{"id":69660,"date":"2026-03-21T19:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/hawaii-urges-residents-to-leave-now-amid-worst-flooding-in-over-20-years\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T00:54:50","slug":"hawaii-urges-residents-to-leave-now-amid-worst-flooding-in-over-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/hawaii-urges-residents-to-leave-now-amid-worst-flooding-in-over-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii urges residents to \u2018leave now\u2019 amid worst flooding in over 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in hard-hit areas of Oahu and Maui told to evacuate with still more rain expected over the weekend<\/p>\n<p>As Hawaii endures its worst flooding in more than 20 years, officials urged people in hard-hit areas to \u201cLEAVE NOW\u201d. That warning early on Saturday came after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours from a winter storm a week ago, and still more was expected over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Muddy floodwaters smothered vast stretches of Oahu\u2019s North Shore, a community renowned for its big-wave surfing. Raging waters lifted homes and cars and prompted evacuation orders for 5,500 people north of Honolulu. Authorities cautioned that a 120-year-old dam could fail.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/21\/hawaii-flooding-warnings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in hard-hit areas of Oahu and Maui told to evacuate with still more rain expected over the weekend As Hawaii endures its worst flooding in more than 20 years, officials urged people in hard-hit areas to \u201cLEAVE NOW\u201d. That warning early on Saturday came after heavy rains fell on soil already saturated by downpours &#8230; <a title=\"Hawaii urges residents to \u2018leave now\u2019 amid worst flooding in over 20 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/hawaii-urges-residents-to-leave-now-amid-worst-flooding-in-over-20-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hawaii urges residents to \u2018leave now\u2019 amid worst flooding in over 20 years\">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-69660","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\/69660","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=69660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}