gaseouspartdeux

Sorry but BI here also. It is more complicated than that. The land underneath is what we call blue rock and even the largest dozers can't cut through. You have to literally dynamite the rock and blast a path, and the ocean is about 6 miles away. Second you are dealing with paoehoe flow. You see in pics the cooled rock on top of the flow, but under it is liquid lava fed from lava tubes created from the Pu'u O'o crater. Think of it like a syringe with the lava pool from the crater felling the syringe and then pressing the plunger with tremendous magma force. it will only fill up the ditch and spread out. Others have suggested spraying water to divert, but that won't work due to the same principle of the pressure I just stated. Pahoehoe flows in kalapana from the same caldera just flow under the ocean as easily as land bursting out of cooled lava.

It actually traveled 450 feet one day a few weeks back. It is going slow now due to the lava pool in the Pu'u O'o caldera dropping from a bout of low pressure. USGS said the pool should be back to normal in a few days and will probably push forward with another series of breakouts.

They said 85 National Guard was being activated but I didn't think it would Air Guard.

Yes I live on Big Isle and my daughters home is in the projected path in Hawaiian Beaches.

Edit: BTW I was speaking to an engineer on that power pole who was at the Hilton for a convention this last weekend. He told me from his view of that and Helco did not make the base porous enough for the heat to escape so it stayed too hot for too long under and melted the base.

Sista why didn't you tell us in /r/hawaii you were doing an AMA? I had to learn of it there by jason, and now your done for the night.

Yeah it is not moving much since the lava pool dropped from lack of pressure at Pu'u O'o but USGS from the Volcano observatory stated in a town meeting Saturday, That deflation's are normal and they expect the lava pool to rise again in a short while and continue feeding the tubes.

As one who dealt with my home covered by the flow in Kalapana back in 1988. I expect this flow to carry on. Kalapana went on for years and no one in Puna saw this rear flanking coming. Then again we didn't expect Pu'u O'o to develop either to begin with, and go on a wide path rampage for several decades.

Well that is one of two. This small flow I think will steer clear. It's the larger one further back that is not moving at all/ That might kick in is the one USGS said might hit. They already shit down the elementary school down there to be ready and moved them to Keaau school.