06-10-2024, 11:22 PM
Here are some l o n g excerpts from the book. Keep scrolling to the bottom where there are a handful of 30 second promo videos.
Are we Big Island residents and tourists terrified? Yes we are!
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles...ttle-brown
“We expect this to be a fairly large eruption,” he said, “and we expect that it will come within the next two weeks, perhaps much sooner than that.”
Wendy Watanabe from one of the Honolulu TV stations raised a hand. “At what point will HVO raise the volcano alert level?”
“While Mauna Loa is at elevated unrest, the level remains at advisory/yellow,” MacGregor said. “We remain focused on the northeast rift zone.”
Everybody else on the HVO staff had seen famous eruptions on videotape.
MacGregor had been there. If he was acting this quickly and decisively now, he had his reasons. He’d been there. He knew.
He also knew enough not to explain in detail that HVO was tracking the biggest eruption in a century—that would only have caused a panic, no matter which side of the volcano was going to blow.
There was one other thing that Mac knew and Jenny knew but the media didn’t.
John MacGregor was lying his ass off.
He knew exactly when the eruption was coming, and it wasn’t two weeks or even one.
Five days.
And counting.
Are we Big Island residents and tourists terrified? Yes we are!
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles...ttle-brown
“We expect this to be a fairly large eruption,” he said, “and we expect that it will come within the next two weeks, perhaps much sooner than that.”
Wendy Watanabe from one of the Honolulu TV stations raised a hand. “At what point will HVO raise the volcano alert level?”
“While Mauna Loa is at elevated unrest, the level remains at advisory/yellow,” MacGregor said. “We remain focused on the northeast rift zone.”
Everybody else on the HVO staff had seen famous eruptions on videotape.
MacGregor had been there. If he was acting this quickly and decisively now, he had his reasons. He’d been there. He knew.
He also knew enough not to explain in detail that HVO was tracking the biggest eruption in a century—that would only have caused a panic, no matter which side of the volcano was going to blow.
There was one other thing that Mac knew and Jenny knew but the media didn’t.
John MacGregor was lying his ass off.
He knew exactly when the eruption was coming, and it wasn’t two weeks or even one.
Five days.
And counting.