Two new fissures opened on Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday, piling lava as high as a four-story buil

[Demovictory9]

Two new fissures opened on Hawaii's Big Island on Saturday, piling lava as high as a four-story building
The 16th fissure is located in pasture land about a half-mile from the Puna Geothermal Venture plant
This week, plant workers removed 60,000 gallons of flammable liquids as a precaution, officials said
Another fissure, the 17th since the lava flows began May 3, opened about 6pm local time, venting gases
Video released on Saturday by the US Geological Survey shows footage of the Pu'u 'Ō'ō crater of Kīlauea
The crater's floor collapsed on April 30 after magma drained to the east along the east rift zone
More than 2,000 people have evacuated area, while 27 homes have been destroyed by Kilauea's eruption
President Donald Trump issued a presidential disaster declaration for Hawaii's Big Island Friday
Estimated cost to protect residents over the next 30 days is expected to exceed $2.9million, officials sai








As the area affected by Kilauea's eruption widens, Hawaii residents are racing to buy respirators to cope with the ash and toxic gases spewing from the volcano.

David Baxter, 54, an employee of Pahoa Auto Parts, said the shop was selling out of respirators as soon as they get in and had sold about 3,000 so far. The shop was all out on Saturday.

'We pretty much bought up every (respirator) in the state, and we are selling them at cost - actually, a slight loss,' said Baxter. 'We need to breathe.'

Even as the volcano continued to erupt, Hawaii Academy of Arts and Sciences, a charter middle and high school in Pahoa, will resume classes on Monday after being shut for a week.

A teacher at the school, Tiffany Edwards Hunts, who lives in the Big Island's Vacationland neighborhood, said she, her husband and two children - ages 10 and six- were readying to evacuate their home.

'My husband has been doing a good job of protecting them, but it is scary for kids,' she said.





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[Demovictory9]

1. interesting video of lava flow

[mountain grammy]

3. Wow.

[Control-Z]

2. Thank you for the thread, Demovictory9.

These pictures are amazing - and scary as hell.

[pazzyanne]

4. In the face of natural disasters,

we find out just how little power we have. Brings humility back to arrogant humans who think they have all the power. Praying for the people on the Big Island. May the damage be a minimal as possible to the land and its inhabitants, both people and animals.

[SunSeeker]

5. Wow.

[Cha]

6. Oh no! Poor people's homes

in the path of the wild lave spewing all over!

Mahalo, Demovictory

[Demovictory9]

7. Yes. It is sad

[raven mad]

8. They are welcome here. n/t

[RandomAccess]

9. There's some spectacular footage on YouTube

like this --

and this was pretty interesting too -

[BigmanPigman]

10. If that were me, you'd have to bleep out 99%

of the vocals.
The CNN weather guy explained volcanoes so that even a child could understand them so now I understand them too (ha ha). He said that there is a water table between the magma and the soil. With a volcano the stuff on the top of the volcano starts to erupt and lets some pressure off with little eruptions but that sends all of the old, hard rocks on the top and rim down into the center hole and it keeps going further down. That is where we are at now. When that forms a plug at the water table the pressure builds a lot and that is when you have a major eruption with boulders and lava and gas.

[uppityperson]

12. Bring poaching water to a simmer:

Bring poaching water to a simmer: While the bacon is cooking, bring a large saucepan two-thirds-filled with water to a boil, then add the vinegar.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. I saw Kilauea's lava flow when I was in Hawaii some years ago.

It was dumping molten lava into the ocean and I passed it on a boat in the middle of the night. The smell of sulphur was almost nauseating and looked like the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno.

I have a cousin living and teaching on the Big Island. Fortunately, she's way on the other side of the island and safe so far from the volcano.

[uppityperson]

15. It's so wild, having the ground crack, and out comes this super hot melted rock

Incredible.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. It was quite an experience.

Made me think of some very old and bad movie I'd seen where they pacified an erupting volcano by throwing in a virgin.

[OxQQme]

13. This video from 1990 describes what it's like