The average American only remembers the first hysterical headline. With the attention span of a gnat they never follow up to make the connection between fiction and reality. Good thing they graduated from college.
There have been at least 3 hurricanes that started in the same area and went back and forth from intensifying hurricane to tropical storm several times before they fizzled out in the central Pacific so far this summer. The fires in Maui were stirred by winds from the remnants of Hurricane Dora as it moved north of Hawaii