Posted on 08/16/2026 1:36:37 PM PDT by Libloather
At least one person was killed in a storm-related car crash on Hawaii’s Big Island as Hurricane Lala struck late Saturday night.
Gov. Josh Green confirmed the death, along with 19 roofs ripped off buildings after what he described as an “enormous storm.”
Powerful waves pounded the Big Island’s coast as Lala slowly passed by. Howling winds whipped palm trees and waterways swelled with fast-moving runoff from relentless rain that blew nearly sideways.
Lala was downgraded to a tropical storm as of Sunday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center.
More than 130,000 households were without power Sunday morning across Hawaii’s three largest islands, according to the utility tracker poweroutage.us. At least three hospitals were operating on generator power, Green said.
A search-and-rescue mission including Civil Defense, the National Guard and Coast Guard was launched after flash floods apparently swept several occupied homes off their foundations in the coastal communities of Na’alehu and Wai’ohinu, near the island’s southern tip, Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda said early Sunday.
“What makes this very challenging is that there’s rushing water, there’s debris, and there’s boulders on the road and it’s dark,” Alameda said.
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I do NOT want to live where there are a ZILLION bugs who want to suck my blood supply dry.
Also, the locals and natives always got the best deals on everthing...it seemed.
My grandparents lived in Phoenix and we visited them every two years. They DID have WONderful fruit trees on their one acre of land and that was VERY nice but...the blood-sucking bugs were NOT my cup of tea. Besides wearing insect repellent all the time wasn't nice either.
When we lived in Saudi Arabia the Saudis SPRAYED like there was no tomorrow. No bugs...none. Just imagine what it was like before they became one one the world's wealthiest countries. Going from one of the world's POOREST to one of the world's wealthiest in one generation.
I can't imagine what it was like to live there BEFORE. Ugh. Imagine the heat with NO A/C.
NOW they keep their offices at 60 degrees. Brrr. I had to wear a thick Irish sweater when I worked.
Then home. We kept our home there at 70 degrees. AC was free. Duh.
When they were their normal dirt poor people, before all the petroleum and natural gas boon, the Saudis used to sleep all day in their tents and then get up and go out at sunset.
The bugs aren’t too bad on big island. Just let the cane spiders catch ‘em...
Hawaii waterfall’s dramatic boom captured in wild before and after footage following hurricane
Of course they aren't too bad since they PROBABLY don't bite you. However, I take after my father and I am a mosquito magnet.
As for spiders....UGH, double UGH and triple UGH!
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