{"id":537041,"date":"2026-03-21T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:40:11","slug":"hawaii-suffers-worst-flooding-in-20-years-with-more-rain-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/537041\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii suffers worst flooding in 20 years, with more rain expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, officials said on Friday, while warning that more rain was expected during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahu\u2019s North Shore, a community world renowned for its big-wave surfing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Raging waters lifted homes and cars and prompted evacuation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Authorities cautioned that a 120-year-old dam could fail.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Governor Josh Green said the cost of the storm could top US$1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, people\u2019s homes and a Maui hospital in Kula.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial view of homes surrounded by floodwater in Waialua, Hawaii, on Friday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/290c7372-5e2f-426f-a3c9-50c44adb0ad0_1a4c2dbb.jpg\" title=\"An aerial view of homes surrounded by floodwater in Waialua, Hawaii, on Friday. Photo: AP\"\/>An aerial view of homes surrounded by floodwater in Waialua, Hawaii, on Friday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is going to have a very serious consequence for us as a state,\u201d Green said at a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawaii suffered its worst flooding in more than 20 years as heavy rains fell on soil already saturated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,240758,240757,1023,11639,12851,240756,240762,240760,143618,25391,45744,24030,3,12852,240761,21,19,22,20,25,24,240759],"class_list":["post-537041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-dole-food-company","tag-federal-support","tag-flooding","tag-hawaii","tag-honolulu","tag-honolulu-fire-department","tag-honolulu-mayor-rick-blangiardi","tag-kona-lows","tag-kula","tag-maui","tag-national-guard","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news","tag-oahu","tag-our-lady-of-keaau","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wahiawa-dam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}