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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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Toilet paper HAS to be at a premium. Makes me glad I don't live there. I used to visit there every year...but time goes by and I LIKE where and how I live now.
It wasn’t too bad for an enlisted guy. We lived in the barracks, and had a chow hall to eat in, a PX and Commissary to shop at. Even gasoline was at stateside prices iirc. So we were insulated from the sticker shock of Hawaiian Punch prices on everything.
We weren’t insulated from Hurricane Iniki however. At one point somebody decided we could get all our helicopters at Schofield in our Hangar. Folding blades back, and tail booms. I was skeptical, but we did it. There wasn’t any room to walk but it got done. Huge pain in the ass.
At one point, everything was done, nothing more to prepare. The sky turned ominous and they cut everyone loose, the married guys back home to their families. Single guys just hung out in the barracks and waited for everything to roll in. Kind of sobering.
I always wanted to spend a year there. Kaiser Permanente. Problem is it’s changed. Time to, as I wrote before, return to the monarchy. Watch the left have a cow.
Sittin’ here in La-La, waitin’ for my Ya Ya.
Typhoon Tinky-Winky will be even worse.
Spell checker strikes again.
Coconuts are important.
Everything else has to be imported.
I’m sure Obamas little pad is safe and sound though
I have spent a lot of time there on the four principal islands.
Had a buddy that lived directly on the ocean at the end of Waikiki. He had a thing for Thai women and would spend weeks if not months there.
While away he’d offer me the use of the condo and keys to the cars. Great years.
Spent 4 months there helping a gal pal get settled in. She was an ATC and transferred to Honolulu tower. Another interesting experience but decided I really didn’t want to live there.
Been there many other times for different reasons. Love to visit but don’t think I could live there even if it was affordable.
It’s been awhile, but even back then the “locals” were getting hostile even to long time residents.
Coconuts are NOT so important. Lol. They are tasty but so are about 10,000 other foodstuffs.
There was a song about them: COCO-LOCO, a little crazeeee.
“Love to visit but don’t think I could live there even if it was affordable.”
Lived here 20 years and still ambivalent about it. Wife loves it.
Got a little place in Arizona where I spend a good chunk of the year.
Helps make the irritating about Hawaii more tolerable.
Obama’s pad is on Oahu, which is not as terribly exposed as is SW “Hawaii County”.
(Each individual island is a County).
It was quite a shock to the system, actually. I ETS’d from there in January, and landed in Seattle, WA. Temperature was a rainy 40 deg. F., and it felt really rude. Then I drove cross country across Washington state, Idaho, Montana, etc, and really froze my ass off. I had acclimatized to 70 deg. year round weather I guess.
“really froze my ass off.”
Did that to me coming from SE Asia, on Treasure Island in the middle of SF bay.
Did not know about Mark Twain’s comment about SF but it rang true when I read it.
I think it does something to the marrow in our bones or something. Not sure. I stayed at some friends in Montana, and they had this big console natural gas heater thing in their living room. I sort of laid across that, and felt much better. LOL
Coconuts are important.
Everything else has to be imported.
Are you suggestin’ that coconuts migrate?
Yawn....
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