I live on O’ahu (same island as these towns, but they are several miles away from where I live, on the North Shore). This is some serious stuff. I posted a few links over on my Mastodon account, but if you’re interested to learn more about what’s going on, please check out the Honolulu Civil Beat. They have several stories going on with excellent journalism–particularly an investigative story they did on this very dam that showed Dole (the pineapple company; also the family that led the overthrow of the Kingdom) has known for around FIFTY YEARS that this dam was unsafe but have kicked the can toward other entities to try and fix it rather than pay for it themselves.

EDIT: Link to Civil Beat’s homepage. Probably the best journalistic outlet in Hawai’i: https://www.civilbeat.org/