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

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[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 60 points 11 months 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 13 points 11 months 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.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For anyone interested in giving aid, or who needs aid, I found this Maui disaster coordination spreadsheet shared on mastodon. There's both on-island resources and places to donate online listed.

#maui #disasterrelief #aid

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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