Kokee sat in the county's Sunday dark pockets with the North Shore. [1] The county's 12:15 p.m. update named the uplands among areas still waiting. [1] Monday's 81 percent names the island's restored share, not the ridge. Hawaii News Now's Monday file puts some North Shore restorations days away. [2]
An upland wait is not a recovered park. Percentages describe KIUC's whole system; Kokee's poles stand in the mountains, last in every island restoration order since Iniki. No county sentence says the ridge is lit.
Island accounts read 81 percent as everybody. The county's pocket list says otherwise. Kokee waits with Hanalei, on the county's clock, not the percentage's. The state park's cabins and the Kalalau trailhead run on the same upland feeders, so a lit Lihue does not reach the ridge. Restoration order puts hospitals and water pumps first, dense Lihue second, and the mountains last by design.
Upland feeders run through terrain where many poles need helicopter access, which is why Kokee restores last in every storm. The crews know the sequence by heart. The ridge waits its turn, as always.
The crews know the sequence by heart. Helicopter poles put Kokee last. The ridge waits its turn.
Monday's 81 percent does not light the ridge. Hospitals and Lihue come first. Kokee waits on helicopter poles.
Upland feeders run where trucks cannot. An 81 percent island restore still leaves the park dark. Restoration order is hospitals, Lihue, then mountains.
Upland feeders run where trucks cannot. Kokee waits on helicopter poles. The park stays dark at 81 percent.
Upland feeders run where trucks cannot. Kokee waits on helicopter poles. The park stays dark at 81 percent.
-- DARA OSEI, London