Another downpour, another power outage in the Ainakoa neighborhood at the kokohead end of the H-1 freeway. That makes four blackouts in the past 16 days, and we have to wonder what makes rain such a challenge for Hawaiian Electric Company these days.
The challenge of communicating about the outage was overcome this time by KSSK and HECO, however -- a big contrast to the news blackout on November 5th. The outage began at 5 a.m., we called it in by 5:03 and KSSK’s first report was at 5:20.
A report 20 minutes later quoted a HECO spokesperson and said the outage was affecting about 200 homes in Ainakoa. This also was a refreshing change in that we heard nothing from HECO on the designated emergency broadcast station on November 5th.
KSSK said traffic lights at Kalanianaole Highway and Ainakoa weren’t working and repeated the outage and power report at 6 o’clock, just when the lights came back on.
We hope HECO figures out what’s causing these multiple outages, but we have to commend Hawaiian Electric and KSSK for telling affected listeners they were aware of the problem and that somebody was trying to fix it.
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Power outages are really frustrating for everyone because they disrupt our daily lives. We are so dependent on electricity to function.
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