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he Eastern Pacific's first hurricanes of the year headed toward Hawaii, prompting forecasters to recommend Sunday that residents stock up on emergency supplies.

The Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu said hurricanes Jova and Kenneth were unlikely to come ashore, but added they were distant enough to make it hard to predict what they would do.

Forecaster Bob Farrell said the mostly likely scenario was for Jova to dump heavy rain on the islands from late Friday through Sunday after weakening. Kenneth's rains would follow later.

As of late Sunday, Jova was 850 miles southeast of Hilo and headed northwest on a path tracing the eastern coasts of the Hawaiian islands.

It packed winds of 105 miles per hour, making it a Category 2 hurricane.

Kenneth followed Jova on a parallel path about 600 to 700 miles to the east. It was a Category 4 storm with recorded winds of about 135 miles per hour.
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Ku'u, Nal, were either of you effected in any way when that big chunk of island broke off last week?
 
Am I that out of the loop that I wasn't aware a big chunk of land broke off?

The latest reports are saying that the Jova and Kenneth will pass by *phew* But my husband and I still stocked up on candles, batteries, canned goods, and we have a lot of water jugs we use for camping all ready to be filled with water.
 
HomeLAN - Jova is slowing and the eye is closing up .. it's actually heading north and they think it's going to miss us all together, with the exception of some residual surf. Not sure what Kenneth is gonna do yet.

Leslie - not sandbagging .. actually, being that the house is surrounded by sand on three sides, that wouldn't really do anything but add to the mess :D

Prof - no, we weren't affected at all. It was actually a *new* piece of land created by the flow that eaved out (unsure if I'm using the right words here) from the shore into the water instead of sloping down .. so it broke off easily (if I remember correctly, it was something like 12 acres of new land).

Ku'u - when it happened, my family from Texas was calling every 5 minutes to see if it was us LOL ... local news didn't say crap about it. The news on the mainland made it sound like the island broke in half and dropped into the abyss :D
 
...kind of like how earthquakes between 4 and 5 on the Richter Scale get barely a mention on the local news here?
 
Inkara1 said:
...kind of like how earthquakes between 4 and 5 on the Richter Scale get barely a mention on the local news here?
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Laugh it up while you can...you're the one sitting on an area likely to be a bay in the future. :D
 
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