Officials: Power fully restored, roads reopened on Hawaii Island

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Several Hawaii Island communities are seeing improvements just in time for Christmas, after a powerful winter storm barreled over the state with strong winds and torrential rains.

All roads affected by the Kona Low weather earlier this week are back open after more than a dozen were at least partially closed.

And Hawaiian Electric said it has fully restored power Saturday to Hamakua customers who were knocked offline.

Crews worked through the night to fully complete the repairs for those in Waipio Valley and parts of Honokaa Saturday morning.

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Officials said HECO restored power to 392 customers in Ahualoa and 245 customers in the Waipio Valley Road-Honokaa area early Friday.

The county also closed the emergency shelter at the Honokaa Sports Complex at 7 p.m. Friday.

HECO said customers still without power should call the company’s Trouble Line at (808) 969-6666.

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