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There have been so many great posts on Punaweb over the years. Helpful information about living on lava, (with more lava arriving all the time), in the middle of the largest ocean on earth, and unpredictable weather. Except the temperature. Our daily temperatures are blissfully pleasant almost always.
We’ve posted and read stories about everything, building, growing food, restaurants, movies, government, personal observations, and news that keeps us on our toes.
So what do you remember from the good old days, from the golden age of Punaweb? Favorite comments that were humorous, terrifying, entertaining, or just something you found helpful that hasn’t been discussed lately?
I’ll start.
Although it’s always planting season here, I’ve made an extra effort recently to get my garden and greenhouse growing again. Over on the Farming and Gardening in Puna thread we had a member provide helpful advice over the years called “Learn about…”
spencerw occasionally posted links to his informative website with tips on vegetable plants both common and unusual. This one about misuba is a good place to start. I love the photos, a real jungle garden that works.
https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=21019
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The semicircle of doom-related thread was enjoyable; in fact, all threads related to the Pahoa roundabout were entertaining. There were arguments about whether it was a traffic circle, roundabout, or something else, and the history of roundabouts -- or circles.
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semicircle of doom-related thread was enjoyable
Yes, many expected the worst, but all we got was meh.
There are several threads on the roundabout, here’s one picked mostly for its subject title.
The Circle of Death update:
https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=17090
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One of my favorites was the conversation about Mrs. Mimosaʻs water tank. Was it 100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 gallons? Either way...
Certainty will be the death of us.
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Mrs. Mimosaʻs water tank. Was it 100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 gallons
Yes! Mrs. Mimosa must have had one of the more unique farmsteads in Puna District. Tall tales or not, her comments were always entertaining:
Our water capacity now is concrete under ground of over a million gallons for home use and irrigation of our orchards .
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The Japanese current is in a larger motion to the east than the last 50 years.The magnetic poles are shifting in duration and strength.
1,000,000 gallons!
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Don't forget the hydroelectric turbines in the downspouts .
The 74 lifted 4x4 Dodge Ram pickup was a good tale too.
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(05-07-2025, 08:50 PM)Moderator 2 Wrote: Mrs. Mimosaʻs water tank. Was it 100,000 gallons or 1,000,000 gallons
Yes! Mrs. Mimosa must have had one of the more unique farmsteads in Puna District. Tall tales or not, her comments were always entertaining:
Our water capacity now is concrete under ground of over a million gallons for home use and irrigation of our orchards .
…
The Japanese current is in a larger motion to the east than the last 50 years.The magnetic poles are shifting in duration and strength.
1,000,000 gallons!
LOL. Imagine the cost of such a thing.
So what happened with her? Was she browbeaten into submission or just stopped posting?
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05-08-2025, 04:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2025, 04:40 AM by ironyak.)
As for Greatest Hits, it's hard not to mention 2014's " Hero of Pahoa", that when the county said no can, fired up his dozer with a plan (or something like that... Punatic creativity was on full display, would be a great tune for a bar and grill, but the lyrics have got lost in the haze of tire smoke...)
Punaweb around that time also had a cameo appearance from local celebrity "rock" star Jack Lockwood dispensing sage advice and helping settle some contentious, if diverting, discussion.
Whose to say that imminent molten inundation can't have a silver lining?
(If anyone can resurrect the Hero of Pahoa song video or these threads it would be appreciated - Internet Archive only saved the first couple pages of some threads in the 2014 Lava Flow Emergency Forum - so the entertainment of PrimalEdge walking other users through the "trolley problem" with lava may have been lost to the flow, never to be uncovered again)
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If we’re talking vintage.. kalakoa’s 'we’re all gonna die' ranks right up there as one of the best for me..
He’s used it more than once, so maybe there’s a point of two off for plagiarizing, but delivered with that deadpan matter of fact there’s no room for discussion.. and the timing! It's a classic..
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(05-08-2025, 05:36 AM)MyManao Wrote: If we’re talking vintage.. kalakoa’s 'we’re all gonna die' ranks right up there as one of the best for me..
He’s used it more than once, so maybe there’s a point of two off for plagiarizing, but delivered with that deadpan matter of fact there’s no room for discussion.. and the timing! It's a classic..
https://punaweb.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=12676&pid=166099#pid166099
Who's that "dakine" fellow in the thread?
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