{"id":77609,"date":"2026-08-19T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/hawaii-crews-work-to-restore-power-to-thousands-after-lala-outages\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:55:34","slug":"hawaii-crews-work-to-restore-power-to-thousands-after-lala-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/hawaii-crews-work-to-restore-power-to-thousands-after-lala-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii crews work to restore power to thousands after Lala outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Storm also caused destructive flooding and damage to homes and infrastructure with one woman dead<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/storm-lala-hawaii-damage\">Tropical storm Lala wreaks \u2018devastation\u2019 to some areas of Hawaii\u2019s Big Island<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Crews in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hawaii\">Hawaii<\/a> are working to restore power to thousands of residents after the outer bands of Hurricane Lala <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/16\/hurricane-lala-hawaii-big-island-avoids-landfall\">battered<\/a> the islands over the weekend, causing destructive flooding and killing one person.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/17\/storm-lala-hawaii-damage\">hard-hit Big Island<\/a>, crews were working to clear and restore roads, but some communities on the southern end of the island remained isolated as they were cut off from communication.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/19\/hawaii-power-outages-storm-lala-damage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storm also caused destructive flooding and damage to homes and infrastructure with one woman dead Tropical storm Lala wreaks \u2018devastation\u2019 to some areas of Hawaii\u2019s Big Island Crews in Hawaii are working to restore power to thousands of residents after the outer bands of Hurricane Lala battered the islands over the weekend, causing destructive flooding &#8230; <a title=\"Hawaii crews work to restore power to thousands after Lala outages\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/hawaii-crews-work-to-restore-power-to-thousands-after-lala-outages\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hawaii crews work to restore power to thousands after Lala outages\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77609","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=77609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}