08-26-2014, 03:14 AM
What is concerning to me is they are saying it only advanced 1/4 miles since Friday, but the map shows entering and now leaving the far end of the crack since then which is nearly 2 miles in a few days. At this rate, it seems potentially much less than a few weeks to hit occupied areas. We will be going to the meeting tonight. Hopefully they will give specifics on opening up Chain of Craters or other routes and what will trigger that, and how quickly it can be done. If it crosses 130 north of Hawaiian Beaches and thousands of people are trapped, what is the plan for that? Hopefully they have clear plans to re-open chain of craters quickly, but to do so requires bulldozing miles of lava. And it doesn't seem to early to be discussing eminent domain to create an emergency route from the bottom of Beaches into HPP. Or is that road that shows up on the USGS map already passable?