Moloka‘i households will lose power for several days of planned grid work, and the state is offering replacement food aid to cover spoiled groceries.

• Hawaiian Electric crews are replacing power lines along East Kamehameha V Highway, with outages running daytime hours from Tuesday through Thursday.
• The work is meant to toughen the grid and cut wildfire risk after recent storm-related outages.
• Affected households can apply for replacement SNAP food benefits for food lost to the outages.
• Families on food aid take the hardest hit from outages, since a few warm hours can ruin a month of groceries.

Outlook: Power should be restored after Thursday's work wraps, with more grid-hardening projects likely across the islands.