Originally reported by The Maui News on March 22nd, 2009
Wanted to pass along a short article from The Maui News about a closure to the Road to Hana over the weekend.
Mudslide Closes Part of Highway for Five Hours
You see those signs along highways all over the island of Maui. They say things like “Falling Rocks” and other cautionary messages that ask you to stay aware while driving to and from your destination. Well, they are there for a good reason. There was a mudslide near mile marker 21 about 13 miles north of Hana over the weekend that closed the roadway for 5 hours in both directions. Be sure to checkout the article link above for a picture of the mudslide before crews arrived at the scene and the rest of the story details.
Luckily no motorists were in the immediate vicinity at the time of the mudslide and no injuries were reported.
Road Closure Notifications
Seeing that something like this incident could certainly cause you to alter your plans for a day of sightseeing on Maui, I thought I’d pass on another tip for you. Did you know that the County of Maui website has an alert system for these and many other types of road closures across the island? You can even sign up for email alerts, which are ultra handy if you’re traveling with a smartphone that has email capabilities.
To learn more about Road Report Notifications, visit this page at the county’s website for more details on how to sign up for alerts. During the time we were visiting Maui on our last trip, I received 11 email alerts in just a two week period. While only 2 of those ended up to be relevant to the area of the island we were visiting that day, they were still nice to have.
Now that we’re back home on the mainland, I still have the alerts setup just for informative purposes. It also gives me a good feel for what types of traffic and other road mishaps occur every now and then on Maui, sort of as a change of pace to the traffic headaches we have here in the Chicagoland area.
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