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Although it's the Big Island's capital, and largest town, just
45,000 people live in HILO , which remains endearing and unpressured.
Mass tourism has never taken off here; basically it rains too much.
However, the rain falls mostly at night, and America's wettest city
blazes with tropical blooms, set against a backdrop of rainbows.
Hilo has always been at the mercy of fire and water. Cataclysmic tsunami
killed 96 people in April 1946, and a further 61 in May 1960. Countless
lava flows have also threatened to engulf it; in 1881 Princess Ruth
summoned up all her spiritual power to halt one on the edge of town,
while in 1984 another flow stopped just eight miles short.
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