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Kauai Restores Seventy-Three Percent After Lowell

A lit downtown street ending in a still-dark north valley
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TL;DR

Star-Advertiser files 73 percent on, more than 9,000 still dark, on Iniki's calendar date.

MSM Perspective

Star-Advertiser files 73 percent restored and a North Shore wait that is still weeks.

X Perspective

Island feeds treat 73 percent as the storm being over.

KIUC said about 73 percent of members had power Friday, with more than 9,000 still dark. [1] Thursday this paper printed a first quarter restored. Friday the percentage moved. The North Shore did not.

The date is also Iniki's 34th anniversary. [1] A calendar rhyme is not an impact survey. Mayor Kawakami said Lowell did less overall damage than Iniki and still named surge in Poipu, Port Allen, Kekaha. [1] That comparison belongs beside the calendar, not as a recovered island.

Print 73 percent. Print more than 9,000 dark. Do not print a recovered north. Later percentages belong to later editions. Friday's clock stops at 73 and at the named wait.

A hurricane recovery that still leaves thousands dark is still in progress. Mutual-aid arriving is not finished. Green's federal ask is not a FEMA number. Print the utility. Leave a lit coast to the edition that owns a lit coast.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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