Lala missed landfall. The damage did not.
Hurricane Lala's center passed south of the Big Island without landfall and weakened to a tropical storm. Across X, the near-miss headline sits beside severe flooding footage, moving outage totals and early damage counts. The two are not contradictory.
- Observed threads
- 13
- Source clusters
- 5
- Observed
- Updated
Offshore, not harmless
Lala's eyewall and rain bands still brought hurricane-force gusts and nearly three feet of rain in places.
Outage snapshot
More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power at the peak; fewer than 60,000 remained out by Sunday morning. Viral totals can describe different moments.
Damage count
Floods swept homes from their foundations and damaged roads and bridges. Exact totals remain assessments, not a settled statewide inventory.
Recovery hazards
Airports and harbors are open, while highway repairs continue. A statewide brown-water advisory warns that runoff may carry sewage, bacteria and chemicals.