To the Editor:

Re “‘This Storm Is a Beast,’ Then Silence” (Op-Ed, Sept. 5):

Erica Moiah James’s Op-Ed has broken my heart as a Homestead, Fla., survivor of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 . The sound of the wind and the devastation and isolation we felt were once again brought to my consciousness.

“What can I do to help?” was my first thought at the end of the article. These are our neighbors, and their beautiful islands are places I have enjoyed for many years. Keep the story alive with more reporting about their plight.

Dana Greenberg

Redland, Fla.

To the Editor:

Re “Erroneous Claim by Trump and the Map to Back It Up” (news article, Sept. 5):

I know how hard it is to admit when we’ve made a mistake. It’s embarrassing, and at times can be damaging to a relationship or a career, but admitting a mistake is obviously the right thing to do.

There are, however, people who can never admit making a mistake or being wrong, and at the head of that list is Donald J. Trump. His most recent blunder, saying that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian, when all the weather services said it was not, could have been simply a misstatement or a misunderstanding. But the new forecaster-in-chief insisted that he was right, going so far as to show a Sharpie-altered weather map of Dorian’s path to include Alabama.