![]() The main town of Hilo, with 43,000 people, was flooded Friday with waist-high water.Īs flooding hit the Big Island, winds fanned brush fires that had broken out in dry areas of Maui and Oahu. The outer bands of the hurricane dumped as much as 45 inches of rain on the mostly rural Big Island, the Weather Service said. By Saturday, the National Weather Service said Lane had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph. Lane first approached the islands earlier this week as a Category 5 hurricane, meaning it was likely to cause catastrophic damage with winds of 157 mph or above.īut upper-level winds known as shear swiftly tore the storm apart. And while the number was down from earlier reports, officials said the figure shows a lot of people are still displaced. The American Red Cross said more than 1,100 people were staying in shelters, mostly in Oahu. On Saturday, winds on Maui were blowing about 11 mph and the storm was expected to turn west, which would lessen the threat to the islands. No storm-related deaths have been reported. Long said the biggest impact has been on transportation due to debris in roadways, downed power lines and damage to infrastructure, mostly on the Big Island. Both islands have reported flooding and landslides. Maui has seen about 12 inches of rain and wind gusts up to 50 mph in the past 24 hours. ![]() The storm has dumped nearly four feet of rain in some areas of the Big Island. “Tropical storms can be very dangerous and Hawaii is not in the clear.” ![]() “Don’t let your guard down,” Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said during a telephone briefing in Washington. HONOLULU - Strong winds have died down, but officials warned Saturday that torrential rains still remained a big threat to Hawaii after once-powerful Hurricane Lane was downgraded to a tropical storm.įorecasters said as much as 10 more inches of rain could fall on Oahu and Maui as the storm churned about 110 miles south of Honolulu, moving north at 3 mph.
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