This really depresses me. Imagine the terror of the animals, their pain. 
More on this from the lady who filmed it:
So we’ll see what happens in 14 days.
That is the life of animals, my friend. And has been for millions of years. Very few die peacefully of old age.
And people are just another type of animal. Only recently has a peaceful death become somewhat common, much less the expectation, for most folks.
Well, it did at some point. 
As for leaving pets behind, I can only hope it was mainly a situation in which the humans suddenly and unexpectedly found themselves unable to go back. But the TV news showed a 15-year-old dog rescued. Poor thing. Medium-sized. They said a large bag of dog food was found left open nearby, so someone had time to do that. But the dog had not had water for days. Seemed to have a broken hip and maybe a broken tail, although it still wagged it at the rescuers. Some lady has adopted him at least temporarily.
If she wants the dog she should be allowed to keep it. The owner’s right was cut when they abandoned the animal.
Not to alarm anyone but the Steamboat Geyser at Yellowstone has started spouting off at a record-setting pace. It’s erupted eight times in the last three months, starting on March 15.
It’s a situation that University of Utah geologist, Jamie Farrell, calls “a really exciting time for the Norris Geyser Basin”.
Sleep well, everyone!
Technically, Yellowstone is always “erupting”, that’s where all those volcanic features come from. I don’t think I’ll be losing sleep over it.
Right. But this geyser doesn’t erupt (or spout or whatever geysers do) on the regular. Most of them don’t, actually. Only Old Faithful has any sort of consistency. Before this streak started in March, the Steamboat geyser hadn’t popped since September, 2014. Now it’s about once every 8 days.
Probably nothing.
After watching a volcano report on YouTube for the umpteenth day I had a sudden thought. Are there Japanese news teams there in force? It would seem they have an interest, living on a number of volcanos of their own.
It would seem to me to be a reason for a lack of interest. You don’t see Alaskan reporters flocking to cover snowfall in the lower 48.
Mrs. L.A.'s Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park shirt is on a chair on the deck. (It’s long-sleeve, so she can put it on if it gets too cold.) Since it’s from Hawaii, I want to pronounce it ‘vahl-can-oh-ees’.
Huh. I figured this bump would be about the olivine. (Profoundly common in the crust and mantle, but weathers quickly on the surface.)
When my parents bought a beach house on the Outer Banks in 1997, my father said to me, “Gee, I just hope we don’t get hit by a big hurricane”, I said, "Dad, it’s not ‘IF’ you get hit by a major hurricane, it’s a matter of ‘WHEN’ "…
Fucking tourists
*… people continue to illegally enter spaces cordoned off by Big Island authorities to gawk or snap a picture of lava flows on the Big Island.
In the past 10 days, about a dozen people have been cited for loitering in lava zones, some of whom are eligible to be disciplined under new guidelines … (DLNR says) they have arrested about 40 people for loitering in lava zones … Those caught and cited by DLNR officials can be fined up to $5,000 and given up to a year of jail time.*
I just got back from the Puna area where Kilauea is erupting. The National Guard has set up a check point on the highway that leads to the lava activity, but we were just waved through without questioning the first time at the check point. The second time we went through, we were questioned, but told them we were just going down the road to pick up some materials for a garage I am building. The security guard said, “ok” and let us through. He didn’t ask for any specifics as to exactly where we were going and why. (BTW we were really picking up materials.)
My point is that is seems that its pretty easy to get through the check point and head for the lava. Maybe it was my old truck (and not a shiny new rental car) that got me through, but I think that they should make it a little more difficult to get through the check point. Traffic was very light, so more questioning would not hold a line of cars up.
Can’t find the article but the eruption has exceeded the volume of previous (since we’ve been looking) flows. Somewhere around 145 million cubic yards (could have been meters).
They evacuated the exhibits/materials/files/etc… from Jaggar museum in the last few days. Crater collapse, though still a ways off, is creeping closer. That and earthquake damage - building cracks, loss of water, no electricity - prompted the action.
Official site: HVO / USGS - https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/activity_2018.html
Make sure Kilauea is the selected volcano.
Daily updates - been boring lately - and great photos/videos under the multimedia tab. One photo shows the road to the old overlook parking lot ending in the newly expanded crater. The parking lot went deep a few days ago.
Meters. I can’t find the Hawaii News Now story containing it, but Wednesday I quoted it to a friend coming here soon:
“The present flow has produced 145 million cubic meters of lava over 47 days compared with 81 million cu m over 88 days in 1955 and 122 million cu m over 37 days in 1960.”
That was three days ago, and it’s still going strong.