03-26-2014, 03:01 PM
hawaiian, when you take a survey from Puna-dwellers youÔre asking people who are OK with volcanic risk, or they wouldnÔt live there or buy there.
Go ask people who moved to North Kohala, and youÔll get different responses. No eruption there in 60,000 years and the volcanoes that were there are considered extinct. Even though Halaeakala is not.
Carey means a Mauna Loa event in her post about the threat to Hilo, not Mauna Kea. Carey is always right, other than that small slip. [
] I so admire how much she knows.
I agree no place is safe, and itÔs best to be in the place that feels right.
That said, I have had enough fire. I lost my home to fire once, I almost lost it a second time when my neighborsÔ house burned down and it almost took mine. I lived in the Bay Area at the time of the Oakland Hills firestorm when whole neighborhoods near me were lost.
People have different tolerance levels for losing stuff, and at different times of life. I lost most of my photos of my kids from their first ten years to fire, and that was tough. Lost art I had created. Many memories gone. Also I was uninsured, and it took about five years to sort of recover economically.
I know i canÔt keep fire out of my life if it wants to be there, but I donÔt thumb my nose at it either. Until your house burns down, you most likely donÔt believe it will happen to you.
I wonÔt live in the tsunami zone either, but I realize that a megatsunami could get me, sure. Or I could be passing through the tsunami zone when a local quake happens. IÔm not safe at all, but I did elect not to buy in Zone 1 or 2. It wasnÔt for me.
Go ask people who moved to North Kohala, and youÔll get different responses. No eruption there in 60,000 years and the volcanoes that were there are considered extinct. Even though Halaeakala is not.
Carey means a Mauna Loa event in her post about the threat to Hilo, not Mauna Kea. Carey is always right, other than that small slip. [
] I so admire how much she knows.I agree no place is safe, and itÔs best to be in the place that feels right.
That said, I have had enough fire. I lost my home to fire once, I almost lost it a second time when my neighborsÔ house burned down and it almost took mine. I lived in the Bay Area at the time of the Oakland Hills firestorm when whole neighborhoods near me were lost.
People have different tolerance levels for losing stuff, and at different times of life. I lost most of my photos of my kids from their first ten years to fire, and that was tough. Lost art I had created. Many memories gone. Also I was uninsured, and it took about five years to sort of recover economically.
I know i canÔt keep fire out of my life if it wants to be there, but I donÔt thumb my nose at it either. Until your house burns down, you most likely donÔt believe it will happen to you.
I wonÔt live in the tsunami zone either, but I realize that a megatsunami could get me, sure. Or I could be passing through the tsunami zone when a local quake happens. IÔm not safe at all, but I did elect not to buy in Zone 1 or 2. It wasnÔt for me.