10-07-2007, 07:34 PM
you can't put a moratorium on building permits. When people buy land that is already zoned such that a home is allowed, they have the right to build it.
I have a hard time understanding a suggestion that people should lose the value of their land just because the volcano MIGHT in the future come that way. At least wait until Pele takes the value away.
If "they" knew how to safely trigger small quakes in California that would avert "the Big One" in Los Angeles' future, I have little doubt they would try. I don't doubt people are researching the idea.
I think the goverment here would do anything it could to save Hilo ... and not just because it's the seat of the government, but the size of the town, its history, its port. It's a mindset about Hilo as a fixture on the landscape vs Puna as a less settled area always on the edge. Same with saving Kailua-Kona but letting HOVE go and focusing on evacuation and protecting lives. If K-K were in peril they would very likely try to do something, whether or no it would succeed.
I just got back from North Kohala where the powers that be let a whole district go without drinking water from Friday afternoon -- and due to Discoverer's Day they are not expected to get it until Tuesday. It really sucked.
If Hilo's water supply had gone dry, or the Kohala resorts, they would have done SOMETHING to bring the part or parts in that they need, holiday or not. But it's a rural district -- so folks can fill jugs and rough it for a few days. Priorities. <disgusted>
I have a hard time understanding a suggestion that people should lose the value of their land just because the volcano MIGHT in the future come that way. At least wait until Pele takes the value away.
If "they" knew how to safely trigger small quakes in California that would avert "the Big One" in Los Angeles' future, I have little doubt they would try. I don't doubt people are researching the idea.
I think the goverment here would do anything it could to save Hilo ... and not just because it's the seat of the government, but the size of the town, its history, its port. It's a mindset about Hilo as a fixture on the landscape vs Puna as a less settled area always on the edge. Same with saving Kailua-Kona but letting HOVE go and focusing on evacuation and protecting lives. If K-K were in peril they would very likely try to do something, whether or no it would succeed.
I just got back from North Kohala where the powers that be let a whole district go without drinking water from Friday afternoon -- and due to Discoverer's Day they are not expected to get it until Tuesday. It really sucked.
If Hilo's water supply had gone dry, or the Kohala resorts, they would have done SOMETHING to bring the part or parts in that they need, holiday or not. But it's a rural district -- so folks can fill jugs and rough it for a few days. Priorities. <disgusted>