08-27-2014, 08:36 AM
A lot of people are putting the cart way before the horse. The flow has to go through this upper Pahoa development, then through Pahoa village then get to the highway before crossing that. That is like the CD meeting Monday. Here is the county, CD, USGS, PGV, HELCO, visiting Puna to review the possibility of an encroaching lava flow possibly threatening outer Pahoa, then the wild bunch goes all off kilter on PGV, demanding shut down plans, blah, blah, blah. And people wonder why Puna never gets anything nice. The issue was the growing possibility that a flow was going to reach populated areas and start threatening homes. There isn't going to be any big evacuation unless the eruption got really violent. It's like Royal Gardens, there will just be instructions to stay out of the way of the flow. It's probably up to the individual home owner to decide if they want to try to move belongings out. Even if it is 300 feet per day, it is pretty slow motion.
"We come in peace!" - First thing said by missionaries and extraterrestrials
"We come in peace!" - First thing said by missionaries and extraterrestrials
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*