07-07-2011, 03:25 PM
The short version of what is going on:
After the floor of the crater collapsed, accompanied by curtains of fire outside of the crater, the crater has been slowly refilling. Most of that activity has been in the form of a perched lava lake that would fill, overflow, and refill (sort of a crater within the crater). The floor of the crater is now pretty close to the level it was before the floor collapsed, and that perched lake keeps doing its thing. For the last several days the whole floor of the crater has been rising, and now there is lava showing through cracks in the floor of the crater. The lowest side of Pu'u O'o is on the park side, and unless the bottom drops out again, my guess is the lava will bel spilling out of Pu'u O'o, and across VNP, within a week or two.
Anyone want to start picking times for when the lava will emerge from the crater and flow across the pali again? Guesses would be need to be which day, because the Volcano experts won't always post more accurate data.
My guess is Aug. 1, my father's birthday, Jerry Garcia's Birthday, and the due date for my first grandchild. A Leo should be born with fire!
Carol
After the floor of the crater collapsed, accompanied by curtains of fire outside of the crater, the crater has been slowly refilling. Most of that activity has been in the form of a perched lava lake that would fill, overflow, and refill (sort of a crater within the crater). The floor of the crater is now pretty close to the level it was before the floor collapsed, and that perched lake keeps doing its thing. For the last several days the whole floor of the crater has been rising, and now there is lava showing through cracks in the floor of the crater. The lowest side of Pu'u O'o is on the park side, and unless the bottom drops out again, my guess is the lava will bel spilling out of Pu'u O'o, and across VNP, within a week or two.
Anyone want to start picking times for when the lava will emerge from the crater and flow across the pali again? Guesses would be need to be which day, because the Volcano experts won't always post more accurate data.
My guess is Aug. 1, my father's birthday, Jerry Garcia's Birthday, and the due date for my first grandchild. A Leo should be born with fire!
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb