I'm familiar with the island, it's it's puzzling that the major 3 cell carriers would accept a single point of failure like that, you would think they had microwave backup at minimum. Maybe it was a generator issue.
I'm sure a few cells burned but there are over ten on the west side so they didn't all burn. Feet on the ground are reporting they brought in at least a few COWS (cellular on wheels/portable cell site trucks) On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 12:53 AM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 6:43 PM scott via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > Last, it's an island and diverse paths are > > short in number. > > To put it into perspective: there are exactly TWO roads that can get > you from Lahaina back to Kahului and the airport. One of them is a > narrow, cliff-hugging single lane road that is more or less paved. > > Though I am curious about the Paniolo cable landing in Lahaina. Did it > survive? HICS and HIFN land in Kihei instead, right? > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ >
