09-17-2012, 03:52 PM
Hmmm, I think I'd be more worried about the entire island is expected to be covered in lava at least once again. So no one is really safe except for MAYBE that small part of the island in Lava Zone 8. 
It's just a matter of time. But hopefully I'll see some spectacular eruptions in my life time. I find it funny all that money spent on inspections and property taxes just so it will be covered in Lava again and again till maybe in a million or so years when the platonic plates shift us off the hot spot ... by that time the new island will be formed and people will be surfing the white sands of the east side of the big island where the new pipeline beach will be named. Oahu might be half the size of Kauai and Kauai will be an under water reef!
It's just a matter of time. But hopefully I'll see some spectacular eruptions in my life time. I find it funny all that money spent on inspections and property taxes just so it will be covered in Lava again and again till maybe in a million or so years when the platonic plates shift us off the hot spot ... by that time the new island will be formed and people will be surfing the white sands of the east side of the big island where the new pipeline beach will be named. Oahu might be half the size of Kauai and Kauai will be an under water reef!