Over Labour Day weekend 2019, Category 5 Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas head on, devastating the islands and destroying homes, infrastructure, communications and power. Anixter’s customers -LLA, Cable Bahamas and BTC - who supply voice, video, data and wireless services to the Bahamas, reached out to Anixter for help in supporting relief efforts for their employees and customers, while helping them get the islands’ communications infrastructure back up and running quickly.
The Anixter team immediately dropped their Labor Day plans and got to work. On Monday, LLA sent a material list and, by Wednesday, Anixter had two cargo planes bound for the Bahamas stocked with the requested items, including food and supply kits for local families, blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, portable generators, flashlights, water, baby formula, diapers, medicine, large diesel generators to power cell sites, oil filters, fuel tanks, fusion sets and tools, batteries and more.
