Most of Kauai is still dark days after the hurricane, a rough situation for residents and businesses with no firm date for power coming back.

• About 90% of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative's customers are still without power, with only a few hundred restored so far near the Port Allen plant.
• Crews used helicopters, drones, and ground teams to survey every transmission line and now know what needs fixing.
• Repairs are focused first on transmission poles and lines, which must work before neighborhood circuits can be switched back on.
• Line crews from Hawaiian Electric are arriving to speed up the work, along with other partners.
• The utility says its steel poles, tree trimming, and wildfire hardening likely limited worse damage, but calls 90% out a bad outcome.

Outlook: No firm timeline, but the utility hopes to start bringing individual neighborhoods back by the end of the week, starting with the airport, port, and government offices.