{"id":69583,"date":"2026-03-20T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/thousands-ordered-to-evacuate-as-hawaii-hit-by-severe-flash-floods\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:55:00","slug":"thousands-ordered-to-evacuate-as-hawaii-hit-by-severe-flash-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/thousands-ordered-to-evacuate-as-hawaii-hit-by-severe-flash-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands ordered to evacuate as Hawaii hit by severe flash floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials warn some residents could be trapped by rising waters as Wahiaw\u0101 dam on Oahu \u2018may collapse at any time\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Towering flash floods and an imminent dam failure in the northern part of Oahu triggered evacuation warnings in Hawaii on Friday, as the state continued contending with a powerful storm this week.<\/p>\n<p>The waters came on quickly in the middle of the night, and videos on social media captured inundated streets and cars being swallowed by the muddy floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/hawaii-oahu-flash-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials warn some residents could be trapped by rising waters as Wahiaw\u0101 dam on Oahu \u2018may collapse at any time\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Towering flash floods and an imminent dam failure in the northern part of Oahu triggered evacuation warnings in Hawaii on &#8230; <a title=\"Thousands ordered to evacuate as Hawaii hit by severe flash floods\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/thousands-ordered-to-evacuate-as-hawaii-hit-by-severe-flash-floods\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Thousands ordered to evacuate as Hawaii hit by severe flash floods\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}