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Green Puts Kauai Damage Above Four Hundred Million

A darkened island road with a visiting motorcade and downed poles
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TL;DR

Hawaii News Now files Green's $400 million line while 84 percent of the island is still dark. A dollar sign is not a recovered grid.

MSM Perspective

Hawaii News Now files the governor's dollar figure and the 84 percent still out. An ask is not a FEMA number.

X Perspective

Local feeds treat restoration as underway while the co-op still counts a black island.

Governor Josh Green visited Kauai on Wednesday and put hurricane damage above $400 million, with roughly 84 percent of the island still without power. [1] Tuesday this paper printed a sideswipe that took the lights. Wednesday the lights are a restoration problem with a dollar sign.

Hawaii News Now recorded the White House/FEMA ask and the promise of mutual aid. [1] A request is not a declaration. 84 percent dark is still the operating number. Print it as Green's, not a merged co-op ledger. North Shore waits. A hospital coming online is a separate sentence from houses.

Later copy that a quarter had power belongs in a companion if the timestamp is still the 9th. It is not this visit clock. Do not spend a later restore percentage that belongs to a later edition.

Print the visit. Print $400 million. Print 84 percent dark. Do not print a recovered Kauai.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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