Kauai's Emergency Operations Center marked a moment of silence on Friday for September 11 and for Iniki's 34th anniversary while recovery from Lowell continued. [1] KHON2 filed KEMA Director Elton Ushio calling it a day to reflect and to focus on the task ahead. [1] A silence is not a restore percentage. Print the silence. Do not print a recovered north.

This paper printed Kawakami's comparison and seventy-three percent. The EOC's minute is civic copy. The utility's 9,000 dark is the adjoining life page. Keep them separate.

Friday recap that treats a silence as the grid finished is a feed, not KHON2. Print the minute. Leave later percentages to later editions.

Friday is not a recovered grid.
The EOC's minute remains a minute.
Moments of silence punctuate disaster weeks, giving crews and cameras a shared pause. The EOC's minute honors effort, not outcome. The grid remains the story.

Shared pauses end; crews resume. Friday's minute passes. The grid's story continues.

Continuing grids continue after minutes; Friday's continues. Honor is effort. Outcome waits on percentages.

The EOC's minute honors effort, not outcome. Crews and cameras share a pause. The grid remains the story.

Kauai's Emergency Operations Center kept a Friday minute for September 11 and Iniki. That civic pause does not restore the north. KHON2 filed Elton Ushio asking crews to reflect, then return to work. More than 9,000 still sit on the life page as dark.
More than 9,000 stay dark. The grid remains the story. Crews and cameras share a pause.

More than 9,000 stay dark. The grid remains the story. Crews and cameras share a pause.

-- DARA OSEI, London