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Hurricane Lala could be the first hurricane landfall on Hawaii’s Big Island.

A hurricane has never made landfall on Hawaii’s Big Island in recorded history.

I traveled to the Big Island in Hawaii as people prepared for Lalam and it’s unlike almost anything they’ve experienced here, grocery carts filled with supplies, generators being loaded into trucks and sandbags being stacked ahead of potentially dangerous rain and wind.

Can something so seemingly impossible happen? Well, let’s look at the last 8 years in Hawaii.

In 2018, Category 5 Hurricane Lane never made landfall, yet dumped nearly five feet of rain on parts of the Big Island and caused devastating flooding. That same year, Kīlauea erupted for months, destroying more than 700 homes and literally changing the island’s coastline.

Five years later, wildfire raced through Lahaina on Maui, killing more than 100 people and destroying one of Hawaii’s most historic communities.

Now another potentially historic disaster is approaching.

This is the story of Hurricane Lala, why hurricanes so rarely reach the Big Island, how Hawaii’s enormous volcanoes can both protect the island and intensify rainfall and why people here are preparing even when history tells them the storm may never make it.

After everything Hawaii has experienced over the last eight years, maybe a hurricane wouldn’t be so strange after all.

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