00:00Hawaii is facing something that emergency planners call a compound disaster.
00:04Multiple simultaneous threats combining into a crisis that no single agency can handle alone.
00:11Governor Josh Green has declared a state of emergency.
00:14After severe flooding, struck a ground already saturated from weeks of Kona low weather events.
00:20At the same time, volcanic hazards are active on the Big Island.
00:23And coastal erosion from the combined weather system is threatening infrastructure along the shoreline.
00:30The County of Hawaii issued an emergency proclamation effective April 8th,
00:35activating disaster funds and emergency powers to coordinate the response.
00:39The Hawaiian Islands received extraordinary rainfall,
00:43with some stations recording over five inches in a single day,
00:46overwhelming drainage systems and causing flash floods across residential and agricultural areas.
00:52The combination of saturated ground conditions and ongoing volcanic and coastal hazards
00:57is exactly the kind of compounding scenario that scientists have warned about as climate patterns shift.
01:04Residents on the Big Island have been urged to avoid low-lying areas,
01:08coastal roads, and any areas near active volcanic zones.
01:12This is what a compound disaster looks like, and Hawaii is dealing with all of it at once.
01:17This was one of the crit pretty much worse.
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