Pics of lava advancing towards homes, Hawaii on Saturday
fissure opens in subdivision
Lava burns across the road in the Leilani Estates in Pahoa, Hawaii on Saturday as residents fled from the area
Knox's home is a few hundred yards from the lava flow and he is not evacuating. He hopes the lava will not take his home
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To the people of or 50th state.
Anyone who's familiar with the Mount St. Helen's eruption in Washington State (in the 1980's) remembers that nobody could have survived that because the top of the mountain blew off. If you're living on the side of a mountain with an erupting volcano, the lava would flow downhill and you wouldn't have much chance of outrunning it, especially if it happened suddenly.
But it seems at least some of these Hawaiian eruptions aren't coming out of a mountain peak. The flat ground is splitting open and lava flows up and out of the ground. So these types of eruptions are usually accompanied by ground shaking, deep rumbling noises, etc. Local residents who pay attention would have time to evacuate before their houses are engulfed. Still they lose everything, it's just like a wild forest fire.
Before evacuating to a friend's home late Friday, Gebbie -- a union carpenter -- took one last walk around the home he built over the past three years on an acre brimming with towering trees and fragrant tropical plants.
"My beautiful house -- gorgeous, custom home," he said. "Paid for. No mortgage, which is awesome. ... I took a walk around my house, videotaped my house and pretty much said goodbye."
Tears -- "lots of tears" -- streamed down his face.
For now, Gebbie said he will share a friend's home with three families that have been evacuated.
"Life is completely turned upside-down, and I think it's just starting to set in," he said.
"Now, it's trying to figure out what the future brings. ... My work. My job. Am I going to have to move to somewhere else on the island?"
Life on this part of the Big Island "might be forever changed," Gebbie said. And his life, too.
"I'd have to start over at age 56," he said. "That's concerning. I was five years away from retirement, with a house paid for. And retirement is nowhere near in the future now."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/us/kilauea-volcano-hawaii-homeowner/index.html
"People in Hawaii -- the Big Island -- have to deal with the lava," he said. "You know that when you come in. I knew that when I moved here. This was a gamble that everybody takes. Maybe I've lost."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/us/kilauea-volcano-hawaii-homeowner/index.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23809963/ns/us_news-life/t/lava-lovers-live-active-hawaiian-volcano/#.Wu7s3ogvzIU
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But some residents live with the boiling lava every day and revel in the notion that their homes and lives are subject to the whims of earth’s awesome underground forces.
The danger has become clearer in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a two-block-wide swath of lava burned through abandoned homes and reached the ocean. And the first gas explosion at Kilauea’s peak since 1924 scattered gravel onto a tourist lookout, road and trail before daybreak last week, injuring no one but spreading fear.
Olson and her scattered neighbors have built houses atop blasted land of hardened black crust where previous neighborhoods were destroyed by lava flows in 1990. Most get their power from solar panels, their water from the rain and some of their food from gardens planted between lava rocks. Until a new lava viewing area began drawing big crowds a few weeks ago, they lived in relative isolation.
“This is heaven on earth,” said Edmund Orian, who is building a house by hand out of lava rocks in Kalapana. “Living near a volcano keeps you aware that God is in control. If the lava comes, we can always move.”
And, all the others who had to leave Leilani Estates
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