08-27-2014, 01:36 AM
Netflix has Andrew Bourdains Unknown Places series and one is where he goes to the Congo. He visits Goma, what was once a city next to the border of Rwanda (yes, where Tutsi slaughtered Hutu's). There was an eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in 2012. Due to the civil war, gigantic refugee camps had nowhere to go but at the base of the volcano.
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There are large sections of the roads that are 12 feet higher than the base. What they did there was just keep driving, as Bourdain shows in his show.
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While the nature of Mount Nyiragongo is very different from Kilauea, the reaction to a flow covering Hwy 130 probably won't be that different. If the flow keeps flowing to the north east, people will just start driving around further and further east. While there is no road there, the terrain isn't much different from driving out to South Point, just have a lot of ground clearance, go slow and it helps to have 4-wheel drive. If the lava flow kept going to the ocean, then it will have cooled up the road and people will just drive over the hardened flow. Also, people will just start punching through on Beach road from Beaches to HPP.
If Puna is paradise on Earth, then Goma must certainly be hell on earth.
"We come in peace!" - First thing said by missionaries and extraterrestrials
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64...ma_afp.jpg
There are large sections of the roads that are 12 feet higher than the base. What they did there was just keep driving, as Bourdain shows in his show.
http://users.skynet.be/technaphot/webgom...C00029.jpg
While the nature of Mount Nyiragongo is very different from Kilauea, the reaction to a flow covering Hwy 130 probably won't be that different. If the flow keeps flowing to the north east, people will just start driving around further and further east. While there is no road there, the terrain isn't much different from driving out to South Point, just have a lot of ground clearance, go slow and it helps to have 4-wheel drive. If the lava flow kept going to the ocean, then it will have cooled up the road and people will just drive over the hardened flow. Also, people will just start punching through on Beach road from Beaches to HPP.
If Puna is paradise on Earth, then Goma must certainly be hell on earth.
"We come in peace!" - First thing said by missionaries and extraterrestrials
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*