Chapter TwoRain that had blanketed all the islands for days was due to atmospheric instability in the peripheral areas around the weather condition to the south. Tropical Storm Lilo was traveling at about ten miles per hour over the ocean's surface roughly eight hundred miles directly south of The Big Island, also known as Hawaii. The newscaster said that placed Lilo approximately five hundred sixty miles east northeast of the U.S. territory of Palmyra near Kingman Reef down toward the Equator. Residents there had already hunkered down or evacuated. Lilo was not expected to drop southward due to predictable wind currents. So those islands would not endure the full wrath of the storm. Still, related conditions had already begun to cause widespread flooding and wind damage. The storm had alr
