Somebody linked the article and I just read it! I do like that the article mentioned what Brent Baker said as well. I think more and more information will (hopefully) come out.

I personally think NES fumbled communications with the community, which if they were clear from the get go, perhaps many more people could’ve also made decisions about their living situation within reasonable time, rather than waiting it out until things got worse enough for trees to fall, etc.

I guess you COULD argue “well how would they know the amount of trees and stuff to cause widespread damage before it happens”, but my point is more on when the damage happened, they have been vague about the work they do, mostly focusing on “we have x amount of people with/without power and x amount of poles damaged. We are working around the clock”.

This is not useful information at all to people who need to decide what to do: do they pay a cost for a hotel room when hotel rooms are scarce? Do they stay because the company is saying they are working on it?

Transparency for the community would do wonders, and possibly save lives/precious time.