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(06-29-2021, 06:10 PM)Carey Wrote: so if you state that no area of known high risk should be inhabited, then you should also, as I stated earlier, be advocating for the de-habitation of much of Kaʻ`u, South Kona & Hilo, as they actually hold much greater DISASTER potential than any Kilauea event, being known to be faster, higher volume & less predictable than Kilauea flows...
Yes! That's my point. Though I am far from as black and white as your statement.
And I am lobbying our representatives to know it.
I think HOVE is a far bigger disaster than Kapoho/Leilani ever was, and it is ready to happen. Think of the scale of things, the immediacy, when Mauna Loa's Southwest Rift opens up...
Compare HVO recent Volcano Watch..
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...-eruption/
With the chronology of the 1950 Mauna Loa eruption...
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa...e-eruption
And ask.. what are all those people in that red zone (in HVO Volcano Watch referenced above) going to do? Are we, county and state, ready for such an event?
We have it down in flood zones.. we make settling in them very hard.. not so much our lava zones, eh?
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The biggest use of HPIA was after Iniki not a lava eruption.
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And I am lobbying our representatives to know it.
I'm pretty sure they know all about it. Disaster recovery is our third-largest industry.
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(06-29-2021, 06:54 PM)kalakoa Wrote: And I am lobbying our representatives to know it.
I'm pretty sure they know all about it. Disaster recovery is our third-largest industry.
As I am sure you can imagine, its an interesting process, kalakoa.
Consider this..
Back in November 2019 Maile David was featured on Big Island Video News asking if the Lava Zone Boundaries could be moved. It was during a council meeting with representatives from HUD. Where HUD was informing County...
“HUD does have a lava flow policy,” said Mark Chandler, the Community Planning Development Director for the HUD Honolulu field office. “If you’re living in a lava flow 1 or 2 zone, it’s not an eligible area to build a house for HUD’s purposes. Obviously, the county has been allowing construction in zones 1 and 2, but sorry, no HUD monies in that area.”
And in response...
Councilwoman Maile David pointed out that nearly half the island is in a lava zone 1 or 2, which means HUD cannot be involved in housing projects in most of her South Kona and Kaʻū districts. David wanted to know about possible changes to the lava zone map.
Who then was told..
“Go back to USGS, because they’re the ones that actually do all the work and figure out where these lava areas are going to flow,” Chandler said.
Yes, kalkoa, they understand disaster relief. That's simple, stick hand out take money..
It's the rest of it that they wrestle with.
Quotes from:
https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/...zones-1-2/
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David wanted to know about possible changes to the lava zone map.
Well, if they can’t move the boundaries for the lava zones, maybe they could skip the designation of a zone 1 & zone 2? Start with lava zone 3, because that’s relatively safe. It should do the trick.
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That's simple, stick hand out take money.
Which is to say, it's in their best interests to let people build, even to the point of encouraging it by creating insurance so that banks will provide financing. By this same token, merely allowing people to live there isn't enough, because unpermitted homes don't count for enough disaster relief.
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The most important thing we can do with Puna is farm:
- Personal savings of transplants $
- Taxes from anyone that dares to work/invest $
- Federal EBT/Medicaid/Medicare/SS $$
- Federal infrastructure $$
- Federal disaster relief $$
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(06-30-2021, 05:03 AM)randomq Wrote: The most important thing we can do with Puna is farm:
- Personal savings of transplants $
- Taxes from anyone that dares to work/invest $
- Federal EBT/Medicaid/Medicare/SS $$
- Federal infrastructure $$
- Federal disaster relief $$
Doesn't seem like that does enough to farm the more regressive taxes, like the GET.
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Not going to convince any of my friends from rebuilding in Puna Makai !
It's the best place on this island for the type of farming that went on there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74YQKiUE_6I
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Roads are coming and roads are the precursor to development.
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2021/05/...ghway-137/
