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Hawaiian Electric Crews Begin Arriving

TL;DR

KITV and Hawaii News Now file HECO crews heading to Kauai. Arriving is not a finished north.

MSM Perspective

KITV files crews heading over. Arriving is Thursday's word, not done, and not Friday's 73.

X Perspective

Island feeds treat extra trucks as a recovered grid.

Hawaiian Electric crews began heading to Kauai to help KIUC after Lowell. [1] KITV filed the mutual-aid movement. [1] Hawaii News Now filed later-Thursday restoration beside arriving help. [2] Arriving is not finished. Trucks on a barge calendar are not a lit Hanalei. Print arriving. Do not print done.

This paper already printed morning 25 percent and later-Thursday half. Extra crews do not convert those clocks into a recovered island. Do not spend a later restore percentage that belongs to a later edition.

Print arriving. Print still dark north. Crews arrive by plane and ferry; poles rise one at a time. Thursday's arrivals are the first wave.
Mutual aid on a shoulder is still not Hanalei and not a finished north.
Thursday is not a finished north.

Extra crews change the slope of restoration, not its order: hospitals, water, density, then the north. Thursday's arrivals steepen the curve. Hanalei still waits at its end.

First waves crest; more follow. Thursday's wave is first. Hanalei watches the horizon.

Thursday's first wave steepens the curve. Hospitals and water first. The north is not finished. Mutual aid is still not Hanalei lit.

Hawaiian Electric's first wave is on the water and in the air, which steepens a curve it does not finish. Morning 25 and later-Thursday half still leave the north dark. Barges do not equal Hanalei. Help on the water is still work, not light.
Barges do not equal Hanalei. Hanalei is not lit. The north stays dark.

Hanalei is not lit. The north stays dark. Morning 25 still leaves the north dark.

Hanalei is not lit. The north stays dark. Thursday's HECO arrival still leaves the north dark at 25 percent.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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