# Lava eats home on Big Island

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 30, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626 "2010-07-30T22:34:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/1 "2010-07-30T22:34:59Z")

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Building a home near an active volcano maybe wasn’t the best idea.

> **[~ Pele Takes Gary’s Home ~](http://hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com/2010/07/pele-takes-garys-home.html)**
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> July 25th, 2010 ~ Pele Takes Gary’s Home ~ Pele ever so slowly moved through the forest bordering Gary’s beautiful home in Kalapana Gardens ...

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**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/2 "2010-07-30T22:36:53Z")

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So, if Pele eats your house, does that mean she owes you a favor?

'Cause I know a couple of choice spots that would really be improved by a volcano.

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**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/3 "2010-07-30T22:54:13Z")

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Someone forgot to sacrifice to Pele in time to save the house. It’s her protection racket.

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/4 "2010-07-30T22:56:17Z")

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Jeezopeet, **Mangosteen**! That wasn’t your place, was it?

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**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/5 "2010-07-30T23:19:07Z")

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> [@teela\_brown](#):
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> Jeezopeet, **Mangosteen**! That wasn’t your place, was it?

No, my place is quite far from there.

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**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lava-eats-home-on-big-island/548626/6 "2010-07-31T02:26:35Z")

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Well. . . I went to high school on the windward side in the 80s, and Kalapana and Kaimu are (were) not really “close” to the volcano, but rather the volcano came to them, and ate most of those subdivisions in 1989/90 and onwards. Hundreds of houses. Was this once new, or a random survivor from back then? I mean, we might just consider anyone building on the Big Island nuts by extension.