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KIUC Prints a 90 Percent Outage

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Star-Advertiser files more than 50,000 in the dark and KIUC's 90 percent. Ninety is not a landfall. Leave Wednesday's 84 and $400 million to Wednesday.

MSM Perspective

Star-Advertiser files 50,000-plus. The lead already named 90 percent. This page holds the co-op count.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a co-op number as already a recovered island.

KIUC counted roughly 90 percent of members without power after Lowell's sideswipe. [1] Star-Advertiser filed more than 50,000 customers dark on Kauai and Oahu. [1] This paper already printed the sideswipe that took the lights. Ninety percent is a co-op count. It is not a landfall. Print 90. Do not print a recovered Kauai.

Oahu's customers in the dark are not Kauai's 90. Keep the islands. Leave Wednesday's 84 percent and a governor's later dollar figure to Wednesday. A few hundred restored in pockets does not lift the 90.

Print 90 percent. Tuesday is not Wednesday's restore clock. A sideswipe is still not a landfall. Keep Kauai's co-op number off Oahu's customers. Print 90 as the named Tuesday hold. Fifty thousand-plus is Star-Advertiser's combined count, not a landfall.

Ninety percent dark with a sideswipe, not a landfall: the distinction matters for grid geometry. A miss still downs lines. Tuesday's number describes damage, not trajectory.

Damage, not trajectory: Tuesday's number describes the first. Descriptions hold. Geometry explains.

Geometry explains a sideswipe; Tuesday's 90 percent describes lines down. Eleele is a pocket. The island is not restored.

A miss still downs lines. Tuesday's number is damage, not trajectory. Ninety percent dark.

Lowell's sideswipe left the co-op counting members in the dark. Combined Star-Advertiser totals mix two islands this page will keep apart. Geometry of a miss still explains downed feeders. Island restore is not the Tuesday share.
Tuesday's share is still ninety percent dark. Eleele's pocket is not an island restore. Island restore is not the Tuesday share.

Tuesday's share is still ninety percent dark. Eleele's pocket is not an island restore. Island restore is not the Tuesday share.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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