{"id":5949,"date":"2026-08-16T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/16\/hurricane-lala-threatens-hawaiis-big-island-with-potentially-catastrophic-winds-and-rain\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T07:44:12","slug":"hurricane-lala-threatens-hawaiis-big-island-with-potentially-catastrophic-winds-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/08\/16\/hurricane-lala-threatens-hawaiis-big-island-with-potentially-catastrophic-winds-and-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Lala Threatens Hawaii&#8217;s Big Island with Potentially Catastrophic Winds and Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Lala is intensifying and bearing down on Hawaii&#8217;s Big Island, threatening the region with its first direct hurricane hit in 155 years. Category 1 winds, heavy rainfall, and dangerous surf are expected, prompting Governor Josh Green to declare a state of emergency and urge residents to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters predict up to 25 inches of rain in higher elevations, raising concerns of mudslides, while widespread power outages have already begun. The storm&#8217;s approach also heightens wildfire risks, a stark reminder of the devastating 2023 Maui fires.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/08\/17\/lala-strengthens-into-a-hurricane-and-bears-down-on-hawaiis-big-island-with-heavy-rain-winds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurricane Lala is intensifying and bearing down on Hawaii&#8217;s Big Island, threatening the region with its first direct hurricane hit in 155 years. Category 1 winds, heavy rainfall, and dangerous surf are expected, prompting Governor Josh Green to declare a state of emergency and urge residents to shelter in place. Forecasters predict up to 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/240817130826-01-tropical-storm-lala-hawaii-0817.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_833,w_1480,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-global-affairs","category-global-security","category-travel","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-josh-green"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/240817130826-01-tropical-storm-lala-hawaii-0817.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_833,w_1480,c_fill","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}