08-19-2007, 03:51 PM
If you live in lower Puna, your home is going to be covered with lava sometime within the next several hundred years. We can only hope that it happens in 200 years rather than one. I don't think we know enough about lava diversion for it to work. The bombing attempts mentioned earlier were ineffective. There are the liability issues, and there are also cultural sensitivity issues. Kilauea is going to keep erupting, and it is up to us to prepare for it, and deal with it. We aren't going to change it.