At least one dead, tens of thousands without power and over 100 homes damaged in wake of Hurricane Lala in Hawaii | CNN

At least one person has died in Hawaii after Hurricane Lala swept south of the state over the weekend, bringing torrential rain that touched off destructive flooding. In the wake of the storm, officials discovered the body of a 90-year-old woman who “perished in the flood,” Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said at a news conference Monday. The woman had been reported missing in a neighborhood in the south of the Big Island and rescue crews from multiple agencies, including the National Guard, were dispatched to the search effort, officials said. Lala, now a tropical storm, has moved away from Hawaii and is going west over the open Pacific. The storm’s last few bands of rain departed Kauai early Monday, giving residents and officials across the islands space to deal with its aftermath. Exceptionally heavy rainfall, over 3 and a half feet of it in the Big Island’s mountains, set off landslides and flash floods that wiped out roads on the island and swept at least one home entirely off its foundation. Maui’s mountainous areas saw up to 2 feet of rain. Over 100 homes were “damaged and lost” in the storm on the island of Hawaii, also known as the Big Island, Green said Sunday. About