Hawaiian Electric, Southern California Edison, and contractors were in the county's Sunday mutual-aid note, with about 100 extra people bringing the field total near 250. [1] Hawaii News Now's Monday file had KIUC at 81 percent restored, with some North Shore restorations still days away. [2] This paper printed that 81 percent on the fold. Arriving is not finished.

Trucks on a C-17 are not a lit Hanalei. Sunday's remainder of about 7,000 dark was yesterday's county word. Monday's 81 percent is a different clock. Mutual-aid can sit on a shoulder while the north stays dark. FEMA asks from earlier in the week are still asks, not a finished grid.

Percentages climb while trucks roll, and the two tell different stories: one of scope, one of effort. Kauai needs both numbers to reach 100. Monday has one in hand and the other in motion.

Field totals near 250 against tens of thousands of meters work out to hundreds of customers per worker. That ratio explains both the speed and the wait. Mutual aid scales effort, not geography.

Percentages climb while trucks roll. Field totals near 250 against tens of thousands of meters. Mutual aid scales effort, not geography.

Eighty-one percent is Monday's Kauai figure, already on the fold. Field totals near 250 still leave thousands of meters dark. Extra mainland crews raise the field count, not the northern lights. The north does not light from a percentage.
The north does not light from 81 percent. Mutual aid scales effort, not geography. Eighty-one percent is already on the fold.

Mutual aid scales effort, not geography. Eighty-one percent is already on the fold. Monday's north still does not light from 81 percent.

-- DARA OSEI, London