11-20-2007, 02:40 AM
As HVO documents on its website ( http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/history/1960Jan13/#kukii ) there were valiant attempts to divert the lava, and to keep it from destroying the now lost Kapoho.
They were to no avail, though. So, there is some precedent. However, that will not happen here. The official attitude appears to be to let nature, in the form of Pele, take its course.
So my suggestions that Jerry's mother shotgun blast the hell out of the channel should be treated as an attempt to make humor out of what is turning out to be a very serious situation, and as a celebration of the tough spirit of that endangered species, Real Texans!
Anyway, aloha Pahoa. That lava is coming down, and it is coming down big, in a slow motion torrent. This is a veritable river. It's alive. It forms its own channel, like a Roman Aqueduct, no Romans required. When the channel is breached, this living thing repairs the channel.
You have to read between the lines with HVO. The fire department has done two overflights this week. The overflights are becoming more frequent.
On the plus side, I was wrong: Thanksgiving should be lava free!
But by my birthday........
They were to no avail, though. So, there is some precedent. However, that will not happen here. The official attitude appears to be to let nature, in the form of Pele, take its course.
So my suggestions that Jerry's mother shotgun blast the hell out of the channel should be treated as an attempt to make humor out of what is turning out to be a very serious situation, and as a celebration of the tough spirit of that endangered species, Real Texans!
Anyway, aloha Pahoa. That lava is coming down, and it is coming down big, in a slow motion torrent. This is a veritable river. It's alive. It forms its own channel, like a Roman Aqueduct, no Romans required. When the channel is breached, this living thing repairs the channel.
You have to read between the lines with HVO. The fire department has done two overflights this week. The overflights are becoming more frequent.
On the plus side, I was wrong: Thanksgiving should be lava free!
But by my birthday........