报道
飓风与夏威夷擦身而过，却仍造成重创
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译自英文原文。
92 mph普乌卢阿测得的最高陆地阵风 2
$400M+考艾岛损失估算 12
早期数据混淆了陆地上和海面上发生的情况。美国广播公司（ABC）报道风速超过100 mph，全国广播公司（NBC）报道阵风达85 mph；两家媒体都指向了真实情况，但说的是不同数据。123 陆地上官方测得的最高风速，是9月7日晚上11时35分在海拔3,273英尺的普乌卢阿记录到的92 mph阵风。2 其他阵风包括纳威利威的87 mph、威美亚的85 mph，以及巴金桑兹和利胡埃机场的84 mph；利胡埃机场持续风速约为53至59 mph，阵风为79至84 mph。2 没有任何官方陆地气象站记录到100 mph或以上的阵风，或达到这一水平的持续风速；超过100 mph这一数字描述的是风暴在开阔海域的风力，或风暴来临前对西部山坡的预报，并非岛上经核实的实测数据。2
海水做到了风力未能做到的事
地点
- 01考艾岛波伊普霍奥纳路
- 02考艾岛艾伦港
- 03考艾岛凯卡哈
- 04尼豪岛
海岸附近遭受了令人难以置信的严重破坏
洛厄尔擦身而过，破坏却留了下来
未知
- 包括科洛阿附近可能发生的事件在内，尚无龙卷风得到官方确认
- 最终损失总额以及考艾岛偏远地区全面恢复供电的日期仍未知
后续
- 联邦是否会为考艾县和毛伊县批准灾害声明
- 恢复供电后，沿岸评估是否会进一步推高损失估算
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播出原貌
- Hurricane Lowell never touched land — and it still tore homes off their foundations on Kauai.
- The storm's center stayed roughly forty miles west of Niihau. But its western edge alone knocked out power to ninety percent of the island, buried a resort's first floor in sand, and pushed the damage estimate above four hundred million dollars.
- The storm has moved off — the shoreline assessment is far from finished. So what does the destruction actually add up to?
- The "over one hundred miles per hour" figure described the storm's winds over open water — or a pre-storm forecast for the western mountain slopes. It was never a verified reading on any island. On land, the highest officially measured gust was ninety-two miles per hour at Puu Lua, three thousand two hundred seventy-three feet up, at eleven thirty-five on the night of September seventh. Nawiliwili gusted to eighty-seven, Waimea to eighty-five, Barking Sands and Lihue Airport to eighty-four. Sustained winds at Lihue Airport ran about fifty-three to fifty-nine.
- The center passed about forty miles west of Niihau — close enough that Kauai and Niihau sat inside the storm's right-front quadrant, where the most destructive winds and surge ride. Oahu, farther east, caught a lighter blow.
- What the storm lacked in wind, it made up in water. South-facing Kauai shores saw surf of twenty to thirty feet. Waves topping twenty-five feet demolished homes and carried cars away in Poipu — and riding a high tide and a one-to-three-foot storm surge, the combination, not any single ingredient, is what destroyed so much.
- The first floor of the Sheraton Kauai Resort was buried in sand. Along Hoona Road near Baby Beach, homes were pushed off their foundations or destroyed — one lifted clear, split in two, part of the structure thrown across the street. One witness counted five or six homes destroyed on a single street. Cars were carried across a resort parking lot. Port Allen Small Boat Harbor took extensive pier and vessel damage, and the state had to clear rocks off Kaumualii Highway in Kekaha.
- Rain piled onto the island's wetter slopes. Wainiha collected 19.89 inches. Kilohana saw about twenty, and Mount Waialeale and Mohihi Crossing fifteen to eighteen. Lower elevations and the other islands mostly saw four to ten inches — so the figure quoted as "nearly a foot and a half" describes the Kauai peaks, not a statewide average. The rain drove flash flooding and mudslides, mostly on Kauai, and that threat isn't over.
- Two people died. On Kauai, a seventy-four-year-old man from Kalaheo was found dead on the morning of September ninth along the shoreline fronting Nomilu Fishpond, between Poipu and Eleele. Officials say the death appears related to storm surge. An autopsy is pending, and foul play isn't suspected — he'd been reported missing the day before. On Oahu, a man living at Sherwood Beach in Waimanalo was killed when a large tree fell on his campsite. Police are treating it as an unattended death with no foul play suspected. At least one more injury has been reported on Kauai.
- The grid took the heaviest hit. The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative lost power to roughly ninety to ninety-two percent of its customers. By late Wednesday, crews had restored about a quarter — roughly nine thousand customers — with hospitals the priority and most of those back online. Isolated north-shore and far-west areas may wait days to a few weeks. Mutual-aid crews started arriving Thursday. On Oahu, outages peaked near twenty-one thousand and were nearly fully restored by Wednesday, with only a few hundred still dark.
- Governor Green toured Kauai on Wednesday and put the initial damage estimate for the island above four hundred million dollars — more than Hurricane Lala earlier this year. He issued a statewide state of emergency back on September third, before the storm arrived, activating the National Guard and the Major Disaster Fund through November first. That same day, he sent an expedited request to President Trump for a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Kauai and Maui counties, seeking to skip the usual joint preliminary damage assessment. It had not been approved as of this morning.
- The state's first tornado watch went out the afternoon of the seventh, in effect overnight, with warnings following. As of Tuesday, none had been officially confirmed — though one account suggested a possible brief tornado near Koloa. The heaviest damage came in a single passing, and recovery has been an uneven grind ever since.
- Lowell has already moved on. By late Wednesday it was about six hundred ten miles northwest of Lihue, still packing fifty-mile-per-hour sustained winds, moving west and weakening. No coastal watches or warnings remain for Hawaii. The dangerous surf and rip currents that drove the surge peaked during closest approach and lingered about a day after the center left. By Wednesday and Thursday the high-surf warnings had expired or were winding down, though elevated seas and rip-current risk are still being flagged — and authorities keep telling people to stay off the shoreline as cleanup begins.
- One early account got the location of the worst damage wrong, placing the flattened homes and the near-total power loss in a neighborhood called Poe on the island of Hawaii. The confirmed destruction and the ninety-percent outage were on Kauai, along the Poipu shoreline.
- So what does the destruction add up to? The governor's initial estimate for Kauai alone is above four hundred million dollars, and the request for a federal disaster declaration is still pending. The final number won't be known until the grid is restored and the shoreline assessment is complete. Two people are dead. Ninety percent of one island went dark. And a hurricane that never touched Hawaii has become one of the most consequential tropical cyclones to hit the state in decades.
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