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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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TL;DR

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.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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