Hawaiian ILEC infrastructure and fire

Thu Aug 17 21:30:14 UTC 2023

The single road, or two road situation is extremely similar to what is
happening right now in some parts of canada, with massive forest fires in
the northwest territories, cutting off Yellowknife and rural communities.
If the fiber is built along the one road that exists, and that one road
gets overwhelmed by Forest fire, game over.

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023, 12:51 AM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 6:43 PM scott via NANOG <nanog at 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
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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