Building a new town in South Puna

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Originally posted by SBango

Let's not rebuild Hilo after a lava flow from Mauna Loa wipes it out either. Good thinking.

Sheila Bang

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Mauna Loa resurfaces itself at an interval of several thousand years, Kilauea at an interval considerably shorter. Nowhere in Hawaii (or anywhere else) is perfectly safe from loss, but it's just plain foolish to encourage - or enable - development in high hazard areas. The cost to the County and the State of responding to this disaster will be in the $100,000's to $Millions that neither government has to spare - and that's aside from the State and County infrastructure that will be lost. And, no doubt, the HPIA will be calling on State General Funds to cover their losses from this inevitable event. Why should the State and County taxpayers subsidize/indemnify against predictable losses?