Josh Green: “We were very present, and I think pretty competent and compassionate in our response, and we heard from a lot of people…”

Four major disasters in six months have caused extraordinary damage across our state and made clear that recovery and resilience must move forward together.

The mayors are all working together and supporting one another and we’re going to continue doing everything we can to help people recover.

State, county, utility and emergency personnel are working around the clock, but the scale and urgency of these impacts exceed what Hawaiʻi can address alone.

We cannot wait for every damaged road, utility pole, harbor and public facility to be assigned a dollar value before asking the federal government to act.