Hurricane Lala
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Sep 22, 2026
Flora LichtmanHOST
The Hawaiian Islands tend to be insulated from the worst effects from hurricanes, but this summer told a different story.
Flora LichtmanHOST
In mid-August, Hurricane Lala struck the Big Island, damaging homes and roads, creating flooding and power outages.
Flora LichtmanHOST
Then a few weeks later, Hurricane Lowell hit the islands of Niihau and Kauai, leaving more destruction in its wake.
Flora LichtmanHOST
So what do scientists make of this dramatic storm season for the Hawaiian Islands? Joining me now is Dr.
Chelsea DavisCORRESPONDENT
For the Oberg family here in Haiku, it was a double whammy.
Chelsea DavisCORRESPONDENT
Hurricane Lala flooded their home and it also displaced a special nonprofit here on Maui.
Chelsea DavisCORRESPONDENT
I'm standing where a bathtub used to be.
Chelsea DavisCORRESPONDENT
It's been more than one month since heavy rain from Lala flooded the Oberg family home in Haiku, causing more than $100,000 in damage.
speaker_6HOST
The HNN investigates report.
speaker_4HOST
A small Maui business is trying to rebuild after suffering significant damage from Hurricane Lala.
speaker_4HOST
Chelsea Davis reports from upcountry.
speaker_6HOST
Tensions escalate after an ICE agent shoots a Venezuelan national in Austin, Texas.
LitaHOST
Frank Karasi opened a coffee farm in Hawaii's Bee Island in 2018 after falling in love with the area while on vacation with his wife.
LitaHOST
Karasi lost about one-third of his trees when Hurricane Lala hit the island in August.
LitaHOST
The storm whipped the Kona region where the farm is located with 75 mile per hour winds and dropped three feet of rain in some areas.
LitaHOST
The winds ripped some of Kerasi's trees out of the ground and broke branches off countless others.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're also seeing many broken coral colonies that are still surviving that likely only have a short window of time to survive without being stably attached to the substrate.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So that's what our team has been out there this week on Hawaii Island working to address damage still from Hurricane Lala, taking these coral colonies and reattaching them to the reef with cement.
Catherine CruzHOST
And then where in particular are you doing this work?
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we are currently working in Kona.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It does.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It feels relentless.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And You know, I mentioned that Hurricane Lala caused substantial damage, reef damage, on Hawaii Island.
Julia RoseSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Lowell obviously caused a huge amount of damage on Kauai and Niihau, but what has been really interesting and really unfortunate to see is that Lowell also caused damage on essentially every other island as well.
Tamiah JohnstonHOST
It was really neat.
Tamiah JohnstonHOST
So to wrap up the... food poisoning story so of course when you go to the United States if you're a Canadian they don't know what gravel is so I went to the KTA shout out to get like Pedialyte gravel because of course we did a quick google search I'm like what do we do for food poisoning anyways so and we had Pepto on hand but you can't do Pepto because I guess with food poisoning it makes sense like you want to just get it all out and you want to stay hydrated and you want to calm your system but they don't have gravel there so anyways we basically just got Pedialyte for him and he just had to rest and sleep so the next day was the planned day to go over to the volcano so we just focused on helping him to feel better and then we would figure out what the plans were also Hawaii Volcanoes National Park had been closed from Hurricane Lala as well.
Tamiah JohnstonHOST
So we didn't know if we were going to be able to go and then they we heard that they had just reopened at like noon that day that we like the day before we were planning on going.
Tamiah JohnstonHOST
So anyways, okay.
speaker_1HOST
Anyone who cannot file their general excise tax or transient accommodations tax on time can ask for a waiver of penalties and interest through January 20th.
speaker_1HOST
Anyone who already requested a waiver for their G.E.T. or T.A.T. returns because of Hurricane Lala must file a new request for relief from Hurricane Lowell.
Jennifer RobbinsCORRESPONDENT
And the remnants of Norbert continues to pull away from the islands, but we're seeing some residual moisture today.
Jennifer RobbinsCORRESPONDENT
Let's take a closer look at the radar.
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Annalisa BurgosCORRESPONDENT
Just like home insurance, Reef Insurance provides financial protection for unexpected loss and damage to something of value, in this case, nature.
Annalisa BurgosCORRESPONDENT
The difference is the payout isn't based on an adjuster's assessment, but on the nature of the storm.
Annalisa BurgosCORRESPONDENT
The Nature Conservancy says its reef insurance policy paid out $200,000 after Hurricane Lala and $300,000 after Lowell, calculated from the storm's wind speed above 50 knots and its proximity to the islands.
speaker_18SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We essentially agree upon certain parameters ahead of time that would trigger...
Eliot JacobsonGUEST
You know what happened in what's happening this year in France with the rivers in Spain and now England and drought and all those things doesn't make headlines anymore internationally.
Eliot JacobsonGUEST
You know, half of the big island of Hawaii, the East Coast, has been decimated by the that Hurricane Lala or whatever that went through there that even didn't touch the news.
Eliot JacobsonGUEST
So what is it going to take for a global event to happen? What global event do you have in mind?
Jay ShapiroHOST
Yeah, I don't know.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So we're very sensitive to that.
Mahealani RichardsonCORRESPONDENT
Senate President Ron Koji, who's from Kauai, is meeting with the governor and other leaders on Kauai Thursday to talk about how much money the island will need to help with its recovery, on top of funding for Hurricane Lala and the Konaloa storms.
Ron KojiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When we say we're gonna reopen, we need to be clear that maybe, uh, if you're planning to come and you're able to go to Lihue and Kapaa, we'd be able to better accommodate you, uh, as guests.
Ron KojiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But right now, along the ocean in Poipu, you know, roads washed out.
Stephanie LumHOST
On Hawaii Island, the owner of a small community book shack in Waiohinu is working to rebuild.
Stephanie LumHOST
Thousands of books were destroyed in the floods from Hurricane Lala, which came just months after damage from March's Konalo.
Stephanie LumHOST
Donations kept them afloat.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Honestly, when I walked into it the first time that I saw it, I cried.
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