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Oprah Winfrey didn’t refuse to open her private road for Hawaii evacuees during the tsunami warnings
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast caused tsunami warnings in Hawaii and across the Pacific, social media attention turned to Hawaii property owner and media magnate Oprah Winfrey.
But Winfrey did not make evacuations harder for Maui residents, contrary to social media claims.
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