Overview
- Flood watches that remained in effect Monday for the Big Island, with an advisory on Maui, kept crews on rescue and cleanup duty as residents returned to neighborhoods coated in thick red mud.
- Oahu’s North Shore, which saw evacuation orders for about 5,500 people on Saturday due to rising water at the 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam, now faces a boil-water notice and spotty power after warnings were lifted.
- More than 230 people have been rescued since Friday, including rooftop and beach extractions by Coast Guard and Navy aircrews on Oahu that pulled seven people and a dog to safety.
- Oahu’s emergency office has logged over 400 homes damaged or destroyed, and Gov. Josh Green said losses to roads, schools, airports, homes and a Maui hospital could exceed $1 billion.
- Back-to-back Kona low storms — a winter system that funnels deep tropical moisture — dumped 20 to 40 inches in mountain areas and drove Kahului near 20 inches for the month, in what officials call the state’s worst flooding in about two decades.