Pu'u O'o

[Guest]

If you're up, check out the webcam at Pu'u O'o

[EightFingers]

I look at it every day!
It'll be exciting when it fills up and starts overflowing!

[Guest]

When I posted kind of early in the AM (I'm on the Mainland right now), it was clear and there were two "eyes" again and what looked like hair flowing in back. It clouded up pretty soon after. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

[dobanion]

Don't think it's gonna get too much activity as long as the Thanksgiving Eve breakout keeps going.

I do like watching it trickle on the camera. I take a look before sunrise most mornings.

[Radiopeg]

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Originally posted by Mauka

. Sorry if I wasted anyone's time.

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Hey, it's good practice to look. I realized how the light made the scene look more three dimensional.

Life goes on, with you or without you.

[mdd7000]

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Originally posted by EightFingers

I look at it every day!
It'll be exciting when it fills up and starts overflowing!

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If that would happen, it would not be a "good" excitement!

[ericlp]

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/POcam/

[csgray]

The current "low" side of Pu'u O'o is on the National Park side, so the overflow would be into the Park, not communities, at least for a while.

Carol

[Kahunascott]

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Originally posted by csgray

The current "low" side of Pu'u O'o is on the National Park side, so the overflow would be into the Park, not communities, at least for a while.

Carol

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Not true. A few years ago the lava headed about 25% of the way to Pahoa, that's not exciting to me[V]

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it cost when it’s free...now here come the taxes.....

[csgray]

But that flow was not from the side of Pu'u O'o that now has a great big gap in it, so the lava will spill out the Park side first. The last flow that headed towards Pahoa was from the D vent which is on the Pahoa side of the base of Pu'u O'o.

Carol

edited to add: the HVO website has great photos of Pu'u O'o crater posted that really show the gap and where the lava will spill out.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html