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Honolulu Emergency Director Concerned About Single-Walled Homes as Kiko Approaches

On Friday, Hurricane Kiko was a Category 3 storm with sustained winds about 125 mph, moving toward the Hawaiian Islands.
The system formed on Sunday as part of the Eastern North Pacific hurricane season, rapidly intensifying to about 145 mph as a Category 4 before fluctuating in strength.
The National Hurricane Center said `Kiko is moving toward the west near 8 mph and this general motion is expected to continue through Thursday night`; it forecasts Kiko to pass just north of the Big Island as a Tropical Storm on Tuesday.
Swells from Kiko could reach Hawaiian shores by the end of this weekend, producing life-threatening surf and rip currents while statewide flash flooding remains possible depending on the storm's path.
A direct landfall would be rare given Hawaii's history of just two hurricane landfalls since 1950, and cooler sea surface temperatures in the mid-70s with hostile upper-level winds are expected to weaken Kiko before arrival next week.

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Honolulu emergency director concerned about single-walled homes as Kiko approaches

HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Officials are hoping that Kiko's track leads to weakening and a turn to the north, but with uncertainty, they're still preparing for the worst. Honolulu's Emergency Management Agency Director, Randal Collins, says one of his biggest concerns when it comes to hurricanes is the prevalence of single-walled homes on Oahu, which are particularly vulnerable to strong winds and rain. Hurricane Kiko expected to lose hurricane st…

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Hawaii turns watchful eye to Hurricane Kiko as storm returns to Category 4 strength

While the islands are in the five-day forecast cone, meteorologists said that Kiko will be a completely different storm by the time it approaches Hawaii early next week.

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