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The Hawaiʻi Dept of Transportation is preparing for potential impacts to state routes on Maui and is focusing on pre-staging plans for Hāna Hwy ahead of Olivia.

The National Weather Service has CONTINUED the TROPICAL STORM WARNING for MAUI COUNTY. 

Maui Olivia Traffic Advisories: Road Closures, Landslides, Detours

Olivia will be moving over the main Hawaiian Islands late Tuesday night into Wednesday. The chance for flooding rainfall will increase rapidly Tuesday night.

As Maui County braces for the impacts associated with Tropical Storm Olivia, Maui Now is keeping track of what’s open and closed. Check back frequently…

Below is an ongoing list of Power Outages and Power Restoration happening in Maui County.  This post will be updated regularly over the duration of the storm.

Preparations are underway at airports, harbors and highways across the state in advance of possible weather impacts from Tropical Storm Olivia.

As of now, the only school closure in effect for Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 will be for Hāna High and Elementary School. On Tuesday, all after school programs have been cancelled on Maui and the Big Island. 

Mayor Arakawa said he is not anticipating the closure of county facilities because most of the impacts are forecast for the evening and early morning hours over the course of an 8-12 hour period between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. 

A Tropical Storm WARNING is now in effect for Maui County (including the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi and Kahoʻolawe) and Hawaiʻi County.

Hurricane Olivia had intensified overnight, with maximum sustained winds at 85 mph, and slowed its forward advance to 10 mph toward the west.

The National Weather Service has ISSUED a TROPICAL STORM WATCH for MAUI COUNTY.

“Two things that concern us at a time like this are emergency fatigue and the public underestimating the threat,” said HI-EMA Administrator Tom Travis.

The latest track could bring the outer circulation of Olivia close to the Hawaiian Islands starting on Tuesday night, according to CPHC forecasters.

Olivia has weakened to a Category 1 (74-95 mph) hurricane with sustained winds near 85 mph, and the system is moving toward the west near 15 mph.

The long-range forecast has Olivia crossing into the Central Pacific basin by late Saturday and nearing the islands on Tuesday or Wednesday as a Tropical Storm.

Hurricane Norman is now well East of Maui and has weakened in with sustained winds at 110 mph, at the upper edge of the Category 2 threshold.

“Lingering deep tropical moisture associated with Lane will keep island weather cloudy and wet today,” according to the National Weather Service, which had issued a Flood Watch for the state in effect through this afternoon.

Parts of Maui continue cleanup in the aftermath of former Hurricane Lane that dropped record rainfall over the islands and the devastating fires in West Maui.

On Maui, the greatest rainfall totals were at West Wailuaiki (between Keʻanae and Nāhiku) in East Maui where more than 24 inches fell over four days, followed by Puʻu Kukui  (Mauna Kahalawai) in the West Maui Mountains where nearly 15 inches were reported over the same period.