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After the strongest storm in a generation, Hawai’i residents take recovery into their own hands – in pictures
On Kaua‘i, neighbors repair each other’s roofs, teens deliver meals and locals use their own equipment to clear roads It was a few hours after the sun rose over the verdant valleys and clear waters of Hā‘ena on Kaua‘i’s North Shore. Michael Olanolan was already in his excavator, clearing the main highway where a wall of fallen trees had blocked access. Other neighbors joined him, moving debris so electric crews could reach utility poles downed by Hurricane Lowell. The 76-year-old father of nine…
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