Originally Posted by
IAH-OIL-TRASH
Not true. I grew up in Hawaii (1956-1982). Not a single "Big Hurricane" during that period and only Iniki since. That's 50+ years w/ only one big one. And even prior to Iniki, I can't recall my parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts etc reminiscing about a major hurricane there since the '20s when my family arrived there. A couple of barely Cat 1 blows, but even those are very few and far between.
Hawaii was hit by Hurricane Dot in 1959 resulting in $6million damages, Fico in 1978, Iwa in 1982, and of course Iniki which was the worst, causing over $2billion in damages. So while it's not a perfect 15 year gap between storms, they do happen.
Anyways, back to the original post, as of now, CO is reporting on their website that Flossie is not impacting HNL operations at all. And a despite the strong winds at KOA and ITO, it looks like things with air travel are pretty normal there too for the inter-island carriers.