When I left for yoga last Tuesday, another tree had fallen across the road. Just like the last time, it didn’t block the road only because it landed on the line that carries all the phone and data up the mountain. If the line were to break, it would disconnect all the phones and most everybody’s internet up the mountain, and block the only road that allows ingress and egress for us all.
Last time, HA and I ended up cutting up the tree and getting it out of the road, though the trunk sat by the roadside for several months before the county moved it. This time, by the time I was returning from yoga, county highway department personnel were on the scene waiting for a Hawaiian Telcom truck. Once the truck arrived to protect the cable (I’d done it with a 2x6), the tree was dispatched in no time.
It’s just a reminder of how precarious our infrastructure is up here.
—2p