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I'm wondering, is the photo at the top of the article about Royal Gardens, the driver's inside car, or his outside car? Because it looks like a third category to me:
A short drive to the market now became a drive to the end of the subdivision, a 1-mile hike to the National Park road system, and an additional 60 miles – one way. Residents had “inside cars” and “outside cars” which they would leave on either side of their hikes.
http://kilauealavaflowmount.wordpress.co...bdivision/
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I read what may be the best insight I have heard from a long time local - the point made was that lava was a secondary concern -
the primary concern being a "forest" fire starting during our coming summer season when the brush dries out
good point imho
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Went to meeting last night at Mt.View shool about the lava flow.The volcano man said worst case lava will be in Anolia if stays at the same flow as now by 3/15/2015 but said the flow of lava has really slow down the last few months and they really dont know what is going to happen.To me it looks like wildfires are the biggest risk right now if it gets dry. Fires are a high danger.Right now is so wet lava has to touch brush for it to burn but will change real fast if it gets dry.The lava is about 5.5 miles from Anolia and about 1.7 miles from Eden Roc not lava danger for Eden Roc but fire another story.
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quote:
Originally posted by 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?
If all of Puna fell into the sea the Hui's bank would still have their hands out
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It's all part of living on top of the most active part of the island. It's probably a 50-50 chance it will keep flowing or stall and stop. Animating the maps so far, the flow isn't advancing very fast but it is filling in pretty quick. This is just 1 month, from Mar. 7 to Apr. 7:
http://i.imgur.com/Aitvt4E.gif
The fact it's broadening didn't happen for the previous K1 flow. Also, since the mechanism is magma flowing out a gap in the side of the splash cone, there is a steady feeding mechanism. The lava will be the last thing, it will be all the other indicators going on until lava starts emerging from the forest. There are days with different burning smells, there are a lot more particulates in the air, and it seems the burning so far is large enough that it's giving Kona a dark haze in the afternoon. All part of the majesty of the island.
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quote:
If all of Puna fell into the sea the Hui's bank would still have their hands out
That's why we all got such a great deal on this "cheap" real estate, right?
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Here's an image from the 1984 Mauna Loa eruption, by Katia Krafft.
http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~csav/krafft/Pele_Large.jpg
"Pele Dancing."
http://www.hilo.hawaii.edu/~csav/krafft/
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If you go to this link,there is a pretty neat picture of the 1984 eruption that puts Madam Pele in a different perspective.Scroll down to find the picture.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/mauna-loa.html
Where is that guy who is going to build a siphon to divert the flow ?
