Mayor Derek Kawakami said Lowell did less overall damage than Iniki while still naming surge in Poipu, Port Allen, and Kekaha. [1] KHON2 filed the reflection on Friday. [1] This paper printed seventy-three percent. Less than Iniki is not a recovered island. Print the comparison. Do not print an all-clear.

A mayor's sentence is a mayor's sentence. It is not a FEMA number. It is not a lit Hanalei. The North Shore wait remains the utility's wait. Print Kawakami. Leave a later restore percentage to the edition that owns one.

Friday recap that treats a comparison as the storm being over is a feed, not KHON2. Print less-than-Iniki as the mayor's word. Do not invent a finished north.

Saturday can recap; Friday prints the comparison.
Mayoral comparisons calm more than they inform; 'less than Iniki' is reassurance with a death toll attached. Kauai measures every storm against 1992. Lowell, by that yardstick, still counts.

Yardsticks comfort; tolls sober. Friday holds both. Lowell counts by Iniki's measure.

Iniki's 1992 yardstick still measures Lowell; Friday prints the comparison. Less than Iniki is reassurance with a death toll. The north is not finished.

Kawakami ranked Lowell below 1992 and still listed Poipu, Port Allen, and Kekaha. Ranking is not an all-clear for the north. Seventy-three percent belongs on the restore page, outside his quote. KHON2 logged a reflection, not a repaired island.
Poipu, Port Allen, and Kekaha are a list, not the north. Friday prints a ranking, not an all-clear. KHON2 logged a reflection.

Friday prints a ranking, not an all-clear. KHON2 logged a reflection. Friday prints a ranking, not a repaired island.

-- MAYA CALLOWAY, New York