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Geeze, check it out now:
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php
Now they've figured out that instead of an earthquake this morning, it was actually an EXPLOSION at Halemaumau. It threw chunks over 75 acres and the biggest one was 35 cu feet!
Maybe its me, but it looks like the web cam is a little further back now too.
I'm backing up slowly and mixing up a nice gin martini.
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yep, dakine, I think what you said makes total sense. The scientists are under a lot of pressure: they shouldn't let people be taken by surprise, but they're not supposed to alarm people unnecessarily. I don't envy them. As a layman, like you, I have that gut feeling that it's going to happen. Too many signs.
Now if it does erupt at the summit again, would it just return to a lake of fire (just!) or where would it flow ... Is Volcano Village uphill?
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Latest photos from the Rim road showing debris.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html
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["Well, now...I don't see the lava as a "show to be seen" any more than I feel that way about looking through a telescope at a supernova or sitting on our lanai watching a beautiful sunset. We have a chance to see something up close and in person that most people will never have. That something is part of the wonder of nature.
I certainly take the risks quite seriously as I do when approaching the ocean and have no intention of doing anything overtly unsafe."]
Well, JonP, I guess it's a "beautiful thing" in an abstract sort of way. But we live under the shadow of the volcano, many of us. So what to you and thousands of thrill-seekers is an opportunity to see a geologic event up close is to us the very real danger of losing our homes and land. Perhaps it's similar to people on a tourist boat in the Bay of Naples circa 79 AD, thrilled to be able to be on site to view the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. But to the people of Pompeii it was a very different experience... Maybe "thrill-seeker" is too negative a word, sorry if it sounds disparaging... I cannot share your excitement...
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JonP welcome home!!! When do you and Carol arrive? Good to see you post.[
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This morning we ventured to the end of the road, told the officers that we were residents and traveled 100 yards further to park by the lua circle.
Pahoehoe had come East across the road and makai thru the kipuka. We could walk on the day-old Pahoehoe for about 200 feet before it became too hot to walk on. A small breakout behind me sent me back to the pavement. A new officer came by to have us more accurately define our claim of residency and showed us the way out.
We drove to Kaimu and started walking to the flow via the coastal Route. It was a somewhat rigorous 2 hour hike. We passed what we assumed was the county viewing site, finally arriving at the worlds newest beach and three seperate flows into the ocean...awesome.
After we had been there 20 minutes or so, several "officials" arrived at the viewing site and fervently beckoned us to come over to their location and began to admonish us for being in a "restricted area"; that we could be subject to arrest. I told them that there were no signs or indication that we had passed,to designate the area as off limits.
We left after taking our scoldings with an experience of a lifetime.
Mahalo Pele.
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Wow. That is quite the adventure!
I've been following the eruption through the news channels. I hope everyone is safe and sound! Hopefully it stays low key and that the little hiccup/explosion of rock is all Pele throws at you.
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The television and radio stations here on the Mainland are saying evacuations have already begun from Volcano, is there any truth to this? We are watching this closely as we haven't made a final decision regarding what area of Puna we will be moving to this summer.
Mahalo!
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maud gonne -- JonP does own property (a house in Hawaiian Shores Rec) here. He's no tourist seeking thrills. I know a great many people who live here in the shadow of the volcano who enjoy going to see it when the "show" is good.
Its all a matter of personal preference.
kawika -- no evacuations yet. Plans are being worked out should it be necessary. The risk is more from the SO2 than lava. Some people that are sensitive to the volcanic gases have chosen to stay somewhere else (with friends, etc) voluntarily.
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I'd like to say that DanielP's post describes exactly the kind of behavior that moves the County to establish stringent protocols for events like this. DanielP's disregard of the safety procedures established by the County and Police are why they've had to establish restrictive procedures: there are people who disregard the safety issues and endanger themselves. The County doesn't want to be held responsible for their injury or death.
