I was almost convinced this was a thing and looked it up to find out without specifying "music", and it turns out that a lot of the drilling companies that specialise in drill and blast have very metal sounding names lol
@@bosstowndynamics5488 I do a lot of diamond drilling in quarries and mines, I see drilling and blasting (completely different drilling process to what I do) almost every day. Pretty much it comes down to drilling a bunch of holes with usually a hammer drill of some type, and packing them full of explosives (the blast part). Yeah, a lot of them have names that could also be band names..and some guys have too much fun with the blasting part.
If I ever somehow make my way back to that state, I’m definitely seeing this for myself. (Car rental prices are probably expensive there compared to here but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.)
@@DiamondKingStudios You'll cross that bridge when you get there... H3 has two long viaducts... so you literally will cross that bridge when you get there! 😉
I drove on this a couple times when I was there for vacation about 10 years ago. Beautiful drive. The tunnel was a little disconcerting the first time I went through it. With the elevation change and some curves, you can't see the other side. It was my first time driving through a tunnel like that.
Don't need 10 years. The rail (skyline) is already well known for being incredibly expensive. Seen the development of it since it was first proposed and it is only part way finished.
I really want to know what Sam thinks about the rail. Has been in the works for over 10 years and opened only recently. But the sections that are open are between places that no one really goes to. It's between the aloha stadium (which closed for renovation) and eastern kapolei. Not even to the area of kapolei with activity! The rail right now does not reach the airport nor anywhere in town. For me, I would need to take 2 buses just to get to the rail and then wherever it drops me off I'll still need to take another bus to get to where I'm going. Might as well take the one bus I've been taking. It's a disaster and i think it would be an interesting topic for this channel or wendover
I can't get over how perfect the drill and blast bit was. The first drill and blast moment in the last video had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video. Then this. The follow up to a classic is almost impossible, but you guys knocked it out of the park. To the editor who did that- kudos.
That cost is insane. I live in Colorado where I-70 basically cuts through the mountains in various places, and has a lot of crazy complexity. It's an absolute engineering marvel and the hardest driving in the US as far as interstates go. I'm not sure of the exact length, but I'd guess somewhere around 250 miles from Denver to Utah. Even in inflation dollars it was still less than 1 billion to build.
If I recall correctly, it's because it was built as part of public works programs. If it were actually built today it would cost some absolutely insane figure that it probably wouldn't get built at all.
@@benjaminchung991 ok I guess I was completely wrong or misremembering something I read a while back that suggested the tunnel alone would cost like $70 billion today. I looked it up and yeah, $1.5 billion is actually a surprisingly reasonable number given how insanely expensive public infrastructure projects normally end up being in the US, like the big dig tunnel project. If I recall correctly, the huge number I was thinking of was in the context of the possibility of adding a train line parallel to the highway through the continental divide and the cost of adding a new tunnel being so astronomical that it wasn't in the realm of possibility. The two lanes on each side is still a huge bottleneck during ski season but I doubt they'll ever widen it.
Happy to see this. I wrote a college paper around 16 years ago about Freeway Revolts and Environmentally friendly freeway constructions to get around Freeway Revolts. H-3 obviously made it into the paper. Along with things like the 710 Gap in Pasadena CA and I-70 west of Denver. I got a degree in urban and regional planning.
People in the comments somehow not understanding that “interstate” is just a name for federally funded highways and they do not have to be actually between states. There are lots of interstates in the continental US that stay within one state too.
The majority of the 1- or 2-digit interstates are at least planned to be in multiple states. Granted, part of that is made true by assigning the same number to two highways that aren't connected at all.
@@benoithudson7235 definitely not all of them are! There are quite a few that aren’t. There’s a list of them out there somewhere that I saw at one point.
H-3's kind of a weird one. Despite growing up on Oahu, I've been over it maybe four times in my life? To and from Urban Honolulu, the Pali and Likelike highways are generally more convenient. H-3 is a "nice" drive, I suppose, but that's about it. The price tag, the environmental/cultural damage, and the worker deaths make it hard to say it was all worth it.
I moved here in 2002 after it was done. I live on the West side and it really helps me to get to the Windward side without having to go thru town. I hike a lot so I’m all over the island. But if you live in the urban core then it’s not gonna help you much.
@@MrConverse Yeah, that makes sense. Looking at a map, it's easy to say, oh, Likelike is just a few valleys farther to go, but, of course, you're often fighting the worst traffic on H-1 to get to it from the West Side.
I’ve used H-3 many, many times. Especially going to the airport. With it, it’s possible to get from Kailua to the airport only having to go through a single traffic light in Kailua. It only takes 20 mins. from my house to the airport. Before H-3, you had to go through 8 traffic lights and had to go from the Pali Hwy. and change to H-1 (and through a lot of much heavier traffic). It took almost twice as long. It’s also very good for getting to the Pearl Harbor area (including Pearlridge Mall) and west Oahu. It also has one of the most beautiful views you’ll ever see when you exit the tunnel, windward bound (that view actually won an award).
Another fantastic entry into HAI's series of vids focusing on Hawaiian logistics and infrastructure! Also, kudos for being the first UA-camr to use the Spice Girls as a unit of measurement!
Thank you. I live and work in Honolulu. A lot of my managers and co-workers live in Kaneohe and drive to work when we are in office. I am grateful to live in my neighborhood my grandparents chose wisely and benefited my generation!
Having lived on the North Shore, H3 was nice to have. Traveled through it a lot and I knew people who used it every day to get to work on the other side of the island.
One addition. Up until 1997 the Navy and Coast Guard operated an OMEGA navigation station at Haiku, HI. This extremely powerful transmitting station was so close to H3 that it would energize the steel inside the tunnels and along the viaducts. Prior to opening the entire roadway of the leeward viaducts was removed and replaced with a built-in "Faraday Cage" to minimize danger to the public on H3. This was of course a HUGE cost overrun. The really corrupt part of this was that the OMEGA station was shut down BEFORE H3 ever opened. It just made a contractor or two a ton of free cash.
Managed an OMEGA site in Japan in the 1980s, it was mature technology but on its way out. Interesting story but yes stations needed a big buffer around them to keep from impacting local populace. OMEGA is a very low frequency (VLF) radio navigational. system operating in the internationally allocated navigation. band in the electromagnetic spectrum between 10 and 14. kilohertz
Sounds similar in cost and controversy to the plan to put the A303 in a tunnel past Stonehenge in the UK. Only ours never got built. And doesn't even have and Drill & Blast.
H3 is an absolutely beautiful road with part of it like driving through a rain forest. Nice to know the backstory but I wish I’d found the road paved with gold the times I was on it! I’ll pay more attention and be more appreciative next time. Aloha.
Even in the Netherlands, which is almost flatter than flat, you’re looking at anything from 32 to 320mln € per mile. And that’s pricing from 8 years ago, we all know what corona and inflation did over the last few years. 🤯
@@BlackbeardedPirate that's still ridiculous though, this HAS to be money laundering by contractors, how is sending stuff into space cheaper than building a highway? like fine it's not the simplest thing in the world but it is far from an engineering nightmare.
Space has a better cost per mile ratio I guess? As for the highway and can think of property buyouts, aquaducts, viaducts, ecoducts, railway crossings, environmental studies, lawsuits etc. It’s a very crowded country. This one highway, it took more than 2 years to lay the foundation over a stretch of 30 miles or so. Those were loads of sand hauled by those big mining trucks, I can only guess what the gas bill for something like that was.
A well-researched article delivered quickly in terms of view time. There were a lot of Geological studies, and the terrain is a challenging hike, and it’s a beautiful drive.
2:02 clearly the protesters climbed to the top of mauna loa to protest, because that's the only place in hawaii where coats and hats are even a thing. or, they're high AF on pineapple juice
To make it legal, it did have to connect to a special sekret phantom state that lies hidden along the path. You get to it, you have to find a cave with a phony barricade in front of it.
It’s not so unusual, really. There are way more interstate minors (three digits) that have their full length in a single state than actual inter-state interstates. And there’s even an interstate major (I-45) which is a fully intra-state interstate.
@@newprophet2011*was* a volcano. The island was formed over a volcanic hotspot, but drifted over millions of years and any volcanoes that once were are now extinct. The hotspot is now where the big island is; the volcanos there are still active.
@@boxsterman77 Considering that many mountains form from volcanism, especially at subduction zones and mid-ocean ridges or rift valleys, that would technically make those mountains all volcanoes by your definition.
Being born n raised here, I was taught that the H3 is “cursed” because it was built through sacred lands. Some of them were burial grounds with a lot of history. Even if you don’t believe in that type of stuff, you can’t deny it’s eerie how man incidents happen there, daily. Think just this month we’ve had 3-5 cars catch fire traveling over the H3. I know people that will travel all the way around to avoid using that road.
Should be adjusted for local cost of living, and/or sort of production cost adjustment. Hawaii is expensive in general, how much something is depends on cost of material and labor. $1 in hawaii is not necessarily more expensive than 90 cents somewhere else.
Hawaii's governor at the time of H-3's completion was Ben Cayetano. His first job after college was in the Hawaii State government. His first task on the job was to draft a feasibility study on the construction of H-3. He later steadily rose through the government bureaucracy and all the way into winning the governor election in the 1990s. Yet H-3 completed only when he became governor. From an entry-level employee to the governor. This will give everyone a little perspective on the length.
Coming from the Nebula version to thank you for the extended Drill and Blast Mix. For anyone who've only see the YT version, there's that benefit to Nebula ;D
I take offense about the video. It started when I was in High School and it opened after I got married late in life. Prior to H-3, driving over the Pali and Likelike is a long and tedious drive. Dangerous in some parts for drivers unaccustomed to the roads, congestion and weather, which being on a windward side of the island catches the majority of rainfall on any island. So anyone driving over a mountain, it is steep, narrow with winding roads. Factor in that the Marine Corp base which was in existence prior to WWII, is on that side, troop movement on the two heavily trafficked would be tedious going through civilian homes & businesses. A freeway for the military convoys is for National Defense/Security, which the bombing of Pearl Harbor was an example of trying to migrate troops back and forth over the mountain range or around either side of the island taking up time. My older brother worked on the H-3 in the early days. As for costs, there were Vietnam era anti-war protesters, anti environmental activists, native cultural practitioners, farmers, hunters, native Hawaiians protesting the project. There were massive engineering problems and discovering solutions impacting the project, all of which filed injunctions and lawsuits, delaying the project. During which time, the existing tunnels had nature cause enough destruction of landslides, downed trees from storms creating massive traffic jams blocking access to the Windward side for hours/days. It was finally completed, but people throughout the island travel over the H-3 daily, weekly, monthly. The military can transport their troops/equipment from the Marine base to the other bases as needed, and it's doubtful that even the former protestors of yesterday ever go the long routes via traveling on the Pali/Likelike/around the island, if they can get over faster via H-3. Just as people travel via the bridges/tunnels/railroads on any part of the world that was expensive to build, once it's done. They will use it. Infrastructure maintenance isn't paid out of their pockets of the protestor, it's the taxpayers, the same as the delays, taxpayers end up paying for it.
You can tell they had fun making this. Drill and Blast method is hilarious
I was almost convinced this was a thing and looked it up to find out without specifying "music", and it turns out that a lot of the drilling companies that specialise in drill and blast have very metal sounding names lol
@@bosstowndynamics5488 I do a lot of diamond drilling in quarries and mines, I see drilling and blasting (completely different drilling process to what I do) almost every day. Pretty much it comes down to drilling a bunch of holes with usually a hammer drill of some type, and packing them full of explosives (the blast part). Yeah, a lot of them have names that could also be band names..and some guys have too much fun with the blasting part.
HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH DRILL & BLAST
By talos this cant be happening
Pewubbb
5:45 is hands down the best moment in this video
Honorable mention 5:10
If you're 12 years old, yea.
Ah yes DnB: Drill n Blast
dumb
@@jdalbion"🤓🤓🤓"
RLL already taught me that everything in Hawaii is like 10 times the price it should be
When the two top comments on your new video are from the same guy talking about your rival channel 💀 big L for HAI
@@nealrigga6969 only dweebs like you care
@@jackblack704but yo mama cares too
@@nealrigga6969wait a min bro what on earth is your name 😭
Half the efficiency
7:44 when you said “…dinner?” my corgi woke up from his nap because he thought it was time for his dinner. You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.
That's just more content for HAI
That’s why I ask my dogs if they want to eat in Spanish 😂
@@andrewmorley5059 Different language need: When you try to teach one dog to come and the other one does.
I am with Gedd, Ouveur & Ydd. Please contact us for the settlement of 1.3 bln. That is as high as we can go.
@@andrewmorley5059now I’m imagining a dog being trained for dinner on the call “donde esta la biblioteca?”
Shout out to the editor who filmed that drill and blast skit, that's commitment 😂
oh ok cool
@@cwg73160 oh ok cool
I know he's a writer and may not edit but that seems like an Adam thing to do
Drill and Blast Method goes HARD
bro needs to drop the full album ASAP
track id?
Yo Sam drop that shit!!
Can we please get a full song of the Drill & Blast Method? It's an absolute heater 🔥
It would go incredibly hard at a festival, I bet you CrankDat would take it with the visual from the video and it would go WILD
@@Chetikians True lol, kinda wish he did more D&B
Idk if your a nebula subscriber or not, but there is an extended sequence of it at the end on nebula that gives a taste of what we really good have
its shit
@@choo_choo_ It's Dubstep; what did you expect?
I drove on H3 shortly after it opened. It had rained recently and there were so many waterfalls!! What an absolutely beautiful drive.
If I ever somehow make my way back to that state, I’m definitely seeing this for myself.
(Car rental prices are probably expensive there compared to here but I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.)
@@DiamondKingStudios You'll cross that bridge when you get there... H3 has two long viaducts... so you literally will cross that bridge when you get there! 😉
I drove on this a couple times when I was there for vacation about 10 years ago. Beautiful drive. The tunnel was a little disconcerting the first time I went through it. With the elevation change and some curves, you can't see the other side. It was my first time driving through a tunnel like that.
FR
@@colemanmoore9871 In my experience, you cant see the other side of most tunnels.
Drill and Blast is the new bricks video isn't it? Can't wait for the inevitable release.
5:45 we drilling and blasting out the tunnel with this one boys🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
What a coincidence, there’s this guy called Wendover Productions who also just did a video on Hawaii, maybe you guys can do a collab or something.
We absolutely need a full Drill & Blast track, just went back to watch the Faroe video from a couple months ago
I beg you Sam, we need this!!!
For real, that was fire
The nebula version has some Drill & Blast at the end where the sponsor segment would be.
5:42 - _Get some _*_"DRILL & BLAST"_*_ here!!!_
I am convinced that RLL and Sam from HAI live in the same house and release videos together 😂
Add in wendover productions
@@Austin101123no that’s a different guy
@@Austin101123isn’t that a completely different person with no relation to HAI whatsoever?
@@bababababababa6124is there a running joke about them being different people
@@60sebastian no they're different people also the wendover guy doesn't run
Oh boy I can’t wait for the “Why Hawaii’s Rail System so Expensvive” in 10 years
Oh maybe the section to the airport will be open by then 😒
“Why Hawaii is so Expensive”
Don't need 10 years. The rail (skyline) is already well known for being incredibly expensive. Seen the development of it since it was first proposed and it is only part way finished.
@@DiamondKingStudios Lawsuits. Environmental lawsuits, specifically.
@@leandersearle5094 probably not the only kind of lawsuit developers there have to deal with
I really want to know what Sam thinks about the rail. Has been in the works for over 10 years and opened only recently. But the sections that are open are between places that no one really goes to. It's between the aloha stadium (which closed for renovation) and eastern kapolei. Not even to the area of kapolei with activity! The rail right now does not reach the airport nor anywhere in town. For me, I would need to take 2 buses just to get to the rail and then wherever it drops me off I'll still need to take another bus to get to where I'm going. Might as well take the one bus I've been taking. It's a disaster and i think it would be an interesting topic for this channel or wendover
Coming out of the tunnels going leeward is one of the most beautiful sights on a road you can have.
i need the full album of the drill&blast song, it goes criminally hard
Not surprised. Very ambitious to make give Hawaii an interstate. That bridge must be at least 2000 miles.
I can't get over how perfect the drill and blast bit was. The first drill and blast moment in the last video had me laughing so hard I had to pause the video. Then this. The follow up to a classic is almost impossible, but you guys knocked it out of the park. To the editor who did that- kudos.
That cost is insane. I live in Colorado where I-70 basically cuts through the mountains in various places, and has a lot of crazy complexity. It's an absolute engineering marvel and the hardest driving in the US as far as interstates go.
I'm not sure of the exact length, but I'd guess somewhere around 250 miles from Denver to Utah. Even in inflation dollars it was still less than 1 billion to build.
If I recall correctly, it's because it was built as part of public works programs. If it were actually built today it would cost some absolutely insane figure that it probably wouldn't get built at all.
Between the Eisenhower Tunnel and the Glenwood canyon section it's somewhere north of $1.5 billion in inflation adjusted terms.
@@benjaminchung991 ok I guess I was completely wrong or misremembering something I read a while back that suggested the tunnel alone would cost like $70 billion today. I looked it up and yeah, $1.5 billion is actually a surprisingly reasonable number given how insanely expensive public infrastructure projects normally end up being in the US, like the big dig tunnel project. If I recall correctly, the huge number I was thinking of was in the context of the possibility of adding a train line parallel to the highway through the continental divide and the cost of adding a new tunnel being so astronomical that it wasn't in the realm of possibility. The two lanes on each side is still a huge bottleneck during ski season but I doubt they'll ever widen it.
Both drives are my favorites on the planet.
Happy to see this. I wrote a college paper around 16 years ago about Freeway Revolts and Environmentally friendly freeway constructions to get around Freeway Revolts. H-3 obviously made it into the paper. Along with things like the 710 Gap in Pasadena CA and I-70 west of Denver. I got a degree in urban and regional planning.
0:47 the description of the teal section has a typo. this better be on the next rendition of HAI mistakes
Sam: H3 is the most expensive and controversial highway project in US history is
Big Dig: Hold my beer
People in the comments somehow not understanding that “interstate” is just a name for federally funded highways and they do not have to be actually between states. There are lots of interstates in the continental US that stay within one state too.
The majority of the 1- or 2-digit interstates are at least planned to be in multiple states. Granted, part of that is made true by assigning the same number to two highways that aren't connected at all.
comments is full of drill and blast what u complaining about
@@benoithudson7235 definitely not all of them are! There are quite a few that aren’t. There’s a list of them out there somewhere that I saw at one point.
interstate™
Well many of those people may not actually be Americans and thus maybe not too knowledgeable about the details of your country
I cant believe you didn’t send Amy to walk the interstate
No one thinks H3 is ugly compared to Pali and Likelike Hwy. it’s a beautiful drive with stunning views.
nice, i hope the blast department of HaI never runs out of budget
H-3's kind of a weird one. Despite growing up on Oahu, I've been over it maybe four times in my life? To and from Urban Honolulu, the Pali and Likelike highways are generally more convenient. H-3 is a "nice" drive, I suppose, but that's about it. The price tag, the environmental/cultural damage, and the worker deaths make it hard to say it was all worth it.
I moved here in 2002 after it was done. I live on the West side and it really helps me to get to the Windward side without having to go thru town. I hike a lot so I’m all over the island. But if you live in the urban core then it’s not gonna help you much.
@@MrConverse Yeah, that makes sense. Looking at a map, it's easy to say, oh, Likelike is just a few valleys farther to go, but, of course, you're often fighting the worst traffic on H-1 to get to it from the West Side.
I’ve used H-3 many, many times. Especially going to the airport. With it, it’s possible to get from Kailua to the airport only having to go through a single traffic light in Kailua. It only takes 20 mins. from my house to the airport. Before H-3, you had to go through 8 traffic lights and had to go from the Pali Hwy. and change to H-1 (and through a lot of much heavier traffic). It took almost twice as long. It’s also very good for getting to the Pearl Harbor area (including Pearlridge Mall) and west Oahu. It also has one of the most beautiful views you’ll ever see when you exit the tunnel, windward bound (that view actually won an award).
in like the 80s and 90s the pali and likelike was the worst to drive through its basically the same as driving h1 west at like 5pm
MORE DRILL AND BLAST PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU
I really hope Drill and Blast becomes a recurring joke.
Since talking about H3, you should talk about the attacks on H3, it checks off everything, Logistics, geopolitics and military
Another fantastic entry into HAI's series of vids focusing on Hawaiian logistics and infrastructure! Also, kudos for being the first UA-camr to use the Spice Girls as a unit of measurement!
Thank you. I live and work in Honolulu. A lot of my managers and co-workers live in Kaneohe and drive to work when we are in office. I am grateful to live in my neighborhood my grandparents chose wisely and benefited my generation!
Having lived on the North Shore, H3 was nice to have. Traveled through it a lot and I knew people who used it every day to get to work on the other side of the island.
One addition. Up until 1997 the Navy and Coast Guard operated an OMEGA navigation station at Haiku, HI. This extremely powerful transmitting station was so close to H3 that it would energize the steel inside the tunnels and along the viaducts. Prior to opening the entire roadway of the leeward viaducts was removed and replaced with a built-in "Faraday Cage" to minimize danger to the public on H3. This was of course a HUGE cost overrun. The really corrupt part of this was that the OMEGA station was shut down BEFORE H3 ever opened. It just made a contractor or two a ton of free cash.
Managed an OMEGA site in Japan in the 1980s, it was mature technology but on its way out. Interesting story but yes stations needed a big buffer around them to keep from impacting local populace.
OMEGA is a very low frequency (VLF) radio navigational. system operating in the internationally allocated navigation. band in the electromagnetic spectrum between 10 and 14. kilohertz
Sounds similar in cost and controversy to the plan to put the A303 in a tunnel past Stonehenge in the UK. Only ours never got built. And doesn't even have and Drill & Blast.
Should've sent outside correspondent Amy to drive it to get some non-stock footage
How do I file formal grievance that HAI keeps teasing the Drill and Blast mixtape, but never delivers?
Drill and blast method returns
H3 is an absolutely beautiful road with part of it like driving through a rain forest. Nice to know the backstory but I wish I’d found the road paved with gold the times I was on it! I’ll pay more attention and be more appreciative next time. Aloha.
Drill and Blast Method is the new brick video, you'll have to do it for real eventually.
5:38 "Every industry has their version of the first pancake."
That's some big brain comedy right there. 👍
The music bit was great work. Got a good laugh and looked great! 10/10 right up this channel's alley
Calling Inouye an “H3 fanboy,” while not inaccurate, got me. 😂 Reminds me of when he was also called a “one-armed bandit.”
He lost his arm to a grenade in WWII, so I’d maybe refrain from using those words in the same sentence to describe him, even if he had his critics.
@ Then feel free to refrain from using the phrase to describe him. I, on the other hand, kū me Mililani Trask a me nā kānaka maoli.
H3 FANBOY IM DYING
love the H3, driving past "stairway to heaven" every time reminds me of hiking it in the middle of the night to catch the sunrise at the top.
0:22 80.000.000 $ per mile?
Berlin: hold my beer! The Autobahn A100 costs 393.600.000 € per mile. So it's more than 5 times as expensive. 🤯
Even in the Netherlands, which is almost flatter than flat, you’re looking at anything from 32 to 320mln € per mile. And that’s pricing from 8 years ago, we all know what corona and inflation did over the last few years. 🤯
What the hell?!
@@BlackbeardedPirate that's still ridiculous though, this HAS to be money laundering by contractors, how is sending stuff into space cheaper than building a highway? like fine it's not the simplest thing in the world but it is far from an engineering nightmare.
Stop blaming corona for everything. Blame Biden. Biden is responsible for everything including the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Space has a better cost per mile ratio I guess?
As for the highway and can think of property buyouts, aquaducts, viaducts, ecoducts, railway crossings, environmental studies, lawsuits etc. It’s a very crowded country.
This one highway, it took more than 2 years to lay the foundation over a stretch of 30 miles or so. Those were loads of sand hauled by those big mining trucks, I can only guess what the gas bill for something like that was.
A well-researched article delivered quickly in terms of view time.
There were a lot of Geological studies, and the terrain is a challenging hike, and it’s a beautiful drive.
The HAI drill album is my favorite running gag of all time
Petition to make HAI release a Drill and Blast Album on Spotify
2:02 clearly the protesters climbed to the top of mauna loa to protest, because that's the only place in hawaii where coats and hats are even a thing. or, they're high AF on pineapple juice
Remote things are expensive to build. At some point you might even import sand for that.
Thanks for all the height comparisons. That really put things in perspective. 🤓
Test Drive Unlimited
Blast and drill is like the brick recurrence, but sweet beats making it even better
PLEASE I NEED THE ALBUM
"Oh you like D&B? I like Drum and Bass too!"
"No no no. Hold my brick..."
When you dropping drill and blast (even if it’s a nebula exclusive) and when jet lagged next season
Oh god the Drill and Blast song (I got to hear more on nebula) is amazing plz full track release somewhere!
Did not expect to see a Drill & Blast reference, I thought that joke was one and done.
All this information about Hawai'i is appreciated!
I appreciate the attempt at adding metric to the measurements even though you kinda gave up halfway through the video
Amazing that I’m learning about this a week after leaving Hawaii for the US mainland.
I want to see more long form videos with that dope editing!
Good to know
I think the biggest question is why it's called an Interstate even though it exists entirely within one state.
Intrastate
Wait until you hear about the Extra-Inter-Unincorporated-Territory…
To make it legal, it did have to connect to a special sekret phantom state that lies hidden along the path. You get to it, you have to find a cave with a phony barricade in front of it.
Had to follow interstate regulations to get interstate funding
It’s not so unusual, really. There are way more interstate minors (three digits) that have their full length in a single state than actual inter-state interstates. And there’s even an interstate major (I-45) which is a fully intra-state interstate.
I think i speak for everyone when i say we need a full release of Drill and Blast!
5:02 Using American style measuring with a British pop group…NICE 😂
Underrated 😂
The return of Drill & Blast made my day! New album when?
4:41, if you know how to get in, you can walk inside H-3 just below the roadway across all those piers. It’s super cool!!
I mean, O'ahu must be extremely mountainous.
It's a volcano, so ... yeah.
@@newprophet2011*was* a volcano. The island was formed over a volcanic hotspot, but drifted over millions of years and any volcanoes that once were are now extinct. The hotspot is now where the big island is; the volcanos there are still active.
@@DiamondKingStudios and it is inactive volcano. Just because it will never irrupt again doesn’t mean it isn’t a volcano.
@@boxsterman77 Considering that many mountains form from volcanism, especially at subduction zones and mid-ocean ridges or rift valleys, that would technically make those mountains all volcanoes by your definition.
I have always enjoyed that highway all my life. It's been very useful and i'm grateful for it.
I'm so happy that Drill & Blast came back.
It's so cool to see the Byodo-In Temple getting used for the temple images :D Love seeing it pop up, I gotta go again soon
This HAI video might as well be wendover episode with a bit of more context added
Being born n raised here, I was taught that the H3 is “cursed” because it was built through sacred lands. Some of them were burial grounds with a lot of history. Even if you don’t believe in that type of stuff, you can’t deny it’s eerie how man incidents happen there, daily. Think just this month we’ve had 3-5 cars catch fire traveling over the H3. I know people that will travel all the way around to avoid using that road.
Should be adjusted for local cost of living, and/or sort of production cost adjustment. Hawaii is expensive in general, how much something is depends on cost of material and labor. $1 in hawaii is not necessarily more expensive than 90 cents somewhere else.
You forgot the spur route called H201
Dang, twice the cost per mile as Glenwood Canyon
Need 160ft pillars for that road because jungle is massive. Fr thought can’t wait for half as boiler room
As someone from the islands, I gotta say I'm loving this Hawai'i kick that Sam, and RLL have been on recently.
Hawaii's governor at the time of H-3's completion was Ben Cayetano. His first job after college was in the Hawaii State government. His first task on the job was to draft a feasibility study on the construction of H-3. He later steadily rose through the government bureaucracy and all the way into winning the governor election in the 1990s. Yet H-3 completed only when he became governor. From an entry-level employee to the governor. This will give everyone a little perspective on the length.
Idk looking at the map it hardly looks “inter” at all.
Fun fact: the tunnels were used for Covid testing in 2020. Happy i did ours testing in an open air park close to our neighborhood in Hawaii.
Props to sam for jumping out the window, just for a bit.
Nice Biting Elbows reference....
If you like tunnels, you should do a video on the Anton Anderson tunnel that connect the rest of Alaska to the town of Whittier.
So glad we saw the return of Drill and Blast!
Kaneohe is pronounced Khan nay oh hey and Pali is Paw Lee. Good video.
06:00 you didn't have to go that hard with the cutaway gag damn
Where is the link to the drill and blast album???
Love the stock footage people just chanting "Protesting!" 2:02
I would like to hear the full release of Drill and Blast Method
Its also known as the most beautiful highway in the world. The view while exiting the tunnel and going northbound is indescribable.
Coming from the Nebula version to thank you for the extended Drill and Blast Mix.
For anyone who've only see the YT version, there's that benefit to Nebula ;D
Can't wait for the album to drop dude
Great video.
I take offense about the video. It started when I was in High School and it opened after I got married late in life. Prior to H-3, driving over the Pali and Likelike is a long and tedious drive. Dangerous in some parts for drivers unaccustomed to the roads, congestion and weather, which being on a windward side of the island catches the majority of rainfall on any island. So anyone driving over a mountain, it is steep, narrow with winding roads. Factor in that the Marine Corp base which was in existence prior to WWII, is on that side, troop movement on the two heavily trafficked would be tedious going through civilian homes & businesses. A freeway for the military convoys is for National Defense/Security, which the bombing of Pearl Harbor was an example of trying to migrate troops back and forth over the mountain range or around either side of the island taking up time. My older brother worked on the H-3 in the early days. As for costs, there were Vietnam era anti-war protesters, anti environmental activists, native cultural practitioners, farmers, hunters, native Hawaiians protesting the project. There were massive engineering problems and discovering solutions impacting the project, all of which filed injunctions and lawsuits, delaying the project. During which time, the existing tunnels had nature cause enough destruction of landslides, downed trees from storms creating massive traffic jams blocking access to the Windward side for hours/days. It was finally completed, but people throughout the island travel over the H-3 daily, weekly, monthly. The military can transport their troops/equipment from the Marine base to the other bases as needed, and it's doubtful that even the former protestors of yesterday ever go the long routes via traveling on the Pali/Likelike/around the island, if they can get over faster via H-3. Just as people travel via the bridges/tunnels/railroads on any part of the world that was expensive to build, once it's done. They will use it. Infrastructure maintenance isn't paid out of their pockets of the protestor, it's the taxpayers, the same as the delays, taxpayers end up paying for it.
Sam releasing DnB would be unprecedented for this year
I liked the drill and blast bit