Helicopter caught an active volcano smiling at us.
Thought you were boasting about your great internet connectivity…
Brian
Maybe Pele is?
Meh, if I was in Hawaii, I’d be smiling too.
I visited Kilauea back in '91. Wish I were still there.
Kil-au-WAY-ah.
It’s doing it again: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/us/kilauea-volcano-hawaii-earthquakes/index.html
The footage is pretty spectacular, as footage of eruptions tends to be.
We were there in October, staying in a house a short walk from the Kapoho tide pools. Leilani Estates is pretty close to where we vacationed, and it’s ‘across the street’ from Lava Tree State Monument, which we visited.
Yesterday I received data from a business in Honolulu. I thanked my contact, and told her to enjoy the sunny day. (It was sunny in Seattle.) She said it was raining. I emailed back that I wondered if my boss would let me telecommute from Pahoa. She said, ‘Oh… You don’t want to be in Pahoa right now… signs show that Kilauea is going to erupt soon.’ Later, it did.
The big Woo wants his sacrifice.
I know that Mangosteen lives somewhere on that side of the big island, but I can’t recall if he’s anywhere near this activity.
I’ve seen some footage on youtube of big cracks running through forests, with lava percolating and splashing all along the crack. Scary stuff.
Thanks for your concern, but my home is many miles north of the lava activity and due to the terrain, the lava would flow into the ocean long before it would endanger the area where I live.
The large quake (6.9) that just happened in the lava area was felt at my home, but no damage was done.
I’d love to help, but my doctor says I can’t travel while I have this brain cloud.
Wife’s sister and Bro-n-law are in Hilo on the big island. She texts and messages about the shaking and the eruption (eruption doesn’t involve Hilo though near). B-n-L sends messages cursing having to pick up all the crap off the floor, again, again, again…
Some great videos of the shaking. One shows the tourists up at the volcano observatory when the big 6.9 quake hits. They are looking at the lava, fumes, and smoke from Kilauea’s lava lake in Halema’uma’u Crater and they have some very surprised:eek: expressions. The observatory has been closed along with the Military recreation camp at the summit. More for noxious gas than explosive danger.
Throwing my plans for an Hawaiian Dopefest up at the crater for a loop.
Well, shoots. I looked but missed this thread. My OP from what I thought was the first thread on the subject:
Magma Mia, Here I Flow Again, or the Kilauea Volcano
On the Big Island. It’s been erupting continuously since 1983, but a new flow started this past week. I’ve been a little busy and so expected to see a thread when I logged on this morning, but none detected. So here it is.
The new flow, in the Puna area, seems a little unusual in that it is underground rather than above, so it could pop up anywhere. As of last night, 10 fissures or vents had opened, spewing lava and gas, but only a couple are spewing now, I think.
The wife and I were on the Big Island just two months ago and drove through this very area. Old lava is everywhere, including close to the town of Pahoa, which was almost covered in 2014 until the lava stopped just short, destroying I think it was only a single home. Pahoa reminds me a lot of Taos. It would remind me a lot of Santa Fe if it were bigger. Just short of 1000 population, it’s home to lots of old hippies and New Agers.
All of Puna is home to such really, and there are a lot of, for want of a better word, kooks. Survivalists and various types who desire to live without electricity or other utilities or phones or Internet or TV or radios, no nuttin’, so there is some concern about getting the word to these people that something is up, not to mention that mandatory evacuations of some areas are ongoing. To this effect, they did turn on the sirens a few days ago.
The new flow is already being referred to as the Leilani Flow, since it’s popping up mainly in the Leilani Estates subdivision. I feel sorry for those losing all their property, but they did know this was a possibility when they bought into the place. I doubt many if any are insured, because the premiums would be just to much.
Hundreds of earthquakes associated with the new flow have been recorded this past week, the strongest being 6.9 early Friday afternoon. That one they said could be felt here on Oahu and east of here on Kauai. I felt nothing, but I was at the time on the phone with someone here in Honolulu just blocks away from me who started freaking out while we were talking, because she definitely felt it. She was on an 11th floor though, so that may have factored into it. Tall building swaying, that sort of thing.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was shut down on Friday but not due to the flow. The park is huge at 333,000 acres. Earthquake damage and the possibility of poisonous gases were the reasons, but they’re deciding whether to reopen this afternoon.
We’re supposed to be back on the Big Island in late July, with friends coming from Thailand to celebrate they’re 25th anniversary plus his 60th birthday. We’ll be staying this time in the village of Volcano, near the park entrance, and this is an area that is not in any danger whatsoever, located miles away from the present action. Two months ago, the wife and I stayed in Hilo, and that town and the airport there are also safe (as is the island’s other major airport in Kona).
Lots of good lava updates on Hawaii News Now.
I’d be surprised if it’s even possible to get insurance against lava damage when you live downhill from one of Earth’s most active volcanoes.
It’s a beautiful area (or at least was - lava flows tend to uglify the landscape) and the people who live there (I met some when visiting, a few years ago) seem philosophical about Pele’s moods. But you do hafta wonder about the wisdom of building streets and houses in an area whose fate, in the very near geological term, is almost inevitable obliteration.
When I visited 10 years ago, I heard locals talking about having to obtain volcano insurance to buy a house. Having just gone through Katrina, having appropriate insurance was/is a dear subject to me.
There is no “lava” insurance, but many people have standard home (fire) insurance. So if the lava comes near your house and starts a fire that eventually burns your home, then you can make an insurance claim to your insurer. This claim will be valid even if the lava covers your house after the fire. In other words, you better have the whole event on video or your insurer is going to dispute your claim.
Oh, I dunno. Lavascapes have their own stark beauty.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was reopened a couple of hours ago but with limited access. Visitors can still get to the Jaggar Museum, where the overlook into the Halemaumau Crater is. Over at Leilani Estates, 30 homes destroyed thus far, and lava today was spewing 230 feet into the air.
I don’t know about lava insurance to buy a house. I’m hearing a lot of residents have no insurance at all.
Neither dragons nor volcanoes make good neighbors.
What’s impressive is that schools in Hilo, not all that close, were shut down.
But I wonder how real estate agents showing these properties handled it.
“That? Oh, I never noticed it before. Yes it is pretty big, isn’t it?”