I’m guessing the people here are thankful they don’t have Gov. Jindal down in Hawaii. He would have put the kibosh on this wasteful “volcano monitoring” nonsense. Everyone knows we have to leave it up to the free market, not expensive government programs, to determine who survives exposure to sulfur dioxide gas and the occasional lava flow.
That being said, I hope everyone gets to a safe place and there aren’t any major catastrophes in the offing.
Holy crud. It looks like the flow has taken a new direction and at best a lot of people are going to be cut off.
Kilauea has been erupting since 1983, with varying degrees of intensity & damage. It is a pretty awesome sight. But as I read the reports, it has opened up some new fissures about 10-115 miles from the caldera in the eastern rift zone, and in a housing subdivision. Per those reports, the new fissures are appearing as crack in the streets, some with lava starting to emerge. This has the p;otential of being catastrophic for the residents of Leilani Estates.
Yikes. It’s easy for me to say sitting thousands of miles away but what did the retirement dream people expect living near a volcano that’s been erupting for decades?
We’re about 70 miles away and just had a 6.0 earthquake 121:33 local time and a 5.7 a little more than an hour ago.
Since this is apparently the End Times, these water bottles will come in handy. BTW the locale is right outside Branson MO…somehow that fits.
So help me w/ this: Drunk? Dimentia? Disorder in DSM?
Have friends on the n.shore of…Kaua’i …
they were just hammered w/ 30in of rain in 24hrs. ---- A MESS !
One side of the state to the other … hoo boy …
(I think I’ll stick to 4 seasons —
Watch the slimy underbelly of the disaster politics on this story. I’ll bet you an entire volcano full of coconut candy that President Frankenputz and his paper towel tossing rolling disaster are going to find a way to put the shiv to the people in Hawaii, because it’s the most solidly Democratic state in the Union (outside of DC which is not a state, sadly.) and because Obama was born there.
To the friends (my Ohana) I have on the Big Island, I say hang in there, better days are coming! Madame Pele has an attitude, but so do Native Hawaiians!