Posted on 05/15/2018 10:52:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Fissure 17 is the longest and has been shooting lava like a fountain and "sending spatter more than 100 feet into the air," the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
It is more than a mile long but its advance has slowed to 20 yards per hour, slightly more than a quarter-mile a day.
Coombs said the fissure had diminished in intensity, but officials said activity can go up just as quickly as it goes down.
Still, many of the fissures are emitting "quite a bit" of sulfur dioxide.
Two new fissures are small with not much lava coming from them, she said.
CNN's Stephanie Elam said her heart started pounding as she approached one fissure.
"It sounded like hammers in the dryer," she said. "The molten rock was such a deep vibrant orange that it looked technically altered. When the sulfur dioxide hit my lungs once, it took my breath away."
The Hawaii State Department of Health is asking the general public to avoid any area with fissures because the gases emitted require special cartridge respirators.
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I can't work up a lot of sympathy for them.
More affordable by Hawaiian standards is eyepopping in flyover country. I checked out the property values and was still stunned by what places in Leilani Estates were going for. And the property taxes are very low. The state is now caring for hundreds, possibly thousands of people worst case scenario, and their property taxes won’t have paid for this. I’ve seen estimates of up to 50,000 people living in the east rift zone. Where is the state planning to relocate these people if the need arises? I’ll bet HI doesn’t have much low-income housing and that what they do have is full up with a waiting list.
The Feds might want to have some choice words with HI’s bureaucrats. I don’t think their state government has a plan to deal with this.
This is it Elizabeth. I’m comin’ to join ya.
From what I’ve been seeing and reading, mist if the folks who live in that zone are retirees, lower/low income who cannot afford to relocate on their own. HI should have addressed this by permitting the heck out if the area, requiring volcano insurance, etc, but didn’t as far as I can tell. Some folks have family and friends to help, but not all. And I really doubt, worst case, 50,000 people will.
So what the heck would HI do in the event of a large scale evac for God knows how long, and afterwards with any permanently displaced.
FWIW, I think HI was treating the east rift zone like ad hoc low income housing and now it might come back to bit the state on the a$$.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Leilani-Estates-Hawaii.html
If accurate, holy moly. Like I said, the state should’ve permitted the heck out of the area so that anyone living there would be required to carry insurance. If that made the area unaffordable for most, too dang bad.
Hmmm. Live near a volcano, then express concern over ash and lava ... Yeah. Makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is living near a volcano. It’s like living under a waterfall and complaining about a wet basement.
Hawaii is overrun with homeless folks.You cannot own land there unless you are part Hawaiian.
Then allowing tens of thousands to live in that area without planning for this eventuality was an awesomely stupid idea.
I’m thinking I can actually see a use for eminent domain. Fedzilla should seize the zone, buy out and relocate the inhabitants, and turn the place into a national park.
Just checked. The park next door is a national park. Just add to it.
So absolutely wrong! I owned land there and I’m Swedish. Don’t be like all these other freepers who make stupid and ignorant statements. Sheesh!
Please don’t take any dangerous risks.
” What is the impact on climate change”. Well where they measure CO2 concentration is pretty close. Might have some effect on that.
Why not? How much different is it than someone building in tornado alley or the folks that get hit by hurricanes almost every year?
A lot different. Tornados can hit you almost any place but with a very low risk. Living on an active volcano is a degree of stupidity that you expect from Hillary voters.
You can still be hit by a tornado while living on a volcano, but your property won't get covered in lava living in Kansas
When the sulfur dioxide hit my lungs once, it took my breath away.”
QUICK! SHUT DOWN MORE COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS TO STOP THIS POLLUTION!
No sarcasm tag needed. Climatologists conveniently leave out the effects of all the active volcanoes around the planet. Iceland alone has over 130 volcanoes, and 30 are still active with several other big ones expected to blow..........
I don't know how much longer he'll be there but am enjoying his efforts to bring us this view. The fissure's pretty quiet at the moment.
Well drat! He just shut down. Guess he's saving his batteries for when things get more active later today. Just check back and hope to find him streaming. That's what I'll do. :-)
Volcanic gases mixed with perspiration can form acid—be aware.
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