The Choom Gang is back together?
Posted on 05/20/2018 6:11:23 AM PDT by texas booster
HILO — A fiery river of molten rock was on a collision course Saturday night with Highway 137 and the Pacific Ocean, prompting officials to warn about hazardous volcanic gas known as “laze” if lava meets the sea.
The crossing, which hadn’t happened by press time, would effectively split lower Puna in two, leaving only Highway 130 as the escape route for residents from Opihikao to Kalapana. That route remained passable after state highway crews placed plates over ground cracks formed due to magma intrusion along Kilauea’s East Rift Zone.
Talmadge Magno, Hawaii County Civil Defense administrator, said there are few homes located near the anticipated crossing area, but officials were warning people up and down the road about the hazards. Mandatory evacuations are not expected unless Highway 130 is not an option for residents.
Highway 137, a scenic drive that winds along Puna’s rugged coast, known by some as “Red Road,” was mostly quiet Saturday, with a mix of vehicles belonging to evacuating residents and first responders seen driving by.
The flow was moving through the Malama Ki Forest Reserve and was expected to cross the road near MacKenzie beach park. By 6 p.m., it was about a half-mile away, according to Civil Defense, which issued a mandatory evacuation for Kamaili Road after the flow caused brush fires to threaten the area.
These 'smallish' eruptions put me in mind of the relief valve on a pressure cooker hissing off just a little bit of steam from the absolute bomb underneath it.
Btw, if CONUS ever runs short of vowels and/or diacriticals, we'll know where to go for more.
I think the big fear now is that the large scale of this eruption could accelerate the loosening of the Hilina Slump. Even if a small portion of the HIlina Slump falls into the ocean, the result would be a tsunami at a height of 90-100 feet hitting much of the eastern Pacific Ocean shoreline. Crescent City, Eureka, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey/Carmel, Santa Barbara, Ventura, much of the Los Angeles Basin, San Diego in the USA, and Tijuana, Ensenada, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Acapulco in Mexico would literally be wiped off the face of the Earth.
The Hilina Slump could let go, no doubt.
I think the concerns about massive tsunamis wiping out the entire Pacific Coast are overblown but there is a realistic chance someone gets really wet.
Thanks for the link. Very informative video
Any chance of Zuckerberg’s spread being covered under 50 feet of hot lava? That would be awesome. Bonus points if he’s home at the time.
“Any chance of Zuckerberg’s spread being covered under 50 feet of hot lava? “
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The Choom Gang is back together?
hahaha
Great Reminder!
Obammy is losing his Stash!
She is out there taking good lava videos with sound. Most of her instagram images are actually videos. You have to click onto them and see-———(in case you don’t know)
Yep, I watched most of ‘em .. thanks again.
Cue Seinfeld - That’s a shame...
Kind of like the curdles in spoiled milk.
“The Hilina Slump could let go, no doubt.”
MSNBC already has that story ready to go—blames Trump.
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