{"id":85487,"date":"2026-08-16T06:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85487"},"modified":"2026-08-16T06:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:15:21","slug":"hurricane-lashes-hawaiis-big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hurricane-lashes-hawaiis-big-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lashes Hawaii&#8217;s Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">Hurricane Lala was forecast to bring more strong winds, heavy rain and storm surges to Hawaii overnight and into early Sunday, after the storm\u2019s center narrowly missed land, passing just south of the Big Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-qhzo1x evys1bk0\">\u201cDamaging winds will persist across portions of the Big Island of Hawaii overnight, with the strongest winds expected in areas of higher terrain,\u201d the National Hurricane Center\u00a0<a class=\"css-povzk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/HFOTCPCP2+shtml\/160852.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in an advisory<\/a>\u00a0published at 11 p.m. local time. Precipitation totals could reach up to 35 inches in some areas, which could produce life-threatening flooding and mudslides, forecasters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times; Hurricane Lala was forecast to bring more strong winds, heavy rain and storm surges to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85488,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85487\/revisions\/85488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}