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Kauai Small Businesses Ask Tourists to Return After Hurricane Lowell, with Aloha and some Patience – WTOP News

Small businesses say prolonged cancellations are forcing layoffs and closures as officials urge visitors to spend locally and help recovery.

Watching her staff happily hand out free meals for hundreds of residents outside their Wailua commercial kitchen, food truck co-owner Kelly Kakalia felt fulfilled. It was the day after Hurricane Lowell finished knocking out power, washing out roads and felling trees across Kauai, and Kakalia was focused on her community, not sales. The island where...

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KHON2 broke the news in Honolulu, United States on Friday, September 18, 2026.
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