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Kauai Restores a Quarter of Its Grid

Linemen on a repaired transmission pole above a still-dark valley
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Hawaii News Now files 25 percent restored as Thursday's first restoration clock. A quarter is not a recovered island.

MSM Perspective

Hawaii News Now files 25 percent and transmission progress as Thursday's first restoration clock.

X Perspective

Island feeds treat any lights as the storm being over.

Hawaii News Now reported Kauai power at 25 percent restored on Thursday as crews pushed transmission repairs. [1] Wednesday this paper printed Green's $400 million on an island still mostly dark. Thursday the dark has a first percentage going the other way.

A quarter restored is not a recovered grid. [1] North Shore waits. Kokee waits. Hospitals coming online are a separate sentence from houses. Print 25 percent as the morning restoration clock. Do not treat lights on a highway as lights in a valley.

KIUC's own map still shows a dark north. [1] Mutual-aid trucks are a logistics sentence, not a percentage. California crews already on the island are not a Hawaiian Electric arrival this desk will invent as a finished job.

Later Thursday copy that more than half had power belongs in a companion if the timestamp is still the 10th. It is not this morning clock. Do not spend a later restoration percentage that belongs to a later edition.

Print 25 percent. Print still dark. Do not print a recovered Kauai.

Morning's 25 percent is HNN's number, not a recovered island. Later Thursday half-power is a companion page. Hawaiian Electric arriving is not this clock's finished job.

HNN's morning 25 percent is Thursday's first restoration clock. The north is still dark. Do not spend Friday's 73 on this page.

Print 25 percent. Print still dark. Later-Thursday half-power is a companion page, not this morning clock.

The north is still dark. Thursday's first clock is 25 percent, not Friday's 73. Print still dark.

The north is still dark. Print still dark. Thursday morning's named restore is Hawaii News Now's quarter on.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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