccuWeather's team of meteorologists.

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00:00 Looking back at 2023, the one thing that stands out to me is the Hawaii wildfires in Maui.

00:06 I mean, we started looking at this story from a meteorological perspective.

00:10 We knew that the winds were going to be strong.

00:12 But boy, did we not see this one coming.

00:16 The stories that came out of this island,

00:19 harrowing stories of people losing their homes, businesses, their families.

00:24 And there goes the house I lived in.

00:26 Do we have any idea how many people are unaccounted for?

00:29 There are at least several hundred people believed to be missing.

00:33 We started interviewing people from CNN, people from the Red Cross,

00:37 and they were getting kind of in deep to the stories of what was happening to the people.

00:42 And after doing that a few times, I started to think,

00:44 "Gosh, how would you be one of those people from the Red Cross that goes out to a situation where there's so much horror?"

00:51 People have lost everything, including family members.

00:54 So I was interviewing a Red Cross official, and I asked him that question.

00:58 You know, "How do you do it?"

00:59 And he said, "Look, I just put myself in their position."

01:02 And I think because we're humanitarians, we realize that it could be us.

01:07 And I thought, "You know what? That really makes sense.

01:11 This Red Cross official, he's pretty much going by the golden rule.

01:14 He's treating them the way he would want to be treated, and I think that's what we should all do."

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