Hawaii is in for a rough hurricane season!

[Climber]

They've already been hit by 2 storms, now there are 2 more heading roughly in their direction.

I visited Kauai in the early 90's after a hurricane had come through. All of the coral had been decimated, nothing like it had been before the storm hit it.

 

[Brokenlink]

I have a friend who lives in Kauai. She said this last hurricane was really bad and while her house was fine, a lot of her friend's houses lost roofs etc.

 

[2legs2wheels]

I routinely interact with folks in Hawaii. The last one seems to be pretty bad.

 

[PorradaVFR]

I’ve never been to Hawaii....how common are hurricanes there? As a former South Floridian I thought the Pacific was comparatively chill in that regard.

 

[2legs2wheels]

Governor announced closing of entire islands during the last storm couple of weeks ago, so I guess pretty bad!

 

[stratslingr77]

I’ve never been to Hawaii....how common are hurricanes there? As a former South Floridian I thought the Pacific was comparatively chill in that regard.

Most of them miss the islands altogether. Some hit the big island. The really bad ones dogleg up from the south like Lowell just did.

 

[Wolf]

Will be going for my first time in early November.
Going to Maui.

 

[Ridley]

We have a family house on Kauai. No damage from the last storm but it made a mess of the yard and neighborhood.

 

[ScottRNelson]

I’ve never been to Hawaii....how common are hurricanes there? As a former South Floridian I thought the Pacific was comparatively chill in that regard.

The previous serious hurricane on Kauai was Hurricane Iniki in 1992. The museum at the top of Waimea Canyon used to have a whole room with an exhibit about it. I always found that very interesting. Unfortunately that exhibit is now gone as of May when I was there last. There were also a few resort properties that got wrecked in that storm that were still fenced off and not repaired decades later.

Looks like the Hawaiian Islands are back to dealing with hurricanes again.

 

[PorradaVFR]

Will be going for my first time in early November.
Going to Maui.

That’s the gag...surprising my wife in Nov with a trip there as well and simply didn’t consider storms hitting.

 

[auntiebling]

Will be going for my first time in early November.
Going to Maui.

That’s the gag...surprising my wife in Nov with a trip there as well and simply didn’t consider storms hitting.

that makes 3 of us. my first visit too and it didn't cross our minds to get the travel insurance

 

[PorradaVFR]

that makes 3 of us. my first visit too and it didn't cross our minds to get the travel insurance

I actually considered it and was like...”nahh, total rip off, nobody ever uses that nonsense!”

 

[auntiebling]

I actually considered it and was like...”nahh, total rip off, nobody ever uses that nonsense!”

Same
We could still get it, which would cover the upcoming storms but we are banking on the resort making it good enough in time and if it's a really bad storm the hotel will cancel it. We are in poipu and the hotel pool got filled with sand
They need the business, we need the adventure. It'll be fine?!

 

[Sharxfan]

The Pacific is popping this year due to the uber strong El Nino event happening. Hawaii tends to normally just get very glancing blows from hurricanes so this year is an anomaly as they have gotten pretty bad hits and it looks like some current storms are tracking to hit it again this year. It truly is a bad year for Hawaii but for us in the south and east coasts its been a super quiet year for storms and still don't have a predicted hurricane forming as of yet which is super odd as the latest Hurricane forming so far was yesterday so this year will break that trend. I am really hoping this doesn't mean next year will be infinitely worse than normal so fingers crossed.

 

[byke]

Hawaii seems to be in a perpetual state of not wanting mainlanders to visit while simultaneously wanting mainlander funding to clean up things that apparently the highest overall tax rate isn't covering.

 

[CDONA]

This El Niño has been a shot of green here in Verde Valley, more than I've seen.
It may rain all day today.

 

[Eldritch]

They've already been hit by 2 storms, now there are 2 more heading roughly in their direction.

I visited Kauai in the early 90's after a hurricane had come through. All of the coral had been decimated, nothing like it had been before the storm hit it.

We have a lot of buildings in HI on 3 islands. It isn't great.