09-30-2017, 06:00 AM
It was a crew from Maui that restored power in our section of HPP after Iselle, so there is some history of outside help. Iselle, although certainly an epic event for Puna, was small potatoes in terms of both its severity and the size of the area affected. A more severe storm or one that affected more than just one corner of one island would easily result in Puerto Rico-like hopelessness. Getting electric crews to Hawaii from the West Coast would be fairly easy compared to the logistics of transporting the equipment necessary for them to do much good.