Shafaqna English– On Saturday(15 Aug 2026), Hurricane Lala bore down on Hawaii, unleashing ferocious winds and torrential downpours that knocked out electricity for upward of 40,000 households and businesses statewide. The National Hurricane Center simultaneously issued a stark alert, cautioning residents that the unfolding weather event posed a direct and imminent danger to human life.
By 2:14 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time — which corresponds to 00:14 GMT early Sunday — the number of utility customers affected by the blackout had climbed to 42,889 across the state. The Big Island bore the brunt of the outages with 31,792 customers in the dark, while Maui County — encompassing the islands of Maui, Lanai, and Molokai — reported 7,203 additional cases of power failure.
Source: Reuters