County officials are urging the public to prepare for Hurricane Lane
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"Excessive rainfall associated with Lane could affect portions of the Hawaiian Islands from Wednesday into the weekend, leading to flash flooding and mud slides," the hurricane center said.
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"If it turns we're going to be in trouble," said
Down the road at
"We were here with Iniki and even Iwa. It was really bad. It was really windy, and the rain came down really hard and we actually left our house. We packed our cars and went to someplace that wasn't as bad," he said. "We always kind of keep a box around with water and canned goods just in case. If you do it too last-minute, it gets kind of crowded and you can't get anything. It's not like the mainland where you got a lot of resources. It's just an island."
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale for
>> Tropical Storm: winds 39-73 mph
>> Category 1: winds 74-95 mph
>> Category 2: winds 96-110 mph
>> Category 3: winds 111-129 mph
>> Category 4: winds 130-156 mph
>> Category 5: winds 157 mph and up
The city's
Lane is expected to generate large swells that will be felt across the state this week and will produce large and potentially damaging surf along exposed shorelines, according to the hurricane center.
Hurricane-force winds are forecast to extend outward up to 40 miles from the center and tropical storm-force winds to extend outward up to 125 miles.
Caldwell led a briefing on
"We went home today (to) turn on our ice machine, fill up all our fishing coolers with water and just wait," he said. "We have a lot of canned goods from the previous one that was coming close. I'm going to cover my boat and make sure the boat is OK. From the previous (storm) we went to
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"I don't think everybody's responding to it yet, but ... we've got water, coolers, buckets. These are the kind of items we try to stay in stock on, that way we're always prepared for the emergency for everybody," said
"It is hurricane season. As we've been stressing since the beginning of summer, make sure you've got your plans in place, make sure you've got all of your supplies -- they're saying up to 14 days now that you want supplies ready for you," she said. "Now is the time to start looking at those things, especially around your house. Your trees, start trimming those, anything that could potentially cause unwanted damage."
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