Hawaii's emergency officials are pressing older residents to build an evacuation plan now, with hurricane season running for months more — a warning aimed at the people most likely to die in a storm.

• Elderly residents are told to line up help from family, relatives, and neighbors before a storm hits, not during one.
• A hurricane brings three threats at once: storm surge, flooding, and wind.
• During Hurricane Kīlauea-era flooding on the Big Island, a 93-year-old woman was killed, apparently while trying to reach a shelter through floodwaters.
• A storm does not have to be overhead to hurt you — rain bands, waves, and surge reach 100 to 150 miles ahead of the center.
• Hawaii has not taken a direct landfall since 1992, so most residents have never felt real hurricane winds, which start at 74 mph and gust far higher.

Outlook: With weeks of hurricane season left, officials expect more pressure on families to check flood and surge zones and sort out who moves whom.