11-29-2010, 04:24 PM
Kimo,
That house could have been moved to a new lot within a few miles for less than $20,000(lot included). I bet a dollar it wasn't moved because Jane had fire insurance. Like hundreds of other homes in the area burned since 1990, their insurance companies won't pay a little to save a house;
Just to replace it at full insured value.
I personally know a prominent local businessman who was increasing his coverage as the lava approached his house back then. You may have gotten a satellite dish from him.
edit: BTW; The flow's not over yet. A lot of the Kalapana lava field is over fifty feet thick. A concrete house might survive, but it could be a basement.
That house could have been moved to a new lot within a few miles for less than $20,000(lot included). I bet a dollar it wasn't moved because Jane had fire insurance. Like hundreds of other homes in the area burned since 1990, their insurance companies won't pay a little to save a house;
Just to replace it at full insured value.
I personally know a prominent local businessman who was increasing his coverage as the lava approached his house back then. You may have gotten a satellite dish from him.
edit: BTW; The flow's not over yet. A lot of the Kalapana lava field is over fifty feet thick. A concrete house might survive, but it could be a basement.