09-10-2007, 04:59 PM
Kapohocat, re: your Hawaiian Acres friend "said that a few weeks ago her pond was "bubbling" - big plopping bubbles not jacuzzi kind - it lasted a few hours till the pond was covered (about 30' diameter) with "foam-like" substance. She thought it odd but didnt notify anyone - having lived up there many many years she just figured it was gas escaping from a tube" -- those are the kinds of observations that should at least be conveyed to HVO and mentioned on blogs like this. That's how we're gonna find out where the eruption is going...people are gonna see signs like that.
Did you see Sunday's HVO column in the Trib? It was about reticulite, which is volcanic effluent that looked like irregular shaped pieces of dirty styrofoam when it fell in Nanawale Est. during the early high-fountaining phases of this eruption.
Did your friend save any of the "foam-like" substance? Did it look like dirty styrofoam? If so, it could have been reticulite, bubbling up in Hwn Acres. I seem to remember residents reporting some small fuming happening in Orchidland early in the 1977 Kalapana eruption.
There are going to be a variety of natural signals of the volcanic activity as (if) it moves downrift and they're going to be happening in people's farms, ranches, yards.
Maybe we should ask Jim Kauahikaua what are some of the natural phenomenon that might occur and that should be reported to HVO if it happens on our property.
Did you see Sunday's HVO column in the Trib? It was about reticulite, which is volcanic effluent that looked like irregular shaped pieces of dirty styrofoam when it fell in Nanawale Est. during the early high-fountaining phases of this eruption.
Did your friend save any of the "foam-like" substance? Did it look like dirty styrofoam? If so, it could have been reticulite, bubbling up in Hwn Acres. I seem to remember residents reporting some small fuming happening in Orchidland early in the 1977 Kalapana eruption.
There are going to be a variety of natural signals of the volcanic activity as (if) it moves downrift and they're going to be happening in people's farms, ranches, yards.
Maybe we should ask Jim Kauahikaua what are some of the natural phenomenon that might occur and that should be reported to HVO if it happens on our property.