{"id":6753,"date":"2025-07-30T21:48:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:48:48","slug":"oprah-responds-to-claims-about-keeping-private-road-closed-during-hawaii-tsunami-evacuation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6753","title":{"rendered":"Oprah responds to claims about keeping private road closed during Hawaii tsunami evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"158\"><strong data-start=\"80\" data-end=\"158\">Tsunami Hits Hawaii After 8.8 Quake, Oprah Faces Backlash Over Road Access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"160\" data-end=\"380\">Tsunami waves hit Hawaii after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula. Residents were urged to flee to higher ground, leading to widespread traffic and online claims involving Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"604\">Social media erupted after a viral video alleged Oprah refused to open a private road on her Maui estate, potentially blocking evacuees. \u201cWe\u2019re stuck and a tsunami is coming,\u201d a man said in the video, showing closed gates.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"785\">Oprah owns land in Kula, Hawaii, through which Thompson Road\u2014a public road crossing private property\u2014runs. The video sparked outrage, with users accusing her of endangering lives.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"1044\">However, Oprah&#8217;s spokesperson and local police refuted the claims. Officials confirmed the road had been opened to help evacuees. A statement from her team said they coordinated with FEMA and law enforcement to ensure access as soon as warnings were issued.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1046\" data-end=\"1266\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The earthquake also triggered tsunami activity in California, Japan, and parts of Russia. No casualties have been reported, but damages include a collapsed kindergarten in Russia. Several Pacific nations remain on alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsunami Hits Hawaii After 8.8 Quake, Oprah Faces Backlash Over Road Access Tsunami waves hit Hawaii after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula. Residents were urged to flee to higher ground, leading to widespread traffic and online claims involving Oprah Winfrey. Social media erupted after a viral video alleged Oprah refused to open&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6753\" 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":6754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6753","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\/6753","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=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}