{"id":493783,"date":"2026-03-25T03:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493783\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:53:21","slug":"hawaii-storms-have-caused-1bn-in-damage-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493783\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii storms have caused $1bn in damage, governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials have said the flooding in the state is the worst since 2004. <\/p>\n

On Sunday morning local time, officials began to stand down some evacuation and flash flood warnings on Oahu, but other parts of the state remained under threat.<\/p>\n

Part of the Kuihelani Highway on Maui was temporarily closed overnight due to “fast moving water”, the Hawaii Department of Transportation posted on X, but had reopened by Sunday. <\/p>\n

Other roadways on the island experienced rockfalls on Saturday, the Hawaii DOT posted.<\/p>\n

Green said the full scope of the damages have yet to be assessed and warned residents to continue to be careful on the roads. <\/p>\n

“There’s still major flooding all over the place, do not drive through deep water,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said Maui county is expecting eight to 10in of rain over the next couple of days. He also cautioned people against boating between islands as the storm rolls through.<\/p>\n

The Hawaii National Guard remains stationed at the 120-year-old Wahiawa dam to monitor the water levels after officials feared it could spill over and ordered nearby residents to evacuate. Water levels at the dam stabilised over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Mikey, a resident of the Oahu town of Wahiawa, told Hawaii News Now , external<\/a>that floodwaters woke him and his wife up after midnight on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“About 12:30 I woke up and the floor was wet, and when I opened the bedroom door water came rushing in,” he said.<\/p>\n

The water “broke down the fence and broke down the door and came into our house. We were up to here in water,” he said, gesturing towards his stomach.<\/p>\n

After the sun came up, “we watched the water recede little by little” before the fire department arrived, Mikey said.<\/p>\n

“We’ve lost everything,” Mikey said. “Seriously, the water was up to my chest.”<\/p>\n

Jason Momoa, the Game of Thrones and Aquaman actor, said that his family had to evacuate their home on the North Shore of Oahu due to the storm.<\/p>\n

“We’re safe for now but there’s a lot of people who weren’t, so sending all of our love,” Momoa posted on Instagram Stories, Variety reported. “The conditions on the North Shore are gnarly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have said the flooding in the state is the worst since 2004. On Sunday morning local time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}