03-10-2021, 05:28 PM
We had a seven hour plus power failure in central HPP last night. A huge tree, likely albezia, took out the main line at Paradise and 17th, and it took them two hours just to get enough of the tree out of the way for HELCO to get to the breech and start working. Those poor guys then had to work for hours in a driving downpour, but they fixed it. There was little wind at the time, so I guess all the rain weighed the tree down and softened what little soil it had around its roots. It happened during dinner hour for us, and the German expletives went flying from the Frau.