An ʻohana in Kamuela,
ready to rebuild.

A multi-generational family of 2 in Kamuela, Hawaiʻi Island is rebuilding from inside their damaged home after the 2026 floods tore through their roof and worked their way deep into the walls, floors, and ceilings below. For more than two decades, she has kept this home standing — paying her insurance faithfully, year after year, never missing a payment and never once filing a claim. Tucked in the upcountry quiet of Kamuela, this is not just a house. It is the place her ʻohana has gathered, the land her family has tended, the roof she has fought to keep over their heads through every season. Then the storm came. Water breached the roof and did not stop. It crept into the attic, soaked through the walls, warped the floors, and left the ceilings stained and sagging. What the flood started, the moisture finished — and now black mold has taken hold inside the home where she and her family still live every day. She filed a claim with the insurance company she had trusted for over 20 years. They denied her. She applied for a loan to fund the repairs herself. She was turned away. Every door she knocked on gave her the same answer, and yet she had nowhere else to go. She is not in temporary housing waiting to return — she is already there, breathing in what the flood left behind, trying to hold life together inside a home that is slowly making her family sick. What makes her situation especially painful is not just the damage or the debt or the denials. It is the betrayal of a system she believed in. Twenty years of loyalty. Twenty years of doing everything right. And when the moment came that she finally needed help, she was left standing alone. She came to Ohana Restore not with demands, but with quiet, exhausted hope — for her ʻohana, for the home they have always known, and for the simple peace of being able to breathe safely under their own roof again.