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re: Hurricanes/Tornados/Severe Weather Reports>Hurricane Blanca
ISELLE HITS LAND: FLASH FLOODING WARNINGS ISSUED
8 August 2014
STRONGEST ON RECORD
Hurricanes ISELLE & JULIO
are sweeping into the Hawaiian Islands, bringing heavy rain, high winds, high surf, power cuts and coastal flooding
AP Photo/NOAA
This image provided by NOAA taken Thursday Aug. 7, 2014 at 2 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Iselle, left and Hurricane Julio.
The first bands of wind and rain from Hurricane Iselle, since downgraded to a tropical storm, swept over Hawaii's Big Island on Thursday, knocking out power for thousands, felling trees and snarling travel for tourists trying to get out before the storm hit. Iselle was expected to pass overnight across the Big Island, one of the least populated islands known for coffee fields, volcanoes and black sand beaches, then send rain and high winds to the rest of the state on Friday.
Hawaiians were preparing for a one-two punch as Hurricane Julio, close on Iselle's heels in the Pacific, strengthened to a Category 3 storm on Thursday. Two big storms so close together is a rare occurrence in the eastern Pacific. Iselle is expected to be the first tropical storm to landfall in the Big Island since 1958.
Hurricane ISELLE | Julio landfall Hits Hawaii Storms:
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