01-19-2014, 10:05 AM
I know this is sacrilege but in my book building on an active volcano means you accept the possibility of your property being inundated. In response to the question "What is the county doing about the risk?" they might say "OK, you're right. There is a danger. No more building in Puna." The clamor would be loud and instantaneous that if people want to live there then government should not stop them. As for houses already built, see above. People would have said that 50 years ago too.
Helicopters and boats are fine for immediate evacuation but nobody is going to shell out any cash to ferry punatics back and forth to their now isolated puna shacks. As far as immediate evacuation goes, Kilauea has not had those kinds of explosive eruptions in modern memory. It it does then by all means call out the National Guard, but what seems much more likely is the Puna equivalent of some medicaid patient's calling an ambulance because it is cheaper than a taxi because they really did not face reality. How many decades now has Kilauea been forcing people to relocate?
Course I'm safe here in Eden Roc, right?
Helicopters and boats are fine for immediate evacuation but nobody is going to shell out any cash to ferry punatics back and forth to their now isolated puna shacks. As far as immediate evacuation goes, Kilauea has not had those kinds of explosive eruptions in modern memory. It it does then by all means call out the National Guard, but what seems much more likely is the Puna equivalent of some medicaid patient's calling an ambulance because it is cheaper than a taxi because they really did not face reality. How many decades now has Kilauea been forcing people to relocate?
Course I'm safe here in Eden Roc, right?