02-24-2014, 03:18 AM
Hawaii may seem like it is always summer but there are seasons. We are heading into spring and there are things blooming. It is common to have night rains during this time.
The rotten egg smell that many people attribute to geothermal is actually albizia pollen right after a heavy rain. It smells partly like death and partly like rotten eggs. It seems to be very bad down by Pohoiki but that is where the most dense albizia growths are located.
The Wao Kele O Puna forest is being cooked by the lava flow. It isn't like a forest fire where trees ignite. They are being soaked with rain during the night. They are being heated from the ground around the clock and that is raising huge clouds of steam. Today will be a clear day, look to the west, and you will see huge, turbulent clouds, rising from the horizon, not being blown in. There are particulates in these clouds. It is going to cause respiratory problems for more sensitive people and you will see people having sneezing fits. Hopefully, the flow stops but if it continues or increases, then more people will be having respiratory problems, actually worse than vog.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
The rotten egg smell that many people attribute to geothermal is actually albizia pollen right after a heavy rain. It smells partly like death and partly like rotten eggs. It seems to be very bad down by Pohoiki but that is where the most dense albizia growths are located.
The Wao Kele O Puna forest is being cooked by the lava flow. It isn't like a forest fire where trees ignite. They are being soaked with rain during the night. They are being heated from the ground around the clock and that is raising huge clouds of steam. Today will be a clear day, look to the west, and you will see huge, turbulent clouds, rising from the horizon, not being blown in. There are particulates in these clouds. It is going to cause respiratory problems for more sensitive people and you will see people having sneezing fits. Hopefully, the flow stops but if it continues or increases, then more people will be having respiratory problems, actually worse than vog.
"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*