HONOLULU (AP) — The National Hurricane Center has tweeted that a new tropical storm, Hector, has formed well out at sea in the eastern Pacific. There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect, the center said. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
HONOLULU — The National Hurricane Center has tweeted that a new tropical storm, Hector, has formed well out at sea in the eastern Pacific.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
Floods closed Highway 11 between Kona and Hilo, and a higher-altitude alternative, the Cane Road, was closed by flooding as well, isolating properties like the Aikane Plantation Coffee Co. outside Pahala, where owner Phil Becker said his 10-inch rain gauge overflowed in the deluge. Hurricane Gilma, meanwhile, weakened to a still-major Category 3 hurricane Saturday night, but it was far east of Hawaii and forecast to weaken into a depression before it reaches the islands.
“It’s been really soaking those areas, there’s been flooding of roads. Roads have been cut off by high flood waters there in the windward sections of the big island, and really that’s the only portion of the state that’s had much flooding concern at this point,” he said. Calvin Endo, a Waianae Coast neighborhood board member who lives in Makaha, a leeward Oahu neighborhood prone to wildfires, has worried for years about dry brush on private property behind his home. He's taken matters into his own hands by clearing the brush himself, but he's concerned about nearby homes abutting overgrown vegetation.
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