What's up with Kau? Why is it so glacial?

[Rob Tucker]

Sounds like someone might want to consider opening a small local general store in Kau. Think of all the money you could make.

[Mimosa]

A number of years ago - a maximum security prison was slated for Kau.
The people of the area shot that down .Then the space port was planned and again the population said a a solid NO .
Major resorts wanted to put in world class golf courses but lack of water and toxic run off and then a 10+ year drought shut that idea down.
Lava flows do not care about hills - plenty tubes to carry the lava under those hills .MaunaLoa is long over due for a new eruption in our life time.
B4 you came here you were so stoked to move over to pick up pretty wahine on holiday at the high end resorts for hanky panky.
Now it sounds like you are grumbling because you must drive 60 + miles to shop in Kona or Hilo or go to a beach.
Foodland shut down because of excessive shop lifting ----- farmers shut down due of farm theft.Mac Nut ---- Coffee --- Kau Gold Oranges.
Meth is a HUGE problem in your section of island.
We suggest you open your own store but you will lose your SSI .
Where you live is PERFECT for you ------ Just do not grumble that it is NOT like where you came from in S.Calif.
Mrs.Mimosa and Ohana

[Carey]

More recent research suggests that then Ninole Hills formation is a rift zone migration/orientation change that was geologically fast, & might not have the connected tube formations that would carry lava under the hills, un-impeded...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...15GL065863

[Mimosa]

Thank You Carey - Those Hills are Pu'u's so we are sure there are still tubes to carry the magma / lava . In either case once she flows off MaunaLoa - she may cut off a highway access to either Kona or Hilo or both- leaving parts of Kau an island on an island. On a side note - less helicopter noises once she does start and she will.

[DoryGray]

I lived in Kau & moved to Puna in 2008 because of the vog when Halemaumau woke up. Prevailing trade winds blow the vog directly to Kau from the summit & the then ocean entry. Driving to Hilo or Kona for supplies is a pain, yes, but 6,768 people are not enough to make a full size grocery profitable. There is a new fairly large grocer in Ocean View, since I left. I loved it there, but it's a mix like everywhere else, there's old style ohana aloha, yet horrible meth use, there's unadulterated natural beauty, yet vog, there's very little services, yet no traffic. No place is perfect but I love that the locals are keeping it country, even fighting off the development corporate lawyers. It's one of the last places in the islands, other than Molokai that is almost like when the Polynesians landed on South Point. If you don't like where you live - move, it's a big world.

[kimo wires]

Arid, windy, dusty, Vog, Distant.Lack of stores, Water.
Kinda like Kaupo on Maui. Too Far from everything.