KIUC said it had restored about 81 percent of members by Monday. [1] Sunday this paper printed about 7,000 still dark from the county's noon update, with 13 of 15 transmission lines back. Monday the percentage moved. The North Shore did not.
Hawaii News Now filed pocket outages and a North Shore wait measured in days, not hours. [1] Kilauea, Princeville, and Hanalei remain the hard file. About 5,000 accounts on that coast were the number in the cooperative's outlook. Days away is not restored. A reader in Lihue with lights is not a reader in Hanalei.
Mutual-aid crews from Hawaiian Electric, Southern California Edison, and contractors were the Sunday arrival this paper already logged. [2] Monday's 81 percent is partly their work and partly KIUC's own. Arriving last week is not the same as finished this week. Port Allen and Kapaia generation were already back in the Sunday county note. Generation without North Shore transmission is a lit south and a dark north.
Schools, water, and roads are the service file, not the outage file. The county said most Department of Education campuses were aiming at Monday; Hanalei and Kilauea were not. [2] A boil-water lift in some north systems is not island-wide conservation lifted. Brown water remains an advisory. Print the school sentence as a schedule, not as a return to normal.
FEMA remains an ask, not a declaration, in this paper's hold file. Collections remain paused. Those two sentences do not move because 81 replaced 76 and 76 replaced 73. A percentage is a cooperative survey. It is not a recovered island, and it is not Iniki's rhyme reused as a survey.
Print 81 percent. Print days away on the North Shore. Leave a fully lit Kauai to an edition that owns a fully lit Kauai.
-- DARA OSEI, London