Historic floods drenched Hawaii into the weekend, leaving behind an estimated $1 billion in damages with no plans yet for Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster response.
While Hawaiian residents were evacuated during the floods, several states in the continental Southwest reeled from a record-breaking, early heat wave.
Hawaii, meanwhile, saw what Gov. Josh Green called the state's worst flooding since 2004.
“This storm could cost over $1 billion of damage,” Green told reporters during a press conference Friday.
Rain pounded the Hawaiian Islands through the weekend on the tail end of two back-to-back storms that started March 10. Record rainfall hit the state day-after-day in some areas, with up to 4 feet of rain during the storm’s first week recorded in parts of Maui, according to the National Weather Service.
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