Posted on 06/08/2018 9:54:01 AM PDT by C19fan
What many people seem to fail to realize is the downwind vog along Kona (where most of the resorts + 80% of the island population is located) is not only visually depressing, but unhealthy to boot. For those familiar with western states forest fires, while they too make any experience highly unpleasant and disrupt the quality of life, they're usually limited to late summer/early fall and don't last forever.
The human time scale is so tiny that I wonder if the last 200 hundred years of HI history was really just an anomaly. Perhaps the islands are somewhat actually unlivable, and it was only due to dormant activity that allowed relatively recent development and utilization. I mean, when you see how massive the Mauna Kea & Loa domes are, you gotta wonder just how much lava flow had to come out to build those peaks.
In comparison, Kilauea is just a small baby. For it to reach a similar size/shape would require untold amounts of lava with attendant dangerous levels of vog.
From what I’ve read, it’s state law that newly created land belongs to the state.
No, that issue was settled long ago for precisely that reason. State land.
Oh really? I’d like to know where. I have many friends on the Big Island, check the news there at least twice a day, used to live there myself, when Pu’u O’o started going off. New lava flows are pretty unfriendly. Do you live on the B.I.?
“Quick, lets put up some condos!”
Don’t forget a couple of strip malls and gas stations too!;)
We have property there and go all the time. They have been building on the old Kalapana flow. There’ll be a nice house sitting right in the middle of a black lava field. Don’t know if it’s the people who owned the land originally before the flow or what. They’re sparse but they’re there. First one I saw was about 8 or 9 years ago.
I’ve seen a couple of photos of houses built on top of that lava, where Royal Gardens or whatever it was called used to be. But it would be pretty hellish, so hot, and nothing will grow there for a long, long time.
But you told me...oh really? You’d like to know where. Now you tell me you’ve seen them too. Okaaaayyy.
From your comment it sounded as though many people were building on the lava.
So I asked about it.
I’ve seen photos only, of one or two built on lava. It would be pretty miserable to live on lava like that.
Update from a few days ago...
County Housing Agency delays approval of action plan for housing buyout program funds
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