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Hurricane Lane Dumps Nearly 30 Inches Of Rain On Hawaii As Citizens Hunker Down
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Hurricane Lane was downsized to a Category 3 storm Thursday night, but it has still managed to dump 30 inches of rain on Hawaii’s major islands.
The center of the hurricane is moving westward away from the islands, but the outer-edge of the storm is pounding the Hawaii with several inches of rain, according to a report Friday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Lane is the first major hurricane to hit Hawaii in more than 25 years.
Maximum sustained winds are near 120 mph, but some weakening is forecast from Friday through late Saturday. However, Hawaii is not out of the thicket yet. The storm has downgraded from a Category 4 to a Category 3 overnight.
Extreme flooding seen from above as parts of Hawaii’s Big Island report receiving over two feet of rain, with Hurricane Lane lurching northward. https://t.co/8ZpGqp28VM pic.twitter.com/Og8eh4HNbu
— ABC News (@ABC) August 24, 2018
The center of the storm is roughly 165 miles southwest of Kailua-Kona and 215 miles south of Honolulu. Hurricane-force winds extend 35 miles from the storm’s center, while wind gusts above 100 mph extend 125 miles from the center. The eye of the storm may get very close to or even pass over the islands.
Maximum wind gusts of up to 68 mph are reported to have hit Kohala Ranch on the Big Island. Meanwhile, people are doing the best they can to cope with the conditions.
Citizens, few of whom have ever witnessed the sheer force of a fast-moving cyclone, flocked to grocery stores days before Lane first made its presence felt.
“(I’m) filling up my bathtub with some water, hoping to board up my main windows in time,” a shopper on the Big Island told CNN Tuesday. Many others are leaving. The state’s 15 airports will remain open as long they don’t suffer any major infrastructure damage, the Hawaii Department of Transportation said in a statement.
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