Usually, when the words “wind” and “power” appear in the same sentence, visions of wind-farm turbines come to mind. This past weekend, though, it was all about high winds wreaking havoc with power outages across Hawaii’s island chain.

Wind gusts were clocked at up to 84 mph, and on Oahu, 100-plus separate outages over a 24-hour period affected some 100,000 residents.

Lanai seemed hardest hit, with all 1,700 electricity customers on that island going without power in an extended outage, due to 19 damaged or snapped utility poles. Lanai High & Elementary School was closed Monday, and one can only imagine the inconvenience to the well-heeled visitors at the resorts of the privately owned island. Talk about roughing it.

Waiting for what comes after Women’s March

President Donald Trump is right about one thing: Social media is a great way to reach a lot of people. When Teresa Shook, a Hana, Maui resident, reached out on Facebook the day after the Nov. 8 election, she helped spark a Women’s March event that sent many thousands of people around the world into the streets on Jan. 21 to protest against Trump.

What happens next? Hard to say. Other massive protests fueled by social media, like Occupy Wall Street, seemed to fizzle out. Then again, the 1960s civil rights movement didn’t require Facebook; it just needed passionate people with a noble cause and enough persistence to change the world.