07-30-2018, 07:56 AM
No sites apparently meet the safety criteria
I don't know if this has been suggested before, but doesn't the County benefit by the lava flow being perceived as a dangerous emergency situation? One that requires Federal dollars to manage an ongoing disaster? Wouldn't opening a County lava viewing area in effect say, if the danger has lessened enough that busloads of tourists can be transported to the edge of the molten flow, then maybe it's become normalized enough into routine County operating procedure, and perhaps Federal intervention (and dollars) can be phased out.
Of course, it's the County and State that benefit from an ongoing emergency response scenario, not restaurants in Pahoa, or Jack's Tours, or any other number of private businesses trying to stay afloat without visitor dollars that might be spent if visitors could look at lava.
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
I don't know if this has been suggested before, but doesn't the County benefit by the lava flow being perceived as a dangerous emergency situation? One that requires Federal dollars to manage an ongoing disaster? Wouldn't opening a County lava viewing area in effect say, if the danger has lessened enough that busloads of tourists can be transported to the edge of the molten flow, then maybe it's become normalized enough into routine County operating procedure, and perhaps Federal intervention (and dollars) can be phased out.
Of course, it's the County and State that benefit from an ongoing emergency response scenario, not restaurants in Pahoa, or Jack's Tours, or any other number of private businesses trying to stay afloat without visitor dollars that might be spent if visitors could look at lava.
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.” - Aldous Huxley
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves