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Lower Puna: An island and it's future - pbmaise - 12-25-2014
Let's look beyond the June 27th 2014 lava flow.
Lower Puna, as defined by that area South of the flow, will be different.
What is different good or bad?
What can we proactively do to make change for the better?
Assume:
1.The flow continues more or less non-stop.
2. Road access only by Chain of Craters road. COC.
3. High levels of SO2 and H2S have forced intermittent closures of COC. Some lasted several days. One lasted 2 months.
4. Talk about building a road over an active lava flow has proved to be nothing more than talk.
5. Talk of expanding the port keeps coming down to fighting between factions that want no seawall and factions that say it is necessary for a large ferry.
All around the world, some of the most desirable places to live, work, and see is a smaller island that is different than the nearby mainland.
Each of these islands changed for the better or worse because of the differences encouraged.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Boracay, Bali, Mackinaw, Fire, Province Town, San Francisco are all examples of islands that thrive.
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - MattKarma - 12-25-2014
Access to Cambodia from Thailand is via 4 large french-built speedboats, kept in shape by local lathe turned parts. It's AWESOME.
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - Lee M-S - 12-25-2014
San Francisco's an island? when did that happen?
"...own, San Francisco are all examples of islands that thrive."
Aside from that, you make a good point.
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RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - rogerluli - 12-25-2014
One correction...San Francisco is not an island...It is surrounded by water on 3 sides though..
Rodarupian
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - shockwave rider - 12-25-2014
Christmas 2025
Life in lower Puna is now similar to rural Alaska, only warmer, with transportation adjusting to ever changing conditions. At times there is a stretch of gravel road serving as Highway 130 over earlier flows and at time there is not due to movement of hot lava, sometimes RR and Beach Road are the connections to the Hilo side, and during widely spaced intermittent periods of hot lava running farther towards the ocean, Chain of Craters road is the route used. Commercial enterprises have relocated deeper into Lower Puna to areas farther away from the North side flow, the population has risen to 10,000 again after an initial plummet and Lower Puna has developed a self sufficient lifestyle and economy less dependent on trips to Hilo and Kona than previously.
Ka'u is now the fastest growing district in the state, with realtors and retirees all excited about "affordable paradise" while ignoring the potential for Mauna Loa to erupt hard and fast in the near future.
edited because Ka'u has an okina
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 12-25-2014
Christmas 2015
Life in lower Puna is slowly recovering, after an influx of Hilo residents earlier in the summer. A massive eruption from Mauna Loa, with dual fissures opening simultaneously on both east and west flanks covered Hilo, Kona and everything inbetween with 20-50 feet of a'a lava. Fortunately residents had 24 hours notice to evacuate so there was no loss of life. However all highways and airports remain closed. The Big Island was effectively cut in two, with the Hamakua-Kohala District to the north, and Puna-Ka'u District to the south.
It was completely unexpected, said every politician and scientist who was interviewed for this story.
Due to the massive amount of magma released, volcanologists determined Kilauea was effectively emptied, right to the bottom, and can now be considered dormant. Massive state and federal funding have come to the aid of the new South District capital, Pahoa, including completion of the Pahoa Park, a retrofit of the old $4 million Lava Viewing Site into a transfer station, and enough money to install a stop light where a roundabout had been planned. Also a new Post Office, and State and Federal Building are under construction, as well as expansion of the old Long's Drug Store, and the transformation of Malama Market into a full service Foodland, soon to be the largest in the state.
An airport is planned near Na'alehu at the proposed site of the canceled Ka'u Space Port project. Not a single objection was made this time to the roar of loud engines, since it will create thousands of long term local jobs. Pardon our noise, it's the sound of employment.
Because Island Naturals was the only source of food in Puna for several months after the eruption, Russell Ruderman was elected District Mayor with almost no opposition. Residents are now in almost complete agreement that non-GMO foods are really delicious, and much better tasting than no food at all.
Temporary zoning restrictions have been eased to allow multiple ohanas on properties to provide long term temporary housing to the influx of Hilo refugees. The first new housing development will open soon, Kalapana Royal Garden Estates, complete with county water and high speed fiber-optic internet.
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - terracore - 12-25-2014
Bravo HOTPE, bravo!
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - ericlp - 12-25-2014
Wow! I thought I was reading the onion....
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RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - pbmaise - 12-25-2014
Christmas 2015
News Items:
The Pahoa High School trip during Spring Break will first stop for two days of skiing at Banff and then proceed to Iceland to examine Bárðarbunga the world's second most active volcano. Chaperones are reminded that owing to the incident last Spring Break that they are not allowed to book first class tickets.
Visiting sociologist Chang Ng from the University of Michigan will be speaking at the Lower Puna Performing Arts Center next Tuesday regarding the gentrification and influx of retiring residents of, ahem, shall we just say, adequate wealth.
The Pahoa Council again rejected calls to mandate electric vehicles. Some residents have seen this as an infraction on their civil rights.
We won't say who, but an octogenarian in Sea View Estates was spotted in public without his usual perfect jet black hair.
RE: Lower Puna: An island and it's future - Guest - 12-26-2014
Lower Puna will morph into a counter-culture 'off-the-radar' bastion resembling rural N. California in the 1960s. Rather than hate and fear the lava flows, people who remain or migrate here will welcome the lava as a moat from 'civilization' and its meddling. Much of the population will be endeavouring to disengage themselves from the unsustainable civilizations of the developed world doomed to spiral into overpopulation and climate change induced famine, war and social chaos. Communes and self sufficient family farms will proliferate, and all-day trips to stand in long lines outside supermarkets will be replaced by walks or bicycle rides to farmer's markets. Barter of goods, food and labor based upon bonds of friendship and trust will become a form of exchange. Structures people live in will look like something from a science fiction movie in the absence of building codes or an electric grid. There will be little to no police presence, which will be an issue for several years until most of the miscreants have mysteriously not returned from deep sea fishing trips. Peace will reign. Rural roadways will be decorated by people of all races and mixtures of races wearing rainbows of brightly colored clothing, or next to nothing. Women will be treated with respect and will walk the roadways fearlessly. Aloha and Hawaiian traditional culture and language will flourish. All media attention will be shunned because people will fear a massive influx of refugees from the chaos of the mainland if word gets out. Puna will turn in upon itself and become a carefully guarded secret of those seeking to survive the coming bottleneck between the collapse of the present unsustainable era and the birth of the next.
Or maybe things will just muddle along, same as ever. Who knows?
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