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Hawaiian Electric Crews Are Still Arriving

TL;DR

Kauai County files mutual-aid crews still arriving; arriving is not finished and 7,000 remain dark.

MSM Perspective

The county filed arriving crews. Sunday's 7,000 dark still leaves the North Shore waiting.

X Perspective

Island feeds treat extra trucks as a recovered grid.

Hawaiian Electric, Southern California Edison, and contractors were in the county's Sunday mutual-aid note, with extra people still arriving. [1] About 7,000 members remained dark. Arriving is not finished. Trucks on a C-17 are not a lit Hanalei. Print arriving. Do not print done. No county sentence that mutual-aid has finished the North Shore is in Sunday copy.

Mutual-aid trucks can sit on a shoulder and 7,000 can still be dark. Arriving is the county's word, not finished.
No finished-North-Shore sentence is in Sunday's county copy, so arriving remains the crew word.
Sunday's wires carry no finished north; the desk leaves the line where it found it.
Sunday is not a finished north.
Crews remain arriving, not finished on the North Shore.
Mutual-aid crews fly in on military transports because commercial freight can't move fast enough after a storm. Sunday's arrivals join a field already in the hundreds. Each truck is a promise the grid hasn't kept yet.

Unkept promises pile; Sunday's pile. Piling is the update. Trucks keep arriving.

Island cooperatives call for mutual aid when their own roster cannot climb every pole at once. Sunday's note still uses arriving because the work outruns the people already on the ground. Trucks off a C-17 are manpower, not energized miles.

Sunday still has about 7,000 dark. C-17 trucks are manpower, not energized miles. Mutual aid arrives because KIUC cannot climb every pole at once.

About 7,000 meters stay dark on Sunday. Trucks off a C-17 are crews, not restored feeders. Mutual aid is bodies, not miles.

About 7,000 meters stay dark on Sunday. Mutual aid is bodies, not miles. C-17 trucks are manpower, not energized miles.

-- DARA OSEI, London

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