Star-Advertiser put more than 50,000 customers in the dark on Kauai and Oahu. [1] Keep the islands. Kauai's 90 percent is the co-op hurricane product. Oahu's customers are not that 90. Print the split. Do not merge the grids.

Yesterday Oahu sat under a tropical storm warning. Today Kauai is the story. Leave Wednesday's 84 to Wednesday. Print Oahu separate. Print Kauai's 90.

Print the split. Tuesday is not one island. Fifty thousand-plus is a combined count, not Kauai's 90. Keep Oahu off the co-op hurricane product. Print the split as the named Tuesday hold. Hawaiian Electric's Oahu customers are not KIUC's 90. Print two islands as the named Tuesday hold. A tropical storm warning yesterday is still not Kauai's 90.

Two islands, two grids, two utilities: HECO's Oahu and KIUC's Kauai share weather, nothing else. Combined counts confuse both. Tuesday splits them.

Combined counts serve headlines; split counts serve the islands. Fifty thousand-plus spans two grids. Tuesday unbundles them.

Unbundled counts clarify; Tuesday unbundles. Clarity serves islands. Headlines keep combining.

Power does not jump the channel between islands. Hawaiian Electric's dark customers on Oahu are a different machine from KIUC's 90 percent. Crews cannot restore a co-op by fixing a Honolulu feeder.

Oahu's Hawaiian Electric outages are not KIUC's 90 percent. Power does not jump the channel. Tuesday keeps the islands unbundled.

Honolulu feeders cannot rewire KIUC. Tuesday unbundles the islands. A 90 percent Kauai outage is not an Oahu story.

Honolulu feeders cannot rewire KIUC. Power does not jump the channel. Tuesday keeps Oahu and Kauai unbundled.

Honolulu feeders cannot rewire KIUC. Power does not jump the channel. Tuesday keeps Oahu and Kauai unbundled.

-- KENJI NAKAMURA, Tokyo