The sky is falling

[unknownjulie]

Alot of people here have built their own homes and don't have insurance, and many of us have questions about "whether houses are really covered from lava damage or not". Also, the poorest demographic, travels the farthest for work and across 130. It will mean financial ruin for many, interspersed with sporatic opportunity for a few- if that lava cuts off lower puna. Not to mention less options for people to go out in their boats to fish for food or profit.

[Guest]

Gypsy, I appreciate your digs and insights. The reason I talk about a variety of subjects, is because I believe it is good to socialize. No one trick ponies. As far as my reasons for moving to Puna, they are mostly personal, and thus I will keep them to myself, but have to do mostly with wanting a slower pace of life and more time.

Kelena, that was beautiful and very poetic. I dig it, and I know what you mean, thank you !

Primal, I get it. My friends back in New England are always whining about snow every winter like they forgot they live in New England !

So it rains a lot more in upper Puna than lower ?

[macuu222]

When it's in my backyard....then I'll start to worry!

[kimo wires]

The lava has headed down that gradual grade many times and it usually seizes up. And the flow then begins to head back down the steep southern slope. I'd be willing to bet that it does this again.

[EightFingers]

It just LOOKS like it's stalled. It's actually flowing down into a huge reservoir and when that fills up the lava will emerge somewhere near 13th and Paradise.

[mac nut]

A friend of mine kneeled down in the middle of the road on Paradise road and said "I think I hear lava flowing below in a tube" and then he got run over by a truck

[Bullwinkle]

good read:

"No one seemed to mind that the site was a short 6 kilometers down a steep slope southeast of the vent. By 1983 about 200 structures had been built on the property and their values were still rapidly rising. Then the volcano erupted."

http://kilauealavaflowmount.wordpress.co...bdivision/

[VancouverIslander]

quote:

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Originally posted by kimo wires

The lava has headed down that gradual grade many times and it usually seizes up. And the flow then begins to head back down the steep southern slope. I'd be willing to bet that it does this again.

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You are likely correct. Probably around 5:1 odds it stalls. In the mean time it's like watching a train wreck in ultra slow motion.

[Chunkster]

Purely hypothetical and hoping it never happens, but if the lava flow takes out a significant portion of HPP, do we get to abolish the HPPOA?

[Guest]

As this flow slowly moves through the forest today, she is laying down her foundation to make this path faster in her future?. The forest is filled with holes, caves, tubes, and valleys or low areas needing filled first. The flow is widening and changing that part of the land scape dramatically as it takes years to move down. Years from now though, this same kind of overflow of lava from the vent could reach these populated areas within days without all the holes to fill in. Also she is building her elevation and slopes with this flow. I have a Puna related question here, With this forest being replaced by lava rock could losing all these trees change our weather patterns a bit?. Maybe we will have more droughts or long periods of drier weather in the coming years?. Some of this forest that is being replaced right now was a swamp with lots of water and mud, that is now turning to solid rock.