Power is nearly back across Hawaii Island two weeks after Hurricane Lala, good news for most residents but still a hardship for the last few hundred homes in the dark.

• Fewer than 400 customers on Hawaii Island are still without electricity.
• Another thousand families got their power back over the past day.
• Crews spent the day repairing a transmission line serving the Ka'u district.
• More than a dozen new poles are going up to finish the job.

Outlook: The remaining outages are scattered and hard to reach, so full restoration should come within days rather than weeks.