{"id":6743,"date":"2025-07-30T21:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6743"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:10:38","slug":"oprah-responds-to-claims-about-keeping-private-road-closed-during-hawaii-tsunami-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6743","title":{"rendered":"Oprah responds to claims about keeping private road closed during Hawaii tsunami evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"159\"><strong data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"159\">Tsunami Hits Hawaii After Major Earthquake, Oprah Faces Backlash Over Road Access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"347\">Tsunami waves reached Hawaii after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka Peninsula. Residents were urged to seek higher ground, and evacuation led to traffic chaos.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"349\" data-end=\"674\">Amid the panic, social media erupted with claims that Oprah Winfrey refused to open a private road on her Maui estate, blocking a potential evacuation route. A viral video showed a line of cars outside her gated road, sparking public outrage. Posts on X (formerly Twitter) accused Oprah of preventing access to higher ground.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"940\">However, Oprah\u2019s team denied the claims. A spokesperson said the road\u2014technically public but passing through her property\u2014was opened promptly in coordination with local authorities. Maui police confirmed the road was open and being used to help evacuate residents.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"942\" data-end=\"1251\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Tsunami waves were also reported in California, Russia, and Japan. Although buildings were damaged\u2014like a collapsed kindergarten in Russia\u2014no casualties have been reported. Evacuation alerts were issued across the Pacific, affecting millions in countries including the U.S., Japan, Chile, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami Hits Hawaii After Major Earthquake, Oprah Faces Backlash Over Road Access Tsunami waves reached Hawaii after a powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia&#8217;s Kamchatka Peninsula. Residents were urged to seek higher ground, and evacuation led to traffic chaos. Amid the panic, social media erupted with claims that Oprah Winfrey refused to open a private road&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6743\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Oprah responds to claims about keeping private road closed during Hawaii tsunami evacuation&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6743\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}