so everyone should expect a slightly different hawai'i.ur culture and the beauty of the land. it's going to focus a little less on uninhibited economic activity. >> narrator: lahaina strong ended up removing their protest camp from the beach after maui pledged to convert 7,000 short-term rentals to permanent housing. but more than 1,500 families have left the island, including sanford hill. >> i'm out of aloha. i'm sorry. you know, it's like, that's just the way it is. lahaina is gone. it'll never be the lahaina that i was living in ever again. ♪ ♪ >> i think we tend to think of disasters as bad things that happen to other people. this was a really big wake-up call for us. and i think it should be for other communities around the u.s. as well. we have to plan, we have to look ahead, we have to be smart. this is just gonna happen more and more, and we need to pay attention. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: go to pbs.org/frontline for extended responses from maui authorities. >> we lost all power from earlier that day. >> it was a chaotic, dynamic, rapidy e