A Lahaina resident talks about the recovery efforts after a wildfire swept through the Maui town.

  • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Maui is cut off. No internet. Very sparce landlines service. No cellphones. Electricity is down. Because of that probably water too. Still have radio communications and some satellite stuff. The calvary hasn’t arrived yet. Winds at 35mph. Given all this it is not hard to understand that we don’t know the full extent yet.

    • CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Lahaina is fucked, not all of Maui. Power went down for all of Lahaina, Ka’anapali, Napili, and Kapalua on Tuesday (8/8/23) morning. All those towns are connected with a single road back to the rest of Maui, and Tuesday morning at 5a-ish, something like 30 telephone/power poles fell on that road and blocked up traffic in and out. There was a fire Tuesday morning, then the fire department said it was 100% contained in the afternoon and everyone let their guard down. Once the fire sparked back up later that night, all hell broke loose.

      The rest of Maui has power and internet without issues. I didn’t even lose power or Internet at all on the other side of the island.