Six waterspouts in a row Due to intense heat of lava in Hawaii.
Posted on 05/03/2018 11:02:04 PM PDT by Simon Green
18th fissure.
Six waterspouts in a row Due to intense heat of lava in Hawaii.
Whoa. I hadn’t seen that one. Wow.
What’s really flummoxed me the last few days is how unprepared the PTB on the Big Island are to deal with this. You’d expect, after making the decision to allow people to build and live in the east rift zone, that bloody local and state gov’t would have a plan in place in case the sitch went pear-shaped. Sure doesn’t look like it to me.
I’ve looking at the history, and the property values, insurance issues... This is a large charlie foxtrot now, but it could get way bigger. I’m just stuned that the bureaucrats were so clueless and unprepared.
Per this link, 50,000 people live in the zone. Jeez louise...
http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow/db_330510/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=kt5hgCu8
They knew....the only preparedness was never More than evacuation....you’re not going to stop lava flows as this.
That’s surreal. You have a typical suburban scene surrounded by lava. I can almost picture somebody mowing their lawn like normal while a volcano happens all around them. I went to the Volcano National Park when I was on the Big Island. Seemed at the time quite the tourist trap and I joked that the steam you could see rising was manufactured just to create the effect of a volcano. But I guess it was real. Even if I had to pay $35 to get in and then go to the nearby Volcano winery where I had a case shipped back to the United States only to find out it was the absolutely worst wine I ever drank in my entire life. I think I paid almost $400 total between the case and then having it shipped separately.
Should have tried tomatoes. The tomatoes we had when we in Naples, Italy were the best we ever tasted. Grown around Mount Vesuvius.
N9, but you can do permits differently, mandate certain unsurance requirements, build infrastructure to better address mass evac needs, plan sheltering and other requirements better. Heck, if they’d allowed only rich folks who have the financial means to relocate to live there, they’d be better off.
BTW, reports of a 19th fissure, this one a few hundred yards long and hocking lava loogies....
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/latest-lava-fissure-prompts-evacuations-55131966
17 fissures, not 18 or 19. If it doesn’t spew, it doesn’t count. Or something along those lines.
https://mashable.com/2018/05/14/why-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-erupt-explosively/#ns_LE7WHrqq5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilina_Slump
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano/index.html
L.A would have 4 hrs
High sulfur dioxide levels from fissures prompt condition-red warning for residents
Hawaii Residents Continue to Seek Building Permits in High-Risk Zones
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