03-10-2011, 05:34 AM
That was amazing footage of the collapse. I was up there yesterday afternoon in a helicopter got to see a lot but Pu'u O'o was socked in. The fissure was squirting about 60 or more feet into the air. It was truly amazing as to how much lava was coming out and down the pali! It was interesting to listen to the pilot talk about how they try to fly as many different patterns to keep the noise down as much as possible while flying over the subdivisions. Weather has a lot to do with it.
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