Emergency workers rescued five people from a flooded house on Hawaii’s Big Island as Hurricane Lane dumped heavy rains on the island.
Emergency workers rescued five people from a flooded house on Hawaii’s Big Island as Hurricane Lane dumped heavy rains on the island.
Hawaii County Managing Director Wil Okabe says water gushed into the Hilo home Thursday after a nearby gulch overflowed.
He says they were not injured and were taken to a shelter.
Okabe says the county used a helicopter to rescue two campers who were trapped overnight in Waipio Valley.
The campers were not injured.
News reports on 23 August , 2018 have carried story saying that Hurricane Lane , presently a dangerous 3 category storm , is threatening a rare direct hit as Hawaii’s worst storm in a quarter century. Rain has already started while residents are preparing to face the storm as effectively as they can. Precisely relevant to the news report , readers may like to refresh themselves with this Vedic astrology writer’s alert for more care and appropriate strategy made last year on 11 October , 2017 through article – “ Astrological probable alerts for the United States in 2018” – published in monthly Webzine of Wisdom Magazine from the US at wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/4647/ on 1 December , 2017. The text related to the story here reads in the said article as :-
“ (4). July- August in 2018. These two months of year 2018 look to be calling for increased watch and care. It may be alright to take prior measures against likely earthquake , massive floods , hurricanes , storms and tornadoes in vulnerable States and regions. Some States which may keep a watch on any developing such scenario in one or more vulnerable States or regions like ………………..Hawaii Island.”
A separate recent alert made more than a fortnight past has said that time for more care and appropriate strategy could be from 10 August to 8 September , more so from 18 August to 26 August , in present year 2018.