Off Island News Stories About the Lava Flow

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

It's interesting to read news stories written by people who live far away from the lava flow. Here's one that caught my eye today with it's title, as well as some of the comments in the Discussion section:

This Eruption Spells Gently Impending Doom For A Hawaiian Suburb

They have this totally chill attitude of, "Yup, my stuff's in an off-site storage container, I'm camping in the living room.

Locals there tell stories about hapless visitors who go hiking in the jungle and who are never seen again because they literally stepped through the thin crust and fell into the lava flow!

The locals are very spiritual and believe the volcano contains the spirit of the goddess known as Pele, and if Pele feels like taking out a town, who are they to say otherwise? Up until several hundred years ago, it was customary to make sacrifices to Pele in order to keep her anger in check.

Living there (Pahoa) is like living next to a ticking time bomb.
It's a scary place to live.

http://space.io9.com/this-eruption-spell...rtgonzalez

[punafish]

Gotta love that title, sounds like something CNN would come up with (except they'd include some doomsday-sounding music when introducing the title).

[EightFingers]

You have to admit, Pahoa IS a little scary.. That's part of its charm....

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

And if the guest wants to stay at the house, the house is there…

My dad lives about 15 minutes out of Pahoa and he says the region is emptying out. Stores closing, people picking up and leaving if they can. The air is smoky and he says his sweet little community is disappearing before his eyes.

State services are being withdrawn from the area, and there are talks of forced evacuations soon. My dad lives on an intentional community where they produce most of what they need, but he has stocked up on emergency rations just in case. He's not planning on going anywhere.

http://www.metafilter.com/143745/And-if-...e-is-there

[PaulW]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...lcano.html

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[VancouverIslander]

It's pretty funny - the article talks about Pu'u'o'o, but the pictures are Halema'uma'u in Kilauea Caldera.

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Originally posted by PaulW

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...lcano.html

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[pahoated]

And these are graphic examples of mainlander impressions by visiting and mutated interviews. Notice the British site equates the volcano to the dark, evil and devilish. And this one, unbelievable the extent this distortion has become on the west coast of the US.
"Up until several hundred years ago, it was customary to make sacrifices to Pele in order to keep her anger in check."
The sacrifices were ohelo berries. There is this stupid old wives tale fad going up and down the west coast now that the ancient Hawaiians sacrificed females virgins to the volcano. This concept actually came from a 1936 Dorothy Lamour movie called Jungle Princess. This like chain mail and Nigerian princes that need financial help, has become part of the social media foundation midway through the second decade of the 21st century.

"Mahalo nui Pele, 'ae noho ia moku 'aina" - kakahiaka oli

[malolo]

Opelu are yummy, but they're fish I'm afraid.
'Ohelo berries perhaps?

[Rob Tucker]

Today the flow is reentering the national news...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/red-hot-lava-fl...d=26420794

[leilaniguy]

Actually, that movie was "Bird of Paradise" with Dolores Del Rio and Joel Macrae, 1932.