Recent flow activity

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The actual cone sits inside the national park. There is no way the NPS is ever going to consent to bombing a natural feature within the park boundaries. If they didn't do it when Royal Gardens, Kalapana, and the state park and many cultural features, including an amazing black sand beach, got taken, and didn't do it when this last set of houses got taken, they sure aren't going to start bombing the crater now. The feds would have to agree to any meaningful diversion, and I don't see them doing so for a very "local" problem like the possibility of third of Puna being cut off by lava, for the feds that just isn't a major problem worth taking on huge liability to try to mitigate. It isn't like Hilo harbor or Kawaihae or Honolulu are being threatened, it is a small poor rural area the feds and state really don't care about. That partly benign neglect is what appeals to a lot of people who live here, the flip side is if the lava heads towards your house you better start packing, because no one is going to do anything about it.

Carol