10-27-2007, 06:02 AM
I am less concerned about this than I was before the fires here in Southern California. It was pretty unpleasant here. Still, I read the HVO reports everyday, the way that some people in the CIA used to read Pravda for little clues to what powerbrokers in the former Soviet Union were thinking.
Today's report: We got a tube, and we got pahoehoe. I have a little trouble interepreting HVO's jargon-laced reports, but if I recall correctly what we don't want is a tube, and we don't want pahoehoe which flows much more quickly that a'a (blocky lava). And we don't want pahoehoe flowing through a tube.
HVO reports that the flow advanced along the northern margin and that the flow is tube-fed pahoehoe. It went about a mile and half from the end of the channel. That's a long way.
HVO's reports are very careful to report observations only and to avoid interpretations of those observations. But as a veteran HVO report watcher, I have to say that in today's report I sensed just a twinge of concern among HVO scientists.
A tube and pahoehoe. I knew I shouldn't have watched that program "Megadisasters: Hawaii Apocalypse" last night.
Today's report: We got a tube, and we got pahoehoe. I have a little trouble interepreting HVO's jargon-laced reports, but if I recall correctly what we don't want is a tube, and we don't want pahoehoe which flows much more quickly that a'a (blocky lava). And we don't want pahoehoe flowing through a tube.
HVO reports that the flow advanced along the northern margin and that the flow is tube-fed pahoehoe. It went about a mile and half from the end of the channel. That's a long way.
HVO's reports are very careful to report observations only and to avoid interpretations of those observations. But as a veteran HVO report watcher, I have to say that in today's report I sensed just a twinge of concern among HVO scientists.
A tube and pahoehoe. I knew I shouldn't have watched that program "Megadisasters: Hawaii Apocalypse" last night.