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1 Ryan King  Sep 20, 2014 1:38:21pm

Tough living in paradise. Parts of Pahoa are still cleaning up from Hurricane Iselle.

2 prairiefire  Sep 20, 2014 7:23:04pm

I am so sorry about this! I hope your folks in Puna are ok. There is a Facebook group, “Puna United - We Stay!”. I don’t see how they can! Our folks outside, Pahoa, I’m worried about them. What are they going to do for water! They’re elderly. I don’t think they are taking it seriously enough.

3 BadExampleMan  Sep 20, 2014 9:08:11pm

My folks are well upslope, in Keaau, so they’re fine.

I don’t think water will be a problem. The county will truck it in to whoever needs it, but most everyone outside of the village center is on catchment anyway.

People do tend to be pretty blasé there but the thing about lava is it’s a pretty contained disaster. Anything directly in the path is fucked, but 100 feet to either side and you’re just toasty warm.

The worst thing for the area will be if Highway 130 is cut. The commuter traffic to and from Hilo is terrible on the best day. If everyone has to go around through HPP (or even worse if the flow goes all the way to the sea and the only way out is Chain of Craters Road up through Volcanoes National Park) it’s going to be a nightmare.

What they ought to do if they have to is make Railroad Avenue one-way inbound and Government Beach road one-way outbound in the mornings then switch for the evening commute. That might help. Some.

Of course, breakout flows are unpredictable. The whole thing could stop tomorrow and that’d be the end of it.

4 prairiefire  Sep 20, 2014 10:04:45pm

re: #3 BadExampleMan

I guess I just don’t like volcanos.

5 BadExampleMan  Sep 21, 2014 5:03:36am

Shhh…Madame Pele can hear you.

6 prairiefire  Sep 21, 2014 8:59:06am

re: #5 BadExampleMan

Shhh…Madame Pele can hear you.

Yeah, considering my luck when I am in HI, I think she already knows.


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