I was watching the national news yesterday and saw an emphasis on what may be the "first hurricane of the season".
Perhaps this is just another indication that the national news is East Coast and European centric because over here in the Pacific, there have already been at least three hurricanes this season.
In fact, a very powerful category 5 super typhoon is even now heading for Wake Island. Last week Friday, then hurricane Ioke (strong storms east of the International Date Line are called hurricanes but are called typhoons when they cross the dateline) set an informal record for lowest sea level pressure ever recorded in the central Pacific. All the inhabitants of Wake Island were airlifted to Honolulu aboard two C-17 military transports.
Furthermore, there is another hurricane currently off the coast of Mexico.
No, the point is not to scare everyone away from the Pacific, or Hawaii specifically, since very rarely do hurricanes hit here (maybe once very 10 years or so). The point is the national news tends to turn a blind eye to the Pacific side of the North American continent.
Aloha!
